It has been nearly 10 years since 2012’s Girl on Fire landed her a significant hit single and chart-topping album. At 40, Keys may no longer be the hottest contemporary female singer-songwriter on the planet. Pop music relentlessly seeks out the next big thing. ![]() The two performed Bob Dylan’s Make You Feel My Love together (with Keys on piano) at Keys’s annual charity ball in 2008, when Adele’s star was still rising. And if this reminds you of anyone, then you shouldn’t be surprised to learn that Adele once told Rolling Stone that hearing Alicia Keys as a youngster was “life defining”. ![]() Her 2021 debut album, Songs in A Minor, sold 12 million copies and saw her hailed as the saviour of soul music. Her breakout single (Fallin’) was a huge global smash, a heartbreakingly romantic piano ballad with a preternatural, octave-busting vocal that touched Aretha Franklin heights, with songwriting that drew comparisons to Carole King. She burst onto the world stage aged just 19.
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