200-436: Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys , is an American singer and songwriter. A classically trained pianist, Keys began composing songs when she was the age of 12 and was signed by Columbia Records at the age of 15. After disputes with the label, she signed with J Records to release her debut studio album, Songs in A Minor (2001). Met with critical acclaim and commercial success,
400-669: A $ 500,000 investment which subsequently earned the company some $ 32 million in profits. In October 1958, Columbia, in time for the Christmas season, put out a series of "Greatest Hits" packages by such artists as Johnny Mathis, Doris Day, Guy Mitchell, Johnnie Ray, Jo Stafford , Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, Frankie Laine and the Four Lads ; months later, it put out another Mathis compilation as well as that of Marty Robbins . Only Mathis' compilations charted, since there were only 25 positions on Billboard ' s album charts at
600-649: A Broken Heart ", was released in November and peaked at number twenty-seven on the Hot 100 and number two on the Hot R&;B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The album's third single " Put It in a Love Song " featured recording artist Beyoncé . In February 2010, Keys released the fourth single, " Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down " peaked at fifty-five on the Hot 100 and seventy-six on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. In May, " Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready) " featuring rapper Drake
800-642: 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
1000-603: A brilliant blue laminated product with matching label. Royal Blue issues, made from late 1932 through 1935, are particularly popular with collectors for their rarity and musical interest. The Columbia plant in Oakland, California, did Columbia's pressings for sale west of the Rockies and continued using the Royal Blue material for these until about mid-1936. As southern gospel developed, Columbia had astutely sought to record
1200-414: A catalog of blues and jazz artists, including Bessie Smith in their 14000-D Race series. Columbia also had a successful "Hillbilly" series (15000-D) with Dan Hornsby among others. By 1927, the "Sweet Jazz" bandleader Guy Lombardo also joined Columbia and recorded forty five 78 rpm's by 1931. In 1928, Paul Whiteman , the nation's most popular orchestra leader, left Victor to record for Columbia. During
1400-513: A day, learning the Suzuki method and playing composers such as Beethoven , Mozart , Chopin , and Satie . She was particularly drawn to "blue, dark, shadowy" and melancholic compositions, as well as the passionate romanticism of "blue composers" like Chopin. Inspired by the film Philadelphia , Keys wrote her first song about her departed grandfather on her piano by age 12. The scene in the film in which Tom Hanks 's character listens to opera on
1600-577: A difficult schedule between university and working in the studio into the morning, compounding stress and a distant relationship with her mother. She often stayed away from home, and wrote some of the most "depressing" poems of her life during this period. Keys decided to drop out of college after a month to pursue music full-time. Columbia Records had recruited a team of songwriters, producers and stylists to work on Keys and her music. They wanted Keys to submit to their creative and image decisions. Keys said they were not receptive to her contributions and being
1800-468: A distribution deal with Philips Records to market Columbia recordings outside North America. EMI continued to distribute Okeh and later Epic label recordings until 1968. EMI also continued to distribute Columbia recordings in Australia and New Zealand. American Columbia was not happy with EMI's reluctance to introduce long playing records. Columbia became the most successful non-rock record company in
2000-594: A female artist to remain on the Billboard Hot R&;B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for over a year. Keys also collaborated with recording artist Usher on the song " My Boo " from his 2004 album, Confessions (Special Edition) . The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for three weeks, became her first number-one single on the Hot 100 since 2001's " Fallin' ". Keys won Best R&B Video for "If I Ain't Got You" at
2200-475: A high executive with RCA Victor from 1932 thru 1938, was asked to comment on ARC. "The chief value was that the record industry had come back tremendously, especially in the case of two other record companies; and the American Record Company, with all its facilities, had not, so far as I could learn, increased its business in any degree at all in the previous six years." On December 17, 1938,
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#17327915379022400-581: A letter to Oprah asking her to have Keys, Jill Scott , and India.Arie perform on her show to promote new women in music. Oprah booked Keys the day she heard her song "Fallin ' " , her debut single. Keys performed the song on Oprah's show the week prior to the release of her debut album. "Fallin ' ", released as a single in April, went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 , and stayed atop the chart for six consecutive weeks. Ebony magazine wrote that at
2600-554: A molded brown wax record, to use up old stock. Columbia introduced black wax records in 1903. According to one source, they continued to mold brown waxes until 1904 with the highest number being 32601, "Heinie", which is a duet by Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan . The molded brown waxes may have been sold to Sears for distribution (possibly under Sears' Oxford trademark for Columbia products). Columbia began selling disc records , invented and patented by Victor Talking Machine Company's Emile Berliner , and phonographs in addition to
2800-422: A musician and music creator. While Keys worked on her songs, Columbia executives attempted to change her material; they wanted her to sing and have others create the music, forcing big-name producers on her who demanded she also write with people with whom she was not comfortable. She would go into sessions already prepared with music she had composed, but the label would dismiss her work in favor of their vision. "It
3000-494: A new artist." Edge introduced Keys to Arista's then-president, Clive Davis, in 1998. Robinson and Keys, with Davis's help, were able to negotiate out of the Columbia contract and she signed to Arista Records in late 1998. Keys was also able to leave with the music she had created. Davis gave Keys the creative freedom and control she wanted, and encouraged her to be herself. Keys said of Davis's instinct: "he knows which artists are
3200-765: A performer and person. Keys contributed her songs "Rock wit U" and "Rear View Mirror" to the soundtracks of the films Shaft (2000) and Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001). In 2000, Davis was ousted from Arista , and the release of Keys's album was put on hold. Later that year, Davis formed J Records and immediately signed Keys to the label. "He didn't try to divert me to something else," Keys said on following Davis to his new label. He understood that she wants to be herself and not "made into what somebody else thinks I should be." Keys played small shows across America, performed at industry showcases for months and then on television. Davis thought "pop stations might feel she's too urban. Urban might feel she's too traditional", and as he felt Keys
3400-847: A press release, "The American Record Co. tag is discarded". Columbia Records was actually reborn on May 22, 1939, as "Columbia Recording Corporation, Inc.", a Delaware corporation. The NYDOS shows a later incorporation date of April 4, 1947. This corporation changed its name to Columbia Records, Inc. on October 11, 1954, and reverted to Columbia Recording Corporation on January 2, 1962. The Columbia trademark remained under Columbia Records, Inc. of Delaware, filed back in 1929. Brothers Ike and Leon Levy owned stakes in CBS. In February 1939, NYC Studios moved from ARC headquarters at 1776 Broadway, to 799 7th Avenue, 6th&7th flrs, New York City ("Studio A"). Corporate offices, studio and Pressing Plant would also continue at 1473 Barnum Avenue, Bridgeport, CT. John Hammond
3600-435: A record player notably affected Keys, who "never showed emotion very well". After seeing the film, Keys, "for the first time, could express how [she] felt through the music." Classical piano totally helped me to be a better songwriter and a better musician ... I knew the fundamentals of music. And I understood how to put things together and pull it together and change it. The dedication that it took to study classical music
3800-458: A set of CDs devoted to Columbia's Broadway albums. Over the years, Columbia joined Decca and RCA Victor in specializing in albums devoted to Broadway musicals with members of the original casts. In the 1950s, Columbia also began releasing LPs drawn from the soundtracks of popular films. Many album covers put together by Columbia and the other major labels were put together using one piece of cardboard (folded in half) and two paper "slicks", one for
4000-527: A skilled modernist composer himself, Columbia cemented contracts with jazz composer/musicians Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus , while Macero became a significant figure in Miles Davis career from an explorer of the art of modal jazz from Davis' sextets 1958 album Milestones to innovator and avatar of the marriage of jazz with rock and electronic sounds—commonly known as jazz fusion . In 1954, Columbia embraced small-group modern jazz by signing of
4200-561: A song for Whitney Houston 's sixth studio album I Look to You . She subsequently co-wrote and produced the single " Million Dollar Bill " with record producer Swizz Beatz . Months later, she was featured on rapper Jay-Z 's song " Empire State of Mind " which was the lead single from his eleventh studio album The Blueprint 3 . The song was a commercial and critical success, topping the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her fourth number-one song on that chart. Additionally, it won Grammy Awards for ' Best Rap/Sung Collaboration and ' Best Rap Song '
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#17327915379024400-425: A strong woman my mother was, and made me want to be strong like her. Probably, it was better for me this way." Keys and her mother lived in a one-bedroom apartment. Her mother often worked three jobs to provide for Keys, who "learned how to survive" from her mother's example of tenacity and self-reliance. I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in
