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No One by Alicia Keys

Biografie van de kunstenaar Alicia Keys


Alicia Augello Cook Born January 25 1981 Better Known By Her Stage Name Alicia Keys Is An American Recording Artist Musician And Actress. She Was Raised By A Single Mother In The Hell's Kitchen Area Of Manhattan In New York City New York United States. At Age Seven Keys Began To Play Classical Music On The Piano. She Attended Professional Performing Arts School And Graduated At 16 As Valedictorian. She Later Attended Columbia University Before Dropping Out To Pursue Her Music Career. Keys Released Her Debut Album With J Records Having Had Previous Record Deals First With Columbia And Then Arista Records.
Throughout Her Career Keys Has Won Numerous Awards Including 14 Grammy Awards And Has Sold Over 75 Million Records Worldwide. Billboard Magazine Named Her The Top R&B Artist Of The 2000–2009 Decade Establishing Herself As One Of The Best-Selling Artists Of Her Time. In 2010 VH1 Included Keys On Its List Of The 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time. Keys Released Her First Studio Album Songs In A Minor In June 2001. It Debuted At Number One On The Billboard 200 And Sold 236 000 Copies In Its First Week. The Album Sold Over 6.2 Million Copies In The United States Where It Was Certified Six Times Platinum By The Recording Industry Association Of America RIAA . It Went On To Sell Over 13 Million Copies Worldwide Establishing Keys' Popularity Both Inside And Outside The United States Where She Became The Best-Selling New Artist And Best-Selling R&B Artist Of 2001. The Album's Lead Single Fallin' Spent Six Weeks At Number One On The Billboard Hot 100. The Album's Second Single A Woman's Worth Peaked At Number Three On The Same Chart. The Following Year The Album Was Reissued As Remixed & Unplugged In A Minor Which Included Eight Remixes And Seven Unplugged Versions Of The Songs From The Original. Songs In A Minor Led Keys To Win Five Awards At The 2002 Grammy Awards Song Of The Year Best Female R&B Vocal Performance And Best R&B Song For Fallin' Best New Artist And Best R&B Album Fallin' Was Also Nominated For Record Of The Year. Keys Became The Second Female Solo Artist To Win Five Grammy Awards In A Single Night Following Lauryn Hill At The 41st Grammy Awards. That Same Year She Collaborated With Christina Aguilera For The Latter's Upcoming Album Stripped On A Song Entitled Impossible Which Keys Wrote Co-Produced And Provided With Background Vocals. During The Early 2000s Keys Also Made Small Cameos In Television Series Charmed And American Dreams. Keys Followed Up Her Debut With The Diary Of Alicia Keys Which Was Released In December 2003. The Album Debuted At Number One On The Billboard 200 Selling Over 618 000 Copies Its First Week Of Release Becoming The Largest First-Week Sales For A Female Artist In 2003. It Sold 4.4 Million Copies In The United States And Was Certified Four Times Platinum By The RIAA. It Sold Nine Million Copies Worldwide Becoming The Sixth Biggest-Selling Album By A Female Artist And The Second Biggest-Selling Album By A Female R&B Artist. The Singles You Don't Know My Name And If I Ain't Got You Both Reached The Top Five Of The Billboard Hot 100 Chart And The Third Single Diary Entered The Top Ten. The Fourth Single Karma Was Less Successful On The Billboard Hot 100 Peaking At Number 20. If I Ain't Got You Became The First Single By A Female Artist To Remain On The Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart For Over A Year. Keys Won Best R&B Video For If I Ain't Got You At The 2004 MTV Video Music Awards She Performed The Song And Higher Ground With Lenny Kravitz And Stevie Wonder. Later That Year Keys Released Her Novel Tears For Water Songbook Of Poems And Lyrics A Collection Of Unreleased Poems From Her Journals And Lyrics. The Title Derived From One Of Her Poems "Love And Chains" From The Line "I Don't Mind Drinking My Tears For Water." She Said The Title Is The Foundation Of Her Writing Because "everything I Have Ever Written Has Stemmed From My Tears Of Joy Of Pain Of Sorrow Of Depression Even Of Question". The Book Sold Over US$500 000 And Keys Made The New York Times Bestseller List In 2005. The Following Year She Won A Second Consecutive Award For Best R&B Video At The MTV Video Music Awards For The Video Karma. Keys Performed If I Ain't Got You And Then Joined Jamie Foxx And Quincy Jones In A Rendition Of Georgia On My Mind The Hoagy Carmichael Song Made Famous By Ray Charles In 1960 At The 2005 Grammy Awards. That Evening She Won Four Grammy Awards Best Female R&B Vocal Performance For If I Ain't Got You Best R&B Song For You Don't Know My Name Best R&B Album For The Diary Of Alicia Keys And Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals" For My Boo With