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Keys released her first studio album, Songs in A Minor, on June 5, 2001. It sold 235,000 copies in its first week and went on to sell over 11 million units worldwide, establishing Keys' popularity both outside and inside the United States, where she became the best-selling new artist and best-selling R&B artist of 2001. On October 22, 2002, Songs in A Minor was reissued as Remixed & Unplugged in A Minor, including eight remixes and seven unplugged versions of some of the songs from the original. The album led Keys to win five awards at the 44th 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.

Keys performed Donny Hathaway's 1973 song "Someday We'll All Be Free" at the America: A Tribute to Heroes televised benefit concert following the September 11 attacks. In 2002, Keys 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.
The album's first single, "Fallin'", gained radio airplay on many different radio formats and spent six weeks at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The album's second single, "A Woman's Worth", peaked at number three on the same chart.

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Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, pianist, cellist and actress. Born in Manhattan, in New York City, New York, she made her televised appearance on The Cosby Show in 1985. After graduating from Professional Performing Arts School at sixteen, Keys attended Columbia University before dropping out a month later to pursue her music career, signing a recording contract with Columbia. After ending her contract with the label, she signed to Arista Records until its disbandment. She was then signed to J Records, where she released her debut album.

Keys' debut album, Songs in A Minor, was a worldwide success, selling over 11 million copies worldwide. The album earned Keys five Grammy Awards in 2002, including Best New Artist and Song of the Year for "Fallin'". Her second studio album, The Diary of Alicia Keys, was released in 2003 and quickly became another great success worldwide, selling nine million copies and garnered Keys four Grammy Awards in 2005. After the successful Unplugged release in 2005, Keys released in 2007 her third studio album, As I Am, which sold nearly four million copies in the United States.

Keys has sold over thirty million albums worldwide and has won numerous awards, including eleven Grammy Awards, seventeen Billboard Music Awards, and five American Music Awards. Together with her previous releases, she established herself as one of the best-selling artists of her time. more