4600-501: A stylus (the legs) on a record (the eye); however, the "eye" also subtly refers to CBS's main business in television , and that division's iconic Eye logo. Columbia continued to use the "notes and mike" logo on record labels and even used a promo label showing both logos until the "notes and mike" was phased out (along with the 78 in the US) in 1958. In Canada, Columbia 78s were pressed with the "Walking Eye" logo in 1958. The original Walking Eye
4800-586: A subsidiary of Sony Music Group , the American division of multinational conglomerate Sony . Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the recorded sound business, and the second major company to produce records. From 1961 to 1991, its recordings were released outside North America under the name CBS Records to avoid confusion with EMI 's Columbia Graphophone Company . Columbia is one of Sony Music's four flagship record labels: Epic Records , and former longtime rivals, RCA Records and Arista Records as
5000-413: A time when the economy was bad enough that many of them would not have had the opportunity to enter a studio and play real jazz (a handful of these in this special series were issued in the US). Hammond's work for Columbia was interrupted by his service during World War II , and he had less involvement with the music scene during the bebop era, but when he returned to work as a talent scout for Columbia in
5200-407: A while, I realized what it provided me – focus, the ability to pay attention for a long enough period of time to make progress; the work ethic; the actual knowledge of music, that then unlocked the ability to write my own music, put my own chords and things I heard in my own head to different lyrics that I maybe felt, and I never, ever had to wait for anybody to write something for me. Keys enrolled in
5400-592: A young age, Keys struggled with self-esteem issues, hiding little by little when her differences made her vulnerable to judgment, and later uninvited sexual attention. Living in the rough neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, she was, from an early age, regularly exposed to street violence, drugs, prostitution, and subjected to sexual propositions in the sex trade - and crime-riddled area. "I saw a variety of people growing up, and lifestyles, lows and highs. I think it makes you realize right away what you want and what you don't want," Keys said. Keys recalled feeling fearful early on of
5600-651: Is a big reason why I have anything in this life I think. ... [It] was a big influence on me. It opened a lot of doors because it separated me from the rest. [...] And it did help me structure my songs. —Keys Keys's mother had encouraged her to participate in different extracurricular activities, including music, dance, theater, and gymnastics, so she could "find her muse". Her extracurricular activities gave her focus and drive, and helped keep her out of trouble. Keys remained so occupied with her various pursuits that she experienced her first burnout before adolescence. Before her 13th birthday, she expressed to her mother that she
5800-631: Is a list of awards and nominations received by Alicia Keys , an American singer-songwriter, record producer, television personality and entrepreneur. With sixteen wins, she is the fourth most awarded female artist at the Grammy Awards . She also won nine Billboard Music Awards , four MTV VMA , three MTV EMA , eighteen NAACP Image Awards and eleven Soul Train Music Awards . Active in the music industry field since 2000s, Keys published her debut album, Songs in A Minor in 2001. The project
6000-547: Is a testament to her desire (and patience) to create a project that most reflects her sensibilities as a 20-year-old woman and as a musical, cultural, and racial hybrid." Songs in A Minor debuted on the Billboard 200 chart at number one, selling 236,000 in its first week at retail. In its second week, word of mouth and exposure from television performances was so significant that record stores requested another 450,000 copies. The album went on to sell over 6.2 million copies in
6200-510: Is also acclaimed for her humanitarian work, philanthropy, and activism. She co-founded the nonprofit HIV / AIDS -fighting organization Keep a Child Alive in 2003, for which she serves as Global Ambassador. Alicia Augello Cook was born on January 25, 1981, in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan , New York City. She is the only child of Teresa Augello, who was a paralegal and part-time actress, and one of three children of Craig Cook, who
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6400-606: Is an annual advertising award that recognizes innovation and creative excellence in advertising , design , and communication . The CMT Music Awards is an annual ceremony dedicated exclusively to honor country music videos. Keys has received one nomination. The Critics' Choice Movie Awards are bestowed annually by the Broadcast Film Critics Association to honor the finest in cinematic achievement. Keys has received one nomination. The Directors Guild of America Awards are issued annually by
6600-570: Is an annual awards ceremony to recognize jazz musicians. Keys has won one award from three nominations. The BET Hip Hop Awards is an award show celebrating hip-hop performers, producers and music video directors. Keys has won two awards. BET Honors is an award show, which celebrates the lives and achievements of African American luminaries. Keys has won one award. The BET Pre-Awards celebrate African Americans and other minorities in music, acting, sports, and other fields of entertainment. These annually presented awards are presented before
6800-560: 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 three million copies in
7000-609: 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 eight 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 album's lead single, " You Don't Know My Name ", peaked at number three on
7200-493: 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
7400-490: The Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for eight consecutive weeks, her first Top 10 single in both charts since 2002's " A Woman's Worth ". The album's second single, " If I Ain't Got You ", was released in February 2004 and peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for six weeks. The album's third single, " Diary ", peaked at number 8 on
7600-556: The 50th Annual Grammy Awards . The following studio album The Element of Freedom (2009) was promoted by " Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready) " which won a Soul Train Music Award . The same year she was featured on Jay-Z 's song " Empire State of Mind ", which won the Grammy Awards for Best Rap Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration , a MTV VMA and a BET Award . In 2012 she published fifth studio album Girl on Fire winner of
7800-527: The Australian Record Company (founded in 1936) including Coronet Records , one of the leading Australian independent recording and distribution companies of the day. The CBS Coronet label was replaced by the CBS label with the 'walking eye' logo in 1963. ARC continued trading under that name until the late 1970s when it formally changed its business name to CBS Australia. List of awards and nominations received by Alicia Keys This
8000-670: 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. The album's second and final single, " Every Little Bit Hurts ", was released in January 2006, it failed to enter the U.S. charts. 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
8200-399: The Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, being their third consecutive Top 10 single in both charts. The album's fourth and final single, " Karma ", which peaked at number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 17 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, first release to fail to achieve top ten status on both charts. "If I Ain't Got You" became the first single by
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8400-539: The Directors Guild of America . Keys has been nominated once. The Drama League Awards honor distinguished productions and performances both on Broadway and Off-Broadway The DVF Awards are held to recognize and support women who are using their resources, commitment and visibility to transform the lives of other women. Keys has received one award. The ECHO Awards are an annual German music award ceremony that recognizes outstanding achievement in
8600-521: The Eastman School of Music in the 1930s.) Miller quickly signed up Mercury's biggest artist at the time, Frankie Laine , and discovered several of the decade's biggest recording stars including Tony Bennett , Mahalia Jackson , Jimmy Boyd , Guy Mitchell (whose stage surname was taken from Miller's first name), Johnnie Ray , The Four Lads , Rosemary Clooney , Kay Lande , Ray Conniff , Jerry Vale and Johnny Mathis . He also oversaw many of
8800-663: The Metropolitan Opera in New York to make a highly touted series of Grand Opera Records. These stars included Marcella Sembrich , Lillian Nordica , Antonio Scotti , and Edouard de Reszke , but the technical standard of Columbia's Grand Opera series was not considered to be as high as the results achieved with opera singers during the pre–World War I period by Victor, Edison, England's His Master's Voice (The Gramophone Company Ltd.) or Italy's Fonotipia Records . After an abortive attempt in 1904 to manufacture discs with
9000-546: The Primetime Emmy Awards and News and Documentary Emmy Awards as executive producer and host at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards . In 2024 her Broadway jukebox musical Hell's Kitchen won a Drama League Awards for Outstanding Production of a Musical and received a nomination at the Tony Award for Best Musical . For her original song " Another Way to Die " for James Bond film Quantum of Solace she
9200-662: The Professional Performing Arts School at the age of 12, where she took music, dance, and theater classes and majored in choir. In her preteen years, Keys and her bass-playing friend formed their first group, though neither "knew too much about how pop songs worked". Keys would continue singing, writing songs, and performing in musical groups throughout junior high and high school. She became an accomplished pianist; according to some sources, after her classical-music teacher had nothing left to teach her, she began studying jazz at age 14 (this claim, however,
9400-697: The United Kingdom . Keys has received one nomination. Keys has received one nomination. The Brit Awards are the British Phonographic Industry 's annual pop music awards. Keys has been nominated ten times. The Capital FM Awards is an awards show in the United Kingdom held by the radio station Capital that recognizes music releases from local and international artists. Keys has received one nomination. Keys has received two nominations. The Clio Awards