Usher. Keys Performed And Taped Her Installment Of The MTV Unplugged Series In July 2005 At The Brooklyn Academy Of Music. During This Session Keys Added New Arrangements To Her Original Songs And Performed A Few Choice Covers. The Session Was Released On CD And DVD In October 2005. Simply Titled Unplugged The Album Debuted At Number One On The U.S. Billboard 200 Chart With 196 000 Units Sold In Its First Week Of Release. The Album Sold One Million Copies In The United States Where It Was Certified Platinum By The RIAA And Two Million Copies Worldwide. The Debut Of Keys' Unplugged Was The Highest For An MTV Unplugged Album Since Nirvana's 1994 MTV Unplugged In New York And The First Unplugged By A Female Artist To Debut At Number One. The Album's First Single Unbreakable Peaked At Number 34 On The Billboard Hot 100 And Number Four On The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. It Remained At Number One On The Billboard Hot Adult R&B Airplay For 11 Weeks. Keys Opened A Recording Studio In Long Island New York Called The Oven Studios Which She Co-Owns With Her Production And Songwriting Partner Kerry "Krucial" Brothers. The Studio Was Designed By Renowned Studio Architect John Storyk Of WSDG Designer Of Jimi Hendrix' Electric Lady Studios. Keys And Brothers Are The Co-Founders Of KrucialKeys Enterprises A Production And Songwriting Team Who Assisted Keys In Creating Her Albums As Well As Create Music For Other Artists. In 2006 Keys Won Three NAACP Image Awards Including Outstanding Female Artist And Outstanding Song For Unbreakable. She Also Received The Starlight Award By The Songwriters Hall Of Fame. In October 2006 She Played The Voice Of Mommy Martian In The "Mission To Mars" Episode Of The Children's Television Series The Backyardigans In Which She Sang An Original Song Almost Everything Is Boinga Here. That Same Year Keys Nearly Suffered A Mental Breakdown. Her Grandmother Had Died And Her Family Was Heavily Dependent On Her. She Felt She Needed To "escape" And Went To Egypt For Three Weeks. She Explained "That Trip Was Definitely The Most Crucial Thing I've Ever Done For Myself In My Life To Date. It Was A Very Difficult Time That I Was Dealing With And It Just Came To The Point Where I Really Needed To—basically I Just Needed To Run Away Honestly. And I Needed To Get As Far Away As Possible." Keys Released Her Third Studio Album As I Am In November 2007 It Debuted At Number One On The Billboard 200 Selling 742 000 Copies In Its First Week. It Gained Keys Her Largest First Week Sales Of Her Career And Became Her Fourth Consecutive Number One Album Tying Her With Britney Spears For The Most Consecutive Number-One Debuts On The Billboard 200 By A Female Artist. The Week Became The Second Largest Sales Week Of 2007 And The Largest Sales Week For A Female Solo Artist Since Singer Norah Jones' Album Feels Like Home In 2004. The Album Has Sold Nearly Four Million Copies In The United States And Has Been Certified Three Times Platinum By The RIAA. It Has Sold Nearly Six Million Copies Worldwide. Keys Received Five Nominations For As I Am At The 2008 American Music Award And Ultimately Won Two. The Album's Lead Single No One Peaked At Number One On The Billboard Hot 100 And Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Becoming Keys' Third And Fifth Number-One Single On Each Chart Respectively. The Album's Second Single Like You'll Never See Me Again Was Released In Late 2007 And Peaked At Number 12 On The Billboard Hot 100 And Number One On The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. The Album's Third Single Teenage Love Affair Peaked At Number Three On The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart. She Released The Fourth Single Superwoman Which Peaked At Number 82 On The Billboard Hot 100 And Number 12 On The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. No One Earned Keys The Awards For Best Female R&B Vocal Performance And Best R&B Song At The 2008 Grammy Awards. Keys Opened The Ceremony Singing Frank Sinatra's 1950s Song Learnin' The Blues As A "duet" With Archival Footage Of Sinatra In Video And No One With John Mayer Later In The Show. Keys Also Won Best Female R&B Artist During The Show. Keys Along With The White Stripes' Guitarist And Lead Vocalist Jack White Recorded The Theme Song To Quantum Of Solace The First Duet In Bond Soundtrack History. In 2008 Keys Was Ranked In At Number 80 The Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists. She Also Received Three Nominations At The 2009 Grammy Awards And Won Best Female R&B Vocal Performance For Superwoman. In An Interview With Blender Magazine Keys Allegedly Said "'Gangsta Rap' Was A Ploy To Convince Black People To Kill Each Other 'gangsta Rap' Didn't Exist" And Went On To Say That It Was Created By "the Government". The Magazine