It’s been 10 years since Alicia Keys released her platinum selling debut album “Songs in A Minor,” and on June 28th she will re-release the album including live footage from the recording, as well as alternate songs.
Keys has come a long way from her 2001 debut, she is now a wife and a mother. She sits down with W magazine for their June issue to dish on her debut and what is was like for a New York City girl to break in the industry and live her dream.
“I just wanted to be who I was, which was like so many other girls I knew. We grew up in the city, had a hard edge and obstacles to overcome, but we were still young and beautiful. I didn’t want to be all dressed up, all made up—I wanted to be myself, which hadn’t been done before,” says Alicia.
“I was a young girl with very strong ideas but no experience. I just knew that everything else I was doing was wrong—that all the suggestions weren’t what was in my mind, they weren’t what it was meant to be.”
She continues, “How terrible would it have been if I had come out with some watered-down version of who I am? People fell in love with the real me, and I still feel blessed that that was how the journey began.”
Check out some stunning photos of Alicia Keys from the interview.
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Alicia Keys rocking a military inspired Alexander McQueen jacket.
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Alicia Keys going all natural for W magazine.