9600-682: The Westminster Choir conducted by Leonard Bernstein (recorded on December 31, 1956, on 1 ⁄ 2 -inch tape, using an Ampex 300-3 machine). Bernstein combined the Nativity and Resurrection sections, and ended the performance with the death of Christ. As with RCA Victor, most of the early stereo recordings were of classical artists, including the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter , Dimitri Mitropoulos , and Leonard Bernstein , and
9800-472: The electronic dance music industry. Keys has received three nominations. The Italian Music Awards are held to recognize the achievements in the Italian music industry both by domestic and international artists. Keys has been nominated twice. The Kora Awards are music awards given annually for musical achievement in sub-Saharan Africa . Keys has won two awards. La Chanson de l'année ( Song of
10000-418: The music industry . Keys has won one award from two nominations. The Edison Music Award is an annual Dutch music prize, awarded for outstanding achievements in the music industry. Keys has won one award from six nominations. The Essence Awards celebrate the achievements of prominent African Americans. Keys has received one award. The Ethnic Multicultural Media Academy promote diversity within
10200-553: The swing music era, Hammond had already been of great help to Columbia in 1932–33. Through his involvement in the UK music paper Melody Maker , Hammond had arranged for the struggling US Columbia label to provide recordings for the UK Columbia label, mostly using the specially created Columbia W-265000 matrix series. Hammond recorded Fletcher Henderson , Benny Carter , Joe Venuti , Roger Wolfe Kahn and other jazz performers during
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#173279153790210400-681: 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 starred in the feature The Secret Life of Bees . Her role earned her a nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture at the NAACP Image Awards . 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 '
10600-680: The "Magic Notes" logo—a pair of sixteenth notes (semiquavers) in a circle—both in the United States and overseas (where this particular logo would never substantially change). In 1908, Columbia ceased the recording and manufacturing of wax cylinder records after arranging to issue celluloid cylinder records made by the Indestructible Record Company of Albany, New York , as "Columbia Indestructible Records". In July 1912, Columbia decided to concentrate exclusively on disc records and ended production of cylinder phonographs, although Indestructible cylinders continued to be sold under
10800-405: The "animal instinct" she witnessed, and eventually feeling "high" due to recurrent harassment. Her experiences in the streets had led her to carry a homemade knife for protection. She became very wary, emotionally guarded, and she began wearing gender-neutral clothing and what would become her trademark cornrows . Keys explained that she is grateful for growing up where she did as it prepared her for
11000-422: The "total package", and took her under his wing. By this time, Keys had already written two of the songs that she would later include on her debut album: "Butterflyz" and "The Life". Robinson wanted Keys to be informed and prepared for the music industry, so he took her everywhere with him, including all the meetings with attorneys and negotiations with record labels, while the teenager often became disgruntled with
11200-618: The "wrong vision" for her. "They didn't want me to be an individual, didn't really care," Keys concluded. "They just wanted to put me in a box." Control over her creative process was "everything" to Keys. Keys had wanted to leave Columbia since they began "completely disrespecting [her] musical creativity". Leaving Columbia was "a hell of a fight," she recalled. "Out of spite, they were threatening to keep everything I'd created even though they hated it. I thought I'd have to start over again just to get out, but I didn't care." Keys said in 2001: "It's been one trial, one test of confidence and faith after
11400-546: The 10th anniversary of the introduction of the LP, in 1958 Columbia initiated the "Adventures in Sound" series that showcased music from around the world. As far as the catalog numbering system went, there was no correlation between mono and stereo versions for the first few years. Columbia started a new CS 8000 series for pop stereo releases, and figuring the stereo releases as some sort of specialty niche records, didn't bother to link
11600-491: The 1931 Brunswick lease agreement, so they discontinued Vocalion in June 1940, and fired up Okeh. By July, it was releasing new Hillbilly platters by Gene Autry and Bob Wills, and re-issuing past Vocalion discs, using the same catalogue numbers with a leading zero added. When a January 1941 audit found that not more than 150,000 Brunswick records had sold during the period from December 1, 1939, through December 31, 1940, control of
11800-509: The 1950s after it lured producer and bandleader Mitch Miller away from the Mercury label in 1950. Despite its many successes, Columbia remained largely uninvolved in the teenage rock'n'roll market until the mid-1960s, despite a handful of crossover hits, largely because of Miller's frequently expressed loathing of rock'n'roll. (Miller was a classically trained oboist who had been a friend of Columbia executive Goddard Lieberson since their days at
12000-436: The 1950s, his career proved to be of incalculable historical and cultural importance – the list of superstar artists he would discover and sign to Columbia over the course of his career included Charlie Christian , Count Basie , Teddy Wilson , Pete Seeger , Bob Dylan , Leonard Cohen , Aretha Franklin , Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Ray Vaughan , and in the early 1960s Hammond would also exert an enormous cultural effect on
12200-438: The 1956 Newport Jazz Festival , which proved a boost to a bandleader whose career had stalled. Under new head producer George Avakian , Columbia became the most vital label to the general public's appreciation and understanding (with help from Avakian's prolific and perceptive play-by-play liner notes) of jazz, releasing a series of LP's by Louis Armstrong , but also signing to long-term contracts Dave Brubeck and Miles Davis ,
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#173279153790212400-443: The 2002 novel of the same name , in which she co-starred alongside Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans . The Nanny Diaries had a hit moderate performance at the box office, earning only $ 44,638,886 worldwide during its theatrical run. She also guest starred as herself in the " One Man Is an Island " episode of the drama series Cane . Keys released her third studio album, As I Am , in November 2007; it debuted at number one on
12600-565: The 2004 MTV Video Music Awards ; she performed the song and " Higher Ground " with Lenny Kravitz and Stevie Wonder . While attending the Cannes Film Festival in May 2004, it was announced that Keys intended to make her film debut in a biopic about biracial piano prodigy Philippa Schuyler . The film was to be co-produced by Halle Berry and Marc Platt . September 25, Alicia Keys headlined The Great Wall Concert , initially called
12800-535: The ARC, including the Columbia label in the U.S., was acquired by William S. Paley of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. for US$ 700,000, ten times the price ARC paid in 1934, which would later spark lawsuits by disgruntled shareholders. (Columbia Records had originally co-founded CBS in 1927 along with New York talent agent Arthur Judson , but soon cashed out of the partnership leaving only
13000-517: The BET Awards and broadcast live on BET. Keys has won two awards. Black Girls Rock! is an award show, which honors and empowers women of color around the world in many different fields. Keys has received one award. The Black Reel Awards annually recognize and celebrate the achievements of black people in feature, independent and television films. Keys has received four nominations. The BT Digital Music Awards are held annually in
13200-471: The Columbia Records name because EMI operated a separate record label by that name, Columbia Graphophone Company , outside North America. This was the result of legal maneuvers which led to the creation of EMI in the early 1930s. While this happened, starting in late 1961, both the mono and the stereo labels of domestic Columbia releases started carrying a small "CBS" at the top of the label. This
13400-572: The Columbia label for a few more years. Columbia was split into two companies, one to make records and one to make players. Columbia Phonograph relocated to Bridgeport, Connecticut , and Edward Easton went with it. Eventually it was renamed the Dictaphone Corporation . In late 1922, Columbia entered receivership. The company was bought by its UK subsidiary, the Columbia Graphophone Company , in 1925 and
13600-534: The Columbia name. During the 1940s, Frank Sinatra recorded for Columbia and helped to substantially boost the company's revenue. Sinatra recorded over 200 songs for Columbia which include his most popular songs from his early years. Other popular artists on Columbia at this time included Benny Goodman (signed from RCA Victor in 1939), Count Basie , Jimmie Lunceford (both signed from Decca), Eddy Duchin , Ray Noble (both moved to Columbia from Brunswick), Kate Smith , Mildred Bailey , and Will Bradley . In 1947,
13800-563: The Dave Brubeck Quartet, which resulted in the release of the on-location, best-selling jazz album (up to this time), Jazz Goes to College . Contemporaneously with Columbia's first release of modern jazz by a small group, which was also the Brubeck Quartet's debut on the label, was a Time magazine cover story on the phenomenon of Brubeck's success on college campuses. The humble Dave Brubeck demurred, saying that
14000-521: The Grammy Award for Best R&B Album while the song of the same name won an NAACP Image Award . The sixth album Here (2016) was promoted by short-form film Alicia Keys: The Gospel recognized with a Clio Awards . The following two studio albums were Alicia (2020), which won the Grammy Award for Best Immersive Audio Album , and Keys (2021). Keys also received nominations at
14200-572: The Gramophone Company (HMV) was now a wholly owned subsidiary of Victor, and Columbia in America was a subsidiary of UK Columbia, Victor now technically owned its largest rival in the US. To avoid antitrust legislation, EMI had to sell off its US Columbia operation, which continued to release pressings of matrices made in the UK. In December, 1931, the U.S. Columbia Phonograph Company, Inc.