Also Claimed She Said That Tupac Shakur And The Notorious B.I.G. Were "essentially Assassinated Their Beefs Stoked By The Government And The Media To Stop Another Great Black Leader From Existing". Keys Later Wrote A Statement Clarifying The Issues And Saying Her Words Were Misinterpreted. Later That Year Keys Was Criticized By Anti-Smoking Campaigners After Billboard Posters For Her Forthcoming Concerts In Indonesia Featured A Logo For The A Mild Cigarette Brand Sponsored By Tobacco Firm Philip Morris. She Apologized After Discovering That The Concert Was Sponsored By The Firm And Asked For "corrective Actions". In Response The Company Withdrew Its Sponsorship. Keys Collaborated With Record Producer Swizz Beatz To Write And Produce Million Dollar Bill For Whitney Houston's Seventh Studio Album I Look To You. Keys Had Approached Clive Davis For Permission To Submit A Song For The Album. Keys Also Collaborated With Recording Artist Jay-Z On The Song Empire State Of Mind From His 2009 Album The Blueprint 3. The Song Topped The Billboard Hot 100 And Became Her Fourth Number-One Single On That Chart. The Following Month The American Society Of Composers Authors And Publishers Honored Keys With The Golden Note Award An Award Given To Artists "who Have Achieved Extraordinary Career Milestones". She Collaborated With Spanish Recording Artist Alejandro Sanz For Looking For Paradise Which Topped The Hot Latin Songs Chart. Keys Released Her Fourth Studio Album The Element Of Freedom In December 2009. It Debuted At Number Two On The Billboard 200 Selling 417 000 Copies In Its First Week. As Part Of The Promotional Drive For The Album She Performed At The Cayman Island Jazz Festival On December 5 The Final Night Of The Three Day Festival Which Will Be Broadcast On Black Entertainment Television BET . The Album's Lead Single Doesn't Mean Anything Has Peaked At Number 60 On The Billboard Hot 100. Keys Was Ranked As The Top R&B Recording Artist Of The 2000–2009 Decade By Billboard Magazine And Ranked At Number Five As Artist Of The Decade While Her Song No One Was Ranked At Number Six On The Magazine's Songs Of The Decade. In The United Kingdom The Element Of Freedom Became Keys' First Album To Top The UK Albums Chart. According To Songfacts Keys Said Regarding The Title Of Her Fifth Studio Album Girl On Fire. "Before Making This Record In Some Ways I Felt Like A Lion Locked In A Cage. I Felt Like A Girl Misunderstood That No One Really Knew I Felt Like It Was Time To Stop Making Excuses For Any Part Of My Life That I Wanted To Change. Once I Made That Choice I Became A Girl On Fire The Lion Broke Free!!" The Title Track Will Be Made Available On ITunes And Radio On September 4 2012. In May 2009 Swizz Beatz Announced That He And Keys Were Romantically Involved And In May 2010 A Representative For Keys And Swizz Beatz Confirmed That They Were Engaged And Expecting A Child Together. During The Time Of The 2010 FIFA World Cup The Couple Took Part Of A Union And Had The Unborn Child Blessed In A Zulu Ceremony Which Took Place In The Illovo Suburb Of South Africa. Keys And Swizz Beatz Were Married On The French Island Of Corsica On July 31 2010. On October 14 2010 Keys Gave Birth To A Son Egypt Daoud Ibarr Dean In New York City.
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Frogtoon Muziek - Nummerinformatie: No One

"No One" Is A Song By American R&B-Soul Singer Alicia Keys From Her Third Studio Album As I Am 2007 . Written And Produced By Keys Kerry Brothers Jr. And George D. Harry And Released As The Album's Lead Single In September 2007 This Is Overall Keys' Most Successful Song Worldwide To Date Having Topped Several Singles Charts Including The Billboard Hot 100 For Five Consecutive Weeks And The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs For Ten Consecutive Weeks. "No One" Was Ranked At Number Forty-Two On The Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs And Number Fourteen On The Top Billboard Hot 100 R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. The Song Won Best Female R&B Vocal Performance And Best R&B Song At The 2008 Grammy Awards On February 10 2008. During The Ceremony Keys Performed It In A Duet With John Mayer. "No One" Is Also The Most Listened Song On U.S. Radio Of 2008 With 3.08 Billion Listeners. Keys Told MTV News Canada That The Song "is Really Talking About The Way That In Relationships The Way That So Many Things Are Around You All The Time To Try To Distract You. And Even Though People May Talk And Say Whatever They May Want To Say But Then No One Can Get In The Way Of This." The Song Was First Heard In August 2007 After Keys Included A Clip Of The Song In A Newsletter On Her Official Website And Fan Club. It Was Released Officially On September 10 2007 And Its Radio Premiere Was On Atlanta's WVEE On August 