14400-407: The Hot 100 and number three on Billboard ' s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs; becoming her second top ten single on both charts. Released in June, " How Come You Don't Call Me ", Keys's cover of Prince 's song, served as the album's third single, peaking at 59 on the Hot 100. The album's fourth single " Girlfriend " was released in the United Kingdom where it peaked at 82. The following year, the album
14600-412: The Hot 100 since 2004's "My Boo" and becoming Keys's 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 for seven consecutive weeks. From October 27, 2007, when "No One" reached No. 1, through February 16, 2008,
14800-526: The Hot 100, and fourteen on Billboard ' s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. 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 "No One" was ranked at number six on the magazine's top songs of the decade. In the United Kingdom, The Element of Freedom became Keys's first album to top the UK Albums Chart . The album's second single, " Try Sleeping with
15000-574: The Journals of MaMa Mae and LeeLee . Keys gave birth to her second child, son Genesis Ali Dean, on December 27, 2014. In 2015 Keys performed at the BET Awards 2015 with The Weeknd . Keys played the character Skye Summers in the second season of Empire . She first appeared in the episode "Sinned Against", which aired November 25, 2015. Columbia Records Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment ,
15200-442: The LP record was officially demonstrated, Columbia offered to share the new speed with rival RCA Victor, who initially rejected it and soon introduced their new competitive 45 RPM record. When it became clear that the LP was the preferred format for classical recordings, RCA Victor announced that the company would begin releasing its own LPs in January 1950. This was quickly followed by the other major American labels. Decca Records in
15400-648: 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
15600-605: The Past 25 Years. She has received numerous accolades in her career, including 16 Grammy Awards, 17 NAACP Image Awards , 12 ASCAP Awards , and an award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and National Music Publishers Association . VH1 included her on their 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and 100 Greatest Women in Music lists, while Time has named her in their 100 list of most influential people in 2005 and 2017. Keys
15800-657: The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy , who also recorded an abridged Messiah for Columbia. Some sessions were made with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, an ensemble drawn from leading New York musicians, which had first made recordings with Sir Thomas Beecham in 1949 in Columbia's New York City studios. George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra recorded mostly for Epic. When Epic dropped classical music,
16000-804: The Songwriter of the Year in 2005 and the Golden Note Award in 2009, while the BET awarded Keys with the Artis of Decade Award in 2010. The American Music Awards are held annually to award the outstanding achievements of American artists in the record industry . Keys has won five awards from sixteen nominations. The ASCAP Awards are held annually by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers . The ASCAP Pop Music Awards honors
16200-581: The Starlight Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame . In October 2006, she played the voice of Mommy Martian in the " Mission to Mars " episode of Nick Jr.’s CGI-animated children's television series The Backyardigans , in which she sang an original song, "Almost Everything Is Boinga Here". That same year, Keys nearly had 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
16400-542: The U.K. was the first to release LPs in Europe, beginning in 1949. EMI would not fully adopt the LP format until 1955. An "original cast recording" of Rodgers & Hammerstein 's South Pacific with Ezio Pinza and Mary Martin was recorded in 1949. Both conventional metal masters and tape were used in the sessions in New York City. For some reason, the taped version was not used until Sony released it as part of
16600-535: 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's 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
16800-479: The U.S. Columbia material was issued in Australia and New Zealand on the CBS Coronet label. In the same year, former Columbia A&R manager Goddard Lieberson was promoted to President of the entire CBS recording division, which included Columbia and Epic, as well as the company's various international divisions and licensees. Under his leadership the corporation's music division soon overtook RCA Victor as
17000-455: The US. Her fifth album, Girl on Fire (2012), was her fourth non-consecutive album to peak the Billboard 200, and was supported by its lead single of the same name ; her sixth album, Here (2016), peaked at number two on the chart. Her seventh and eighth studio albums, Alicia (2020) and Keys (2021), spawned the singles " Show Me Love " (featuring Miguel ), " Underdog ", " Lala " and " Best of Me ". Her ninth, Santa Baby (2022),
17200-430: The US. Keys' first live album, Unplugged (2005), spawned the single " Unbreakable " and made her the first female artist to have an MTV Unplugged project debut atop the Billboard 200 . Her third album, As I Am (2007), sold seven million units worldwide and yielded her third Billboard Hot 100-number one single, " No One ." In 2007, Keys made her film debut in the action-thriller Smokin' Aces , and performed
17400-490: The United Kingdom. In May 2010, a representative for Keys and Swizz Beatz confirmed that they were engaged and expecting a child together. Keys and Beatz had a wedding celebration near the Mediterranean Sea on July 31, 2010. On October 14, 2010, Keys gave birth to their first son, in New York City. She recorded a song together with Eve called " Speechless ", dedicated to her son. In June 2011, Songs in A Minor
17600-497: The United States and 12 million internationally. It was certified six times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America . Songs in A Minor established Keys's popularity both inside and outside of the United States where she became the best-selling new artist and R&B artist of the year. The album's second single, " A Woman's Worth ", was released in February 2002 and peaked at seven on
17800-436: The United States and has been certified three times Platinum by the RIAA . It has sold five 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 for five consecutive weeks and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for ten consecutive weeks, became her first number-one single on
18000-620: The Wall of Hope concert, on the Northern Gate Juyongguan section of the Great Wall of China , commemorating the 20th anniversary of the wall's restoration project that was part of a series of benefit concerts. Later that year, Keys released her book 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
18200-612: The Worm' sold 2.5 million copies. In 1929, Ben Selvin became house bandleader and A. & R. director. Other favorites in the Viva-tonal era included Ruth Etting , Paul Whiteman, Fletcher Henderson , Ipana Troubadours (a Sam Lanin group), and Ted Lewis . Columbia used acoustic recording for "budget label" pop product well into 1929 on the labels Harmony, Velvet Tone (both general purpose labels), and Diva (sold exclusively at W.T. Grant stores). When Edison Records folded, Columbia
18400-653: The Year in English) is a French awards ceremony. Keys has received one nomination. The Lucille Lortel Awards recognize excellence in New York Off-Broadway theatre. The Awards are named for Lucille Lortel , an actress and theater producer, and have been awarded since 1986. Keys has received one nomination. The Meteor Music Awards are the national music awards of Ireland, established by mobile telecommunications company Meteor . Keys has received one nomination. The MOBO Awards are held annually in
18600-780: The Year , Record of the Year , Song of the Year and Best New Artist , she won the last two. The Guinness World Records is a reference book published annually, listing world records and national records, both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. The Hungarian Music Awards are handed out annually by the Hungarian Recording Industry Association . Keys has received two nominations. The IFPIHKG Awards are held annually in Hong Kong to honor every year's best-selling artists. Keys has received one award. The International Dance Music Awards recognizes achievements in
18800-427: The Year. The same year she collaborated with Usher on " My Boo " which won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals . In 2005 she published her live album Unplugged promoted by the single " Unbreakable ", which won two NAACP Image Awards . The third studio album As I Am (2008) won two American Music Awards while the songs " No One " and " Superwoman " won three awards at
19000-425: The achievements of the known and unknown black personalities within entertainment, film, fashion, television and arts. Keys has received three nominations. The Billboard Music Awards are held to honor artists for commercial performance in the United States based on record charts published by Billboard . Keys has won nine awards from twenty-seven nominations. The Billboard Latin Music Awards reflect
19200-668: The aegis of the Mull Singing Convention of the Air sponsored on radio (and later television) by southern gospel broadcaster J. Bazzel Mull (1914–2006). In 1935, Herbert M. Greenspon, an 18-year-old shipping clerk, led a committee to organize the first trade union shop at the main manufacturing factory in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Elected as president of the Congress of Industrial Unions (CIO) local, Greenspon negotiated
19400-549: The age of four, Keys appeared on The Cosby Show as Maria, one of Rudy's slumber-party friends. In 1994, manager Jeff Robinson met 13-year-old Keys, who participated in his brother's youth organization called Teens in Motion. Robinson's brother had been giving Keys vocal lessons in Harlem . His brother had talked to him about Keys and advised him to go see her, but Robinson shrugged it off as he had "heard that story 1,000 times". At
19600-470: The album "started coming together", and she composed and recorded most of the songs that would appear on her album. "Finally, I knew how to structure my feelings into something that made sense, something that can translate to people", Keys. "That was a changing point. My confidence was up, way up." The different experience reinvigorated Keys and her music. While the album was nearly completed, Columbia's management changed and more creative differences emerged with
19800-556: The album sold over 12 million copies worldwide and won five awards at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards . It contained the Billboard Hot 100 -number one single " Fallin' ." Her second album, The Diary of Alicia Keys (2003), was met with continued success, selling eight million units worldwide and spawning the singles " You Don't Know My Name ", " If I Ain't Got You ", and " Diary " (featuring Tony! Toni! Toné! ). Its release earned an additional four Grammy Awards. Her 2004 duet with Usher , " My Boo ", became her second number-one single in
20000-636: The artists associated with the emerging genre; for example, Columbia was the only company to record Charles Davis Tillman . Most fortuitously for Columbia in its Depression Era financial woes, in 1936 the company entered into an exclusive recording contract with the Chuck Wagon Gang , a hugely successful relationship which continued into the 1970s. A signature group of southern gospel, the Chuck Wagon Gang became Columbia's bestsellers with at least 37 million records, many of them through
20200-548: The blues-R&B label, and the exclusive outlet for Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys , a phenomenal mid-1930s Western Swing band, which drew 10,000+ customers nightly to dance. Columbia was added in mid-1932, relegated to slower sellers such as the Hawaiian music of Andy Iona , the Irving Mills stable of artists and songs, and the still unknown Benny Goodman . It tried a marketing ploy, the Columbia "Royal Blue Record",
20400-540: The bottom to the back and "pasted over" by the back slick. Conversely, for a mono album, they moved the slick up so the mono information showed at the bottom, and the stereo information was pasted over. Soon, other record companies had adopted the paste-over method. In 1951, Columbia US began issuing records in the 45 rpm format RCA Victor had introduced two years earlier. The same year, Ted Wallerstein retired as Columbia Records chairman; and Columbia US also severed its decades-long distribution arrangement with EMI and signed
20600-608: The case). The blue Columbia label was retained for its classical music Columbia Masterworks Records series until it was later changed to a green label before switching to a gray label in the late 1950s, and then to the bronze that is familiar to owners of Columbia/CBS classical and Broadway albums. Columbia Phonograph Company of Canada did not survive the Great Depression , so CBS made a distribution deal with Sparton Records in 1939 to release Columbia records in Canada under
20800-637: The catalog were in the 10 inch format starting with ML 2001 for the light classics, CL 6001 for popular songs and JL 8001 for children's records. The Library of Congress in Washington DC now holds the Columbia Records Paperwork Archive which shows the Label order for ML 4001 being written on March 1, 1948. One can infer that Columbia was pressing the first LPs for distribution to their dealers for at least 3 months prior to
21000-450: The collaborative effort, but Wallerstein credits engineer William Savory with the technical prowess that brought the long-playing disc to the public. By the early 1940s, Columbia had been experimenting with higher fidelity recordings, as well as longer masters, which paved the way for the successful release of the LPs in 1948. One such record that helped set a new standard for music listeners
21200-529: The company was renamed Columbia Records Inc. and founded its Mexican record company, Discos Columbia de Mexico. 1948 saw the first classical LP Nathan Milstein's recording of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto . Columbia's new 33 rpm format quickly spelled the death of the classical 78 rpm record and for the first time in nearly fifty years, gave Columbia a commanding lead over RCA Victor Red Seal . Columbia's president Edward Wallerstein
21400-575: The cover of Time magazine were all Columbia artists. (In the early 1960s Columbia jazz artist Thelonious Monk would be afforded the same honor.) Columbia changed distributors in Australia and New Zealand in 1956 when the Australian Record Company picked up distribution of U.S. Columbia product to replace the Capitol Records product which ARC lost when EMI bought Capitol. As EMI owned the Columbia trademark at that time,
21600-468: The crime film Smokin' Aces , co-starring as an assassin named Georgia Sykes opposite Ben Affleck and Andy García . Keys received much praise from her co-stars in the film; Ryan Reynolds called her "so natural" and said she would "blow everybody away." Smokin' Aces was a moderate hit at the box office, earning $ 57,103,895 worldwide during its theatrical run. In the same year, Keys earned further praise for her second film, The Nanny Diaries , based on
21800-529: The cultural and racial diversity in the neighborhood, where she expanded upon her musical exploration, and her character was also solidified. "Harlem raised me in a lot of ways," Keys remarked. "[It] taught me how to think fast, how to play the game ... taught me leadership, how to get out of bad situations when you need to, how to hold my own." During this period, she met her good friend who would later become her long-term collaborator and boyfriend Kerry Brothers Jr. , also famously known as Krucial. In 1985, at
22000-502: The cylinder system in 1901, preceded only by their "Toy Graphophone" of 1899, which used small, vertically cut records. For a decade, Columbia competed with both the Edison Phonograph Company cylinders and Victor Talking Machine Company disc records as one of the top three names in American sound recording. In 1903, to add prestige to its early catalog of artists, Columbia contracted several prominent singers from
22200-444: The delight of many, this did not happen, and Art went on to many more successful years supervising all aspects of Columbia's Hillbilly/Country artists and sessions. On August 30, 1939, Columbia replaced its $ .75 Brunswick record for a $ .50 Columbia label. Brunswick was gradually phased out, the final issue being Brunswick 8520, in April 1940. Wallerstein and Paley knew in advance that their course of action would lead to violation of
22400-433: The early numbers with the "ledge" variation (i.e., no deep groove), had the small "CBS". This text would be used on the Columbia labels until June 1962. Columbia's Mexican unit, Discos Columbia, was renamed Discos CBS. With the formation of CBS Records International, CBS started establishing its own distribution in the early 1960s, beginning in Australia. In 1960 CBS took over its distributor in Australia and New Zealand,
22600-846: The early singles by the label's top female recording star of the decade, Doris Day . In 1953, Columbia formed a new subsidiary label Epic Records . 1954 saw Columbia end its distribution arrangement with Sparton Records and form Columbia Records of Canada. To enhance its country music stable, which already included Marty Robbins , Ray Price and Carl Smith , Columbia bid $ 15,000 for Elvis Presley 's contract from Sun Records in 1955. Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker , turned down their offer and signed Presley with RCA Victor. However, Columbia did sign two Sun artists in 1958: Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins . With 1954, Columbia U.S. decisively broke with its past when it introduced its new, modernist -style "Walking Eye" logo, designed by Columbia's art director S. Neil Fujita . This logo actually depicts
22800-540: The emerging rock music scene thanks to his championing of reissue LPs of the music of blues artists Robert Johnson and Bessie Smith . By 1937–38, the record business in America was finally recovering from the near-death blow of the Great Depression, at least for RCA Victor and Decca, but privately, there were doubts about the survival of ARC. In a 1941 court case brought by unhappy shareholders of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. ("CBS"), Edward Wallerstein,
23000-564: The end of that month. In June 2013, Keys's VH1 Storytellers special was released on CD and DVD. In December 2013, Keys was featured on " I Will Pray (Pregherò) " released as a single from Italian singer Giorgia 's studio album Senza paura . In 2014, Keys collaborated with Kendrick Lamar on the song " It's On Again " for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 soundtrack. In July 2014, it was reported that Keys had changed management from Red Light Management's Will Botwin to Ron Laffitte and Guy Oseary at Maverick . On September 8, 2014, Keys uploaded
23200-408: The first contract between factory workers and Columbia management. In a career with Columbia that lasted 30 years, Greenspon retired after achieving the position of executive vice president of the company. Columbia also hired talent scout, music writer, producer, and impresario John Hammond in 1937. Alongside his significance as a discoverer, promoter, and producer of jazz, blues, and folk artists during
23400-486: The following year, among a total of five nominations. 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 Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart, this
23600-457: The front and one for the back. The front slick bent around the top, bottom, and left sides (the right side is open for the record to be inserted into the cover) and glued the two halves of cardboard together at the top and bottom. The back slick is pasted over the edges of the pasted-on front slick to make it appear that the album cover is one continuous piece. Columbia discovered that printing two front cover slicks, one for mono and one for stereo,
23800-765: The introduction of the LP on June 21, 1948. The catalog numbering system has had minor changes ever since. Columbia's LPs were particularly well-suited to classical music's longer pieces, so some of the early albums featured such artists as Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra , Bruno Walter and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra , and Sir Thomas Beecham and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra . The success of these recordings persuaded Capitol Records to begin releasing LPs in 1949. Even before
24000-557: 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. In 2009, Keys approached Clive Davis for permission to submit
24200-487: The label, at age 15. Keys was also finishing high school, and her academic success had provided her opportunity for scholarship and early admission to university. That year, Keys accepted a scholarship to study at Columbia University in Manhattan. She graduated from high school early as valedictorian , at the age of 16, and began attending Columbia University at that age while working on her music. Keys attempted to manage
24400-468: The label, exploring more production and engineering on her own with her own equipment. She had moved out of her mother's apartment and into a sixth-floor walk-up apartment in Harlem with Brothers, where she fit a recording studio into their bedroom and worked on her music. Keys felt being on her own was "necessary" for her sanity. She was "going through a lot" with herself and with her mother, and she "needed
24600-437: The label, record numbering system, and recording process changed. On February 25, 1925, Columbia began recording with the electric recording process licensed from Western Electric . "Viva-tonal" records set a benchmark in tone and clarity unequaled on commercial discs during the 78-rpm era. The first electrical recordings were made by Art Gillham , the "Whispering Pianist". In a secret agreement with Victor, electrical technology
24800-480: The last week "Like You'll Never See Me Again" was at No. 1, the Keys was on top of the chart for 17 weeks, more consecutive weeks than any other artist on the Hot R&B/Hip/Hop Songs chart. The album's third single, " Teenage Love Affair ", which peaked at number 54 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number three on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. The album's fourth and final single, " Superwoman ", which peaked at number 82 on