29. Keys Performed A Medley Of "No One" With George Michael's "Freedom! '90" At The 2007 MTV Video Music Awards On September 9. Remixes Of The Song Featuring Lil' Kim Cassidy Damian Marley Junior Reid Beenie Man Barbee And Kanye West Exist. It Was Ranked At Number Three On The Recap Of The 10 Best Songs Of 2007 By Entertainment Weekly. With Only One Full Day Of Airplay "No One" Debuted At Number Sixty-Five On The U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart The Week Of September 8 2007. Seven Weeks Later It Reached The Top Position For Ten Weeks—becoming Keys' Fifth Number-One Single On The Chart—before Being Knocked Out By Her Own Song "Like You'll Never See Me Again" The First Charting Week Of 2008. The Song Initially Debuted At Number Fifteen On The Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles The Week Of September 15 2007 And Managed To Jump To The Billboard Hot 100 At Number Seventy-One The Following Week Without The Benefit Of Download Sales. The Following Week It Rose To Number Fifteen Because Of Digital Downloads And Reached The Top Spot The Charting Week Of December 1 2007 Staying Atop For Five Weeks Preventing Timbaland And OneRepublic's Hit "Apologize" From Reaching The Summit. It Is Keys' First Solo Single To Reach Number One On The Hot 100 Since Her Debut Single "Fallin'" 2001 And Her Third Single To Date To Top The Chart. The Song's Success Marked Keys' Return To The Top Twenty Of The Billboard Hot 100 In Three Years Her Last Appearance Occurred With The Number-Twenty Entry "Karma". Furthermore "No One" Went On To Top Eleven Other Billboard Charts The Hot 100 Airplay For Fourteen Weeks In A Row The Longest Run Atop The Chart Since Mariah Carey's 2005 Hit "We Belong Together" Spent Sixteen Weeks At Number One The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay The Hot Adult R&B Airplay The Pop 100 The Pop 100 Airplay The Top 40 Mainstream The Rhythmic Top 40 The Hot Digital Songs The Hot Digital Tracks The Hot RingMasters And The Hot Videoclip Tracks. The Song Was Ranked Number Three On The Top Hot 100 Hits Of 2008. "No One" Was A Massive Success In Europe Reaching Number Two On The Composite European Hot 100 Singles As Well As Topping The Singles Chart In Spain Switzerland And Hungary While Charting Inside The Top Five In France Germany Italy Portugal The Netherlands Belgium Austria Sweden Slovakia And Turkey And The Top Ten In The United Kingdom Where The Single Became Keys' First Solo Top Ten Hit Since "Fallin'" Peaking At Number Six And Sold In Excess Of 200 000 Copies Ireland Denmark And Norway. It Also Charted Highly In Oceania Spending Three Consecutive Weeks At Number Three In Australia And Six Non-Consecutive Weeks At Number Two In New Zealand. In The Week Between October 22 And 25 "No One" Gained 14.3% In Radio Airplay And Audience Impressions Which Marks The Single At Number One. The Song's Music Video Directed By Justin Francis Premiered On BET On September 24 2007 It Debuted On 106 And Park At Number Ten The Following Day And Has Sinced Peaked At Number One. It Premiered On Yahoo! Music On September 25 At Number Five And Peaked At Number One And It Premiered On Total Request Live On October 4 And Peaked At Number One. It Debuted On VH1's VSpot Top 20 Countdown At Number Three Peaking At Number One. The Video Was Ranked At Number Twenty-Two On VH1's Top 40 Videos Of 2007. The Video For "No One" Consists Of Four Settings The First One Shows Keys Lying On A Chair In An Empty Room The Second One Is A Musical Instrument-Decorated Room In Which Keys Sings Accompanied By A Keyboard In The Third One Keys Is Initially Alone Playing The Piano On A Rainy Street And She Later Finds Herself Surrounded With Dozens Of People In The Fourth And Final One Keys Is In A Blue-Lit Nightclub. The Video Ends With A Gear Divided Into Four Fractions Each One Featuring A Previously Shown Setting And With Keys Lying On The Chair In The Same Room Shown At The Very Beginning Of The Video. As Of February 2009 The Official Video Alone Has Had Over Seventy-Seven Million Views On YouTube And Peaks At Number Five On The Website's Rank Of All-Time Most Viewed Videos As Well As Number Four On The Rank Of All-Time Most Viewed Videos In The Music Category. "No One" Was Used In The Theatrical Trailer For The 2008 Romantic Comedy Film 27 Dresses As Well As In The Ugly Betty Episode "Burning Questions" Originally Aired On May 1 2008. Felica Barton Sang The Song In Her Group On The March 3rd Show Of American Idol. 'No One' Was The Lead Single To Be Released From Alicia's 3rd Album And Her Most Successful Release Since 'Fallin'' In 2001 Reaching No.6 In The UK Charts Late Last Year. 'No One' Secured Ms Keys Two Awards At This Years Grammys And A No.1 In The US Billboard Charts.

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