25000-532: The latter half of 1961, Columbia started using pressing plants with newer equipment. The "deep groove" pressings were made on older pressing machines, where the groove was an artifact of the metal stamper being affixed to a round center "block" to assure the resulting record would be centered. Newer machines used parts with a slightly different geometry, that only left a small "ledge" where the deep groove used to be. This changeover did not happen all at once, as different plants replaced machines at different times, leaving
25200-652: The latter two were originally owned by BMG before its 2008 relaunch after Sony's acquisition alongside other BMG labels. The Columbia Phonograph Company was founded on January 15, 1889, by stenographer, lawyer, and New Jersey native Edward D. Easton (1856–1915) and a group of investors. It derived its name from the District of Columbia , where it was headquartered. At first it had a local monopoly on sales and service of Edison phonographs and phonograph cylinders in Washington, D.C. , Maryland , and Delaware . As
25400-406: 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
25600-505: The loaned trademarks and catalog of master recordings made prior to December 3, 1931, reverted to Warner Bros. Pictures. The Columbia trademark from this point until the late 1950s was two overlapping circles with the Magic Notes in the left circle and a CBS microphone in the right circle. The Royal Blue labels were dropped in favor of a deep red, which caused RCA Victor to claim infringement on its famous Red Seal trademark (RCA lost
25800-499: The low 2000s. Columbia's engineering department developed a process for emulating stereo from a mono source. They called this process "Electronically Rechanneled for Stereo". In the June 16, 1962, issue of Billboard magazine (page 5), Columbia announced it would issue "rechanneled" versions of greatest hits compilations that had been recorded in mono, including albums by Doris Day, Frankie Laine, Percy Faith, Mitch Miller, Marty Robbins, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, and Johnny Mathis. By
26000-662: The media industry by publicly recognizing the levels of excellence achieved by the multicultural community, and the qualities that each ethnic group brings to the professional and commercial success of the United Kingdom Fonogram Awards is the national music awards of Hungary, held every year since 1992 and promoted by Mahasz. The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences . Keys has won sixteen awards from thirty-one nominations, including Album of
26200-462: The mono and stereo numbers for two years. Masterworks classical LPs had an MS 6000 series, while showtunes albums on Masterworks were OS 2000. Finally, in 1960, the pop stereo series jumped from 8300 to 8310 to match Lambert, Hendricks & Ross Sing Ellington , the Lambert, Hendricks & Ross album issued as CL-1510. From that point, the stereo numbers on pop albums were exactly 6800 higher than
26400-402: The mono; stereo classical albums were the mono number plus 600; and showtunes releases were the mono number MINUS 3600. Only the last two digits in the respective catalog series' matched. Pop stereo LPs got into the high 9000s by 1970, when CBS Records revamped and unified its catalog numbering system across all its labels. Masterworks classical albums were in the 7000s, while showtunes stayed in
26600-596: The morning alone, that was what I did ... The city had a huge influence on me because it's such a diverse place. As hard as [growing up in it was], I always felt very blessed about being able to recognize different cultures and styles, people and places. I feel like the concrete alone just gave me a certain drive. I really saw everything: every negative I could possibly see from the time I could walk until now; and also every positive, every bright future, every dream that I could possibly see. So growing up around this big dichotomy definitely influenced my music. —Keys From
26800-512: The most Grammy wins for a woman solo artist in a year. That year, Keys wrote and produced the song "Impossible" for Christina Aguilera 's album Stripped (2002), also providing background vocals and piano. 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
27000-415: The music video to a new song called " We Are Here " to her Facebook page, accompanied by a lengthy status update describing her motivation and inspiration to write the song. It was released digitally the following week. Keys was also working with Pharrell Williams on her sixth studio album, first set for a 2015 release. In an interview with Vibe , Keys described the sound of the album as "aggressive". One of
27200-572: The musical Cats and was cast as Dorothy Gale in a production of The Wizard of Oz . Keys discovered that she had a passion for the piano by age six, as she loved the sound and feel of the instrument and desired to play and learn it. When Keys was ten, a neighborhood friend who was moving home gave her family an old upright piano. This proved pivotal for Keys's musical development, which allowed her to practice, to play, and to benefit fully from music lessons at an early age. Keys began receiving classical piano training by age seven, practicing six hours
27400-497: The name; Paley acquired the fledgling radio network in 1928.) On January 3, 1939, Wallerstein left RCA Victor to become president of the CBS phonograph subsidiary, a position he would hold for twelve years. CBS kept the ARC name for three months. then on April 4, it amended the New York Department of State record of "Columbia Phonograph Company, Inc.," naming several of its own employees to directorships, and announced in
27600-430: The new executives. Keys brought her songs to the executives, who rejected her work, saying it "sounded like one long demo". They wanted Keys to sing over loops, and told Keys they will bring in a "top" team and get her "a more radio-friendly sound". Keys would not allow it; "they already had set the monster loose", she recalled. "Once I started producing my own stuff there wasn't any going back." Keys stated that Columbia had
27800-403: The next." To Keys, "success doesn't just mean that I'm the singer, and you give me my 14 points, and that's all. That's not how it's going to go down." Edge, who was by that time head of A&R at Arista Records, said, "I didn't see that there was much hands-on development at Columbia, and she was smart enough to figure that out and to ask to be released from her contract, which was a bold move for
28000-460: The now accepted medium of the record business." Despite Wallerstein's stormy tenure, in June 1948, Columbia introduced the Long Playing "microgroove" LP record format (sometimes written "Lp" in early advertisements), which rotated at 33⅓ revolutions per minute , to be the standard for the gramophone record for forty years. CBS research director Dr. Peter Goldmark played a managerial role in
28200-445: The ones that maybe are needing to craft their own sound and style and songs, and you just have to let an artist go and find that space. And I think he somehow knew that and saw that in me and really just let me find that." After signing with Davis, Keys continued honing her songs. Keys almost chose Wilde as her stage name at the age of 16 until her manager suggested the name Keys after a dream he had. She felt that name embodied her both as
28400-867: The parallels in the music industry, particularly as she was a teenager starting out; she could maintain a particular focus and not derail herself. She credits her "tough" mother for anchoring her on a right path as opposed to many people she knew who ended up on the wrong path and in jail. Keys attributed her unusual maturity as a young girl to her mother, who depended on her to be responsible while she worked to provide for them and gave Keys as many opportunities as possible. Keys loved music and singing from early childhood. She recalled her mother playing jazz records of artists such as Thelonious Monk , Billie Holiday , Ella Fitzgerald , and Louis Armstrong on Sunday mornings—early musical moments Keys considers influential in kindling her interest in and emotional connection to music. In preschool , Keys sang in her school's production of
28600-610: The people that I felt comfortable with or by myself with my piano." Keys decided to sit in with some producers and engineers to ask questions and watch them technically work on other artists' music. "The only way it would sound like anything I would be remotely proud of is if I did it," Keys determined. "I already knew my way around the keyboard, so that was an advantage. And the rest was watching people work on other artists and watching how they layer things." Her partner Kerry "Krucial" Brothers suggested to Keys she buy her own equipment and record on her own. Keys began working separately from
28800-633: The performance of recordings on the Hot Latin Songs . Keys has been nominated three times and has won one award. The Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Awards reflect the performance of recordings on the Hot R&;B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Tracks . Keys has won six awards. The BET Awards annually celebrate African Americans and other minorities in music, acting, sports, and other fields of entertainment. Keys has won seven awards from fifteen nominations. The BETJ Virtual Awards
29000-458: The piano for executives of various labels, and a bidding war ensued. Edge was keen to sign Keys himself but was unable to do so at that time due to being on the verge of leaving his present record company, Warner Bros. Records , to work at Clive Davis ' Arista Records . During this period, Columbia Records had approached Keys for a record deal, offering her a $ 26,000 white baby grand piano; after negotiations with her and her manager, she signed to
29200-517: The possibility that both deep groove and ledge varieties could be original pressings. The changeover took place starting in late 1961. In 1961, CBS ended its arrangement with Philips Records and formed its own international organization, CBS Records International , in 1962. This subsidiary label released Columbia recordings outside the US and Canada on the CBS label (until 1964 marketed by Philips in Britain). The recordings could not be released under
29400-417: The process. Robinson had urged Keys to pursue a solo career, as she remained reluctant, preferring the musical interactions of a group. She took Robinson's advice after her group disbanded, and contacted Robinson who in 1995 introduced her to A&R executive Peter Edge . Robinson and Edge helped Keys assemble some demos of songs she had written and set up a showcases for label executives. Keys performed on
29600-658: The producers would also sexually proposition her. "It's all over the place. And it's crazy. And it's very difficult to understand and handle," she said. Keys had already built a "protect yourself" mentality from growing up in Hell's Kitchen, which served her as a young teen then in the industry having to rebuff the advances of producers and being around people who "just wanted to use [her]". Keys felt like she could not show weakness. Executives at Columbia also wanted to manufacture her image, with her "hair blown out and flowing", short dresses, and asking her to lose weight; "they wanted me to be
29800-443: The recording grooves stamped into both sides of each disc—not just one—in 1908 Columbia commenced successful mass production of what they called their "Double-Faced" discs, the 10-inch variety initially selling for 65 cents each. Columbia also introduced the internal-horn " Grafonola " to compete with the extremely popular " Victrola " introduced by the rival Victor Talking Machine Company in 1906. During this era, Columbia began to use
30000-552: The relationship between a young New York City girl and her wise grandmother. The app featured two of Keys's original songs, "Follow the Moon" and "Unlock Yourself". In January 2013, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins and Keys officially unveiled the BlackBerry 10 mobile platform in New York City. Heins announced that Keys would be the company's new Global Creative Director. In January 2014, BlackBerry said it will part ways with Keys at
30200-400: The roster and catalogue was moved to Columbia Masterworks Records . Columbia released its first pop stereo albums in the summer of 1958. All of the first dozen or so were stereo versions of albums already available in mono. It was not until September 1958, that Columbia began simultaneous mono/stereo releases. Mono versions of otherwise stereo recordings were discontinued in 1968. To celebrate
30400-438: The same as everyone else," Keys felt. "I had horrible experiences," she recalled. "They were so disrespectful ... I started figuring, 'Hey, nothing's worth all this.'" As months passed, Keys had grown more frustrated and depressed with the situation, while the label requested the finished tracks. Keys recalled, "it was around that time that I realized that I couldn't do it with other people. I had to do it more with myself, with
30600-628: The same year, Columbia executive Frank Buckley Walker pioneered some of the first country music or "hillbilly" genre recordings with the Johnson City sessions in Tennessee, including artists such as Clarence Horton Greene and "Fiddlin'" Charlie Bowman . He followed that with a return to Tennessee the next year, as well as recording sessions in other cities of the South. Moran and Mack as The Two Black Crows 1926 recording 'The Early Bird Catches
30800-447: The second Time cover story on a jazz musician (the first featured Louis Armstrong 's picture) had been earned by Duke Ellington , not himself. Within two years Ellington's picture would appear on the cover of Time , following his success at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival. Ellington at Newport , recorded on Columbia, was also the bandleader-composer-pianist's best-selling album. Moreover, this exclusive trinity of jazz giants featured on
31000-527: The shelf". She had performed "Little Drummer Girl" for So So Def 's Christmas compilation in 1996, and later co-wrote the song "Dah Dee Dah (Sexy Thing)" for the Men in Black (1997) film soundtrack, the only released recording Keys made with Columbia. Keys "hated" the experience of writing with the people Columbia brought in. "I remember driving to the studio one day with dread in my chest," she recalled. Keys said
31200-488: The show. She starred in "Fresh Takes", a commercial micro-series created by Dove Go Fresh, which premiered during The Hills on MTV from March to April 2008. The premiere celebrated the launch of new Dove Go Fresh. She also signed a deal as spokesperson with Glacéau's VitaminWater to endorse the product, and was in an American Express commercial for the "Are you a Cardmember?" campaign. Keys, along with The White Stripes ' guitarist and lead vocalist Jack White , recorded
31400-453: The shutdown, Keys (and various other artists previously signed to the three labels) released her following music material under RCA Records . Keys released her fifth studio album Girl on Fire , her first album through RCA Records on November 27, 2012. Keys has stated that she wants the album to "liberate" and "empower" fans. The album's title track was released on September 4 as its lead single and peak number eleven on Billboard hot 100,
31600-468: The single was Keys's first top twenty own single on the chart since 2007 single "Like You'll Never See Me Again", she performed the song for the first time at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards on September 6. "Girl on Fire" is an uptempo anthem. " Brand New Me " was released as the album's second single. A softer ballad, it was noted as significantly different from the album's lead single. Prior, two songs from Girl on Fire were released as promotion. The first
31800-408: The songs on the album is called "Killing Your Mother". In the same interview Keys revealed one of the songs on the album was titled "Killing Your Mother" with WWD , Keys discussed her first beauty campaign with Givenchy as the face of the new fragrance Dahlia Divin. In November 2014, Keys announced that she is releasing a series of children's books. The first book released is entitled Blue Moon: From
32000-414: The songwriters and publishers of the most performed pop songs. Keys has won four awards. The ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards honors songwriters and publishers of top R&B, hip hop, and reggae music. Keys has won eight awards, including one special award. Keys has received four nominations. The Black Entertainment, Film, Fashion, Television and Arts (BEFFTA) Awards celebrate and reward
32200-509: The space"; "I needed to have my own thoughts, to do my own thing." Keys and Brothers later moved to Queens and together they turned the basement into KrucialKeys Studios. Keys would return to her mother's house periodically, particularly when she felt "lost or unbalanced or alone". "She would probably be working and I would sit at the piano," she reminisced. During this time, she composed the song "Troubles", which started as "a conversation with God", working on it further in Harlem. Around this time
32400-582: The theme song to the James Bond film Quantum of Solace with her single " Another Way to Die " (with Jack White ) the following year. Her fourth album, The Element of Freedom (2009), peaked atop the UK Albums Chart , sold four million copies worldwide, and was supported by the singles " Doesn't Mean Anything ", " Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart ", and " Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready) ." That same year, she guest appeared on Jay-Z 's 2009 single " Empire State of Mind ", which became her fourth number-one hit in
32600-660: The time "the music that was pumping on the airwaves was hip-hop and rap – not Alicia's unique blend of classical meets soul, meets hip-hop, meets, well, Alicia. What could have been a recipe for disaster ... turned into the opportunity of a lifetime." Keys as an artist since her early days, Davis said, "does her own thing. She has set out her own vision. That's the way it is for artists of her ilk ... They don't try to fit in. They try to establish their own paths ... [she has] sure natural instinct and sure vision" and "a respect for musical history." Songs in A Minor , which included material that Columbia Records had rejected,
32800-640: The time, Keys was part of a three-member band that had formed in the Bronx and was performing in Harlem. Robinson eventually agreed to his brother's request, and went to see Keys perform with her group at the Police Athletic League center in Harlem. He was soon taken by Keys, her soulful singing, playing contemporary and classical music and performing her own songs. Robinson was excited by audiences' reactions to her. Impressed by her talents, charisma, image, and maturity, Robinson considered her to be
33000-502: The time. However, the compilations were so successful that they led to Columbia doing such packages on a widespread basis, usually when an artist's career was in decline. Although Columbia began recording in stereo in 1956, stereo LPs did not begin to be manufactured until 1958. One of Columbia's first stereo releases was an abridged and re-structured performance of Handel 's Messiah by the New York Philharmonic and
33200-528: The top recording company in the world, boasting a star-studded roster of artists and an unmatched catalogue of popular, jazz, classical and stage and screen soundtrack titles. Lieberson, who had joined Columbia as an A&R manager in 1938, was known for both his personal elegance and his dedication to quality, overseeing the release of many hugely successful albums and singles, as well as championing prestige releases that sold relatively poorly, and even some titles that had limited appeal, such as complete editions of
33400-459: The trademarks and masters of the Brunswick, Vocalion , and Melotone labels to ARC. WB would receive a portion of the sales of its catalogues, while ARC was free to use the labels for new recordings. Brunswick immediately became the premium $ .75 label, Melotone would release new hillbilly and other $ .35 dime-store discounted discs, and Vocalion, while re-releasing prior ARC records, would also be
33600-527: The two modern jazz artists who would in 1959 record albums that remain—more than sixty years later—among the best-selling jazz albums by any label—viz., Time Out by the Brubeck Quartet and, to an even greater extent, Kind of Blue by the Davis Sextet, which, in 2003, appeared as number 12 in Rolling Stone 's list of the "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time". With another producer, Teo Macero ,
33800-399: The works of Arnold Schoenberg and Anton von Webern . One of his first major successes was the original Broadway cast album of My Fair Lady , which sold over 5 million copies worldwide in 1957, becoming the most successful LP ever released up to that time. Lieberson also convinced long-serving CBS President William S. Paley to become the sole backer of the original Broadway production,
34000-510: Was Keys's first number one on all three charts, which also made her the first African-American of non-Hispanic origin to reach number 1 on the Hot Latin Tracks . 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. It was preceded by the release of its lead single " Doesn't Mean Anything " which peaked at sixty on
34200-495: Was a flight attendant . Keys's father is African American and her mother is of Italian and "Irish or Scottish" descent; her mother's paternal grandparents were immigrants from Sciacca , Sicily ; and Lamezia Terme , in Calabria . Named after her Puerto Rican godmother, Keys has said that she was comfortable with her multiracial heritage because she felt she was able to "relate to different cultures". Keys's father left when she
34400-544: Was a holiday album and her first independent release. In 2023, she wrote, composed and co-produced her first Broadway musical , Hell's Kitchen . Keys has sold over 90 million records worldwide, making her one of the world's best-selling music artists . She was named by Billboard as the Top Artist of the 2000s in the R&;B/Hip-Hop category, and placed tenth on their list of Top 50 R&B /Hip-Hop Artists of
34600-451: Was a "compelling, hypnotic performer" best experienced in person, he had Keys perform her music to different crowds in different places to spread the word. "I created opportunities for those who saw her to spread the word", Davis recalled. "She is her own ambassador." Davis wanted to "let people discover her, and you can only do that with a few artists." Keys later performed on The Tonight Show in promotion for her upcoming debut. Davis wrote
34800-565: Was a constant battle, it was a lot of -isms", Keys recalled. "There was the sexism, but it was more the ageism – you're too young, how could you possibly know what you want to do? – and oh God, that just irked me to death, I hated that." "The music coming out was very disappointing", she recalled. "You have this desire to have something good, and you have thoughts and ideas, but when you finish the music it's shit, and it keeps on going like that." Keys would be in "perpetual music industry purgatory" under Columbia, while they ultimately "relegated [her] to
35000-400: 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
35200-419: Was a shell corporation set up by Consolidated Films Industries, Inc. ("CFI") to hold the Columbia stock, while its subsidiary, American Record Corporation ("ARC"), operated the label. This assumption grew out of the ease which CFI later exhibited in selling Columbia in 1938. On December 3, 1931, CFI made a deal with Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. ("WB") to lease Brunswick Record Corporation , which included
35400-780: Was a song titled " New Day ". The song was later revealed to be the solo version of 50 Cent 's lead single featuring Dr. Dre and Keys. Another song, " Not Even the King " was uploaded to VEVO as a promotional song. Co-written by Scottish singer-songwriter Emeli Sandé , its lyrics talk about a rich love that couldn't be afforded by "the king". Overall sales of the album were considerably lower than Keys's previous ones. In September 2012, Keys collaborated with Reebok for her own sneakers collection. In October 2012, Keys announced her partnership with Bento Box Entertainment 's Bento Box Interactive to create an education mobile application titled "The Journals of Mama Mae and LeeLee" for iOS devices about
35600-486: Was acquired by the Grigsby-Grunow Company , the manufacturers of Majestic radios and refrigerators. When Grigsby-Grunow declared bankruptcy in November 1933, Columbia was placed in receivership, and in June 1934, the company was sold to Sacro Enterprises Inc. ("Sacro") for $ 70,000. Sacro was incorporated a few days before the sale in New York. Public documents do not contain any names. Many suspect that it
35800-708: Was also considered to be the first genuine concept album . Since the term "LP" has come to refer to the 12-inch 33 + 1 ⁄ 3 rpm vinyl disk, the first LP is the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor played by Nathan Milstein with Bruno Walter conducting the New York Philharmonic (then called the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York), Columbia ML 4001, found in the Columbia Record Catalog for 1949, published in July 1948. The other "LP's" listed in
36000-564: Was challenged by Keys's music teacher herself). Living in the "musical melting pot" city, Keys had already been discovering other genres of music, including soul music , hip hop , R&B , and taken affinity to artists like Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield . Keen on dissecting music, Keys continued developing her songwriting and finding her own 'flow and style" through her exploration of the intricacies in different music. Keys spent more time in Harlem during her teenage years. She connected with
36200-471: 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." In November 2006 Keys performed live with David Bowie at a fundraising event in New York. This would be Bowie's last public performance. Keys made her film debut in early 2007 in
36400-454: 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 have assisted Keys in creating her albums as well as creating music for other artists. In 2006, Keys won three NAACP Image Awards , including Outstanding Female Artist and Outstanding Song for "Unbreakable". She also received
36600-469: Was hired by Wallerstein as "Associate Director Popular Recording" (at 7th Ave). Another executive from ARC, Art Satherley , was not expected to transition over as easily. "It is understood that CBS and the Levys are not interested in retaining American Record's hillbilly department, and that Art Satherly, who has been running this section for many years, will take it out of the company with him". Fortunately, to
36800-408: Was inefficient and therefore needlessly costly. Starting in the summer of 1959 with some of the albums released in August, they went to the "paste-over" front slick, which had the stereo information printed on the top and the mono information printed on the bottom. For stereo issues, they moved the front slick down so the stereo information was showing at the top, and the mono information was bent around
37000-410: Was instrumental in steering Paley towards the ARC purchase. He set his talents to his goal of hearing an entire movement of a symphony on one side of an album. Ward Botsford writing for the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Issue of High Fidelity Magazine relates: "He was no inventor—he was simply a man who seized an idea whose time was ripe and begged, ordered, and cajoled a thousand men into bringing into being
37200-537: Was kept secret to avoid hurting sales of acoustic records. Louis Sterling, managing director of the Columbia Graphophone Company, had been the moving force behind bringing Western Electric's recording process, and the British takeover. Originally from New York, Sterling became Chairman of Columbia NY from 1925 until 1931, and oversaw stability and success. In 1926, Columbia acquired Okeh Records and its growing stable of jazz and blues artists, including Louis Armstrong and Clarence Williams . Columbia had already built
37400-429: Was nomianted at the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Song . For her impact in the music industry she was honored with the Hal David Starlight Award by the Songwriters Hall of Fame (2005), with the Impact Awards by the Billboard Women in Music (2019), the Innovator Award by the IHeartRadio Music Awards (2019) and The Recording Academy's Producers & Engineers Wing Award (2018). ASCAP recognized Keys with
37600-522: Was nominated for six Grammy Awards, winning five, including Best R&B Album , Song of the Year for " Fallin' ", and Best New Artist . Keys also received a MTV Video Music Awards , two American Music Awards , six NAACP Image Awards and two Billboard Music Award . Keys' second album, The Diary of Alicia Keys (2003) promoted by the lead singles " If I Ain't Got You " and " You Don't Know My Name ", winning three Grammy Awards. She also won six Billboard Music Awards, including Hot 100 Songwriter of
37800-412: Was not something that changed at a certain date, but rather, pressing plants were told to use up the stock of old (pre-CBS) labels first, resulting in a mixture of labels for some given releases. Some are known with the CBS text on mono albums, and not on stereo of the same album, and vice versa; diggings brought up pressings with the CBS text on one side and not on the other. Many, but certainly not all, of
38000-403: Was re-released as deluxe and collector's editions in commemoration of its 10th anniversary. To support the release, Keys embarked on a four-city promotional tour, titled Piano & I: A One Night Only Event With Alicia Keys , featuring only her piano. Keys is also set to co-produce the Broadway premiere of Stick Fly , which was opened in December 2011. At the end of June, a wax figure of Keys
38200-489: 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 received six Grammy Award nominations, including Record of the Year for "Fallin ' ". At the 2002 Grammy Awards , Keys won five awards: Song of the Year , Best Woman R&B Vocal Performance , and Best R&B Song for "Fallin ' ", Best New Artist , and Best R&B Album . Keys tied Lauryn Hill 's record for
38400-408: Was released as the album's fifth single. While only peaking at twenty-one on the Billboard Hot 100, it topped the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for twelve consecutive weeks. The song became the album's most successful single; Keys eighth number one on the chart; and Key's first number one song in five years. The album's sixth and final single, " Wait Til You See My Smile ", was released in December 2010 in
38600-588: Was released on June 5, 2001, to critical acclaim. Musically, it incorporated classical piano in an R&B, soul and jazz-fused album. Jam! described the music as "old-school urban sounds and attitude set against a backdrop of classical piano and sweet, warm vocals". USA Today wrote that Keys "taps into the blues, soul, jazz and even classical music to propel haunting melodies and hard-driving funk". Songs in A Minor would be "lauded for its mix of traditional soul values and city-girl coolness", wrote The Guardian . PopMatters wrote that "Keys's Songs in A Minor
38800-426: Was tall and solid; it was modified in 1961 to the familiar one still used today (pictured on this page), despite the fact that the Walking Eye was used only sporadically during most of the 1990s. Although the big band era had passed, Columbia had Duke Ellington under contract for several years, capturing the historic moment when Ellington's band provoked a post-midnight frenzy (followed by international headlines) at
39000-408: Was the 10" LP reissue of The Voice of Frank Sinatra , originally released on March 4, 1946, as an album of four 78 rpm records, which was the first pop album issued in the new LP format. Sinatra was arguably Columbia's hottest commodity and his artistic vision combined with the direction Columbia were taking the medium of music, both popular and classic, were well suited. The Voice of Frank Sinatra
39200-407: Was the custom of some of the regional phonograph companies, Columbia produced many commercial cylinder recordings of its own, and its catalog of musical records in 1891 was 10 pages. Columbia's ties to Edison were severed in 1894 with the North American Phonograph Company 's breakup. Thereafter, it sold only records and phonographs of its own manufacture. In 1902, Columbia introduced the "XP" record,
39400-488: Was the oldest surviving record label. The repercussions of the stock market Crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression led to the near collapse of the entire recording industry and, in March 1931, J.P Morgan, the major shareholder, steered the Columbia Graphophone Company (along with Odeon records and Parlophone , which it had owned since 1926) into a merger with the Gramophone Company ("His Master's Voice") to form Electric and Musical Industries Ltd ( EMI ). Since
39600-489: Was too overwhelmed and wanted to disengage, at which point her mother took some time off with her and encouraged her to keep focusing on piano. Keys would continue studying classical music until the age of 18. Keys regards her education in classical piano and dedication to classical music as vital for her stability in her youth and her development as a musician and songwriter. Keys later said of her classical background: That type of studying, that type of discipline ... after
39800-462: Was two years old. She was subsequently raised by her mother during her formative years at Manhattan Plaza in Hell's Kitchen. Keys has stated that her parents never had a relationship, and her father was not in her life. Although she did not like to speak about her father in order to not feed stereotypes, Keys remarked in 2001: "I'm not in contact with him. That's fine. When I was younger, I minded about that. [It] made me angry. But it helped show me what
40000-587: Was unveiled at Madame Tussauds New York. On September 26, 2011, was the premiere of Project 5 , known as Five , a short film that marks the debut of Keys as a director. It is a documentary of five episodes that tell stories of five women who had breast cancer and how it affected their lives. The production also has co-direction of the actresses Jennifer Aniston , Demi Moore and film director Patty Jenkins . On October 7, 2011, Sony Music 's RCA Music Group announced that it would be absorbing Keys' longtime label, J Records, as well as Arista and Jive Records . With
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