The salient points

• Alicia Keys' first single was pretty good wasn't it?


• 'Songs In A Minor' was fairly successful, with sales of over 6m worldwide.


• She's also won about 400 Grammys since 2001.


• In 2008, Keys had the honour of performing a James Bond theme. Unfortunately it was with Jack White and was totally unlistenable.


• Thankfully her duet with Beyoncé was much better, but plans to release it as a single were scrapped, proving that some record labels really don't know what they're doing.


• This is one of the best songs of the last few years is it not?


• In 2010, Keys married producer Swizz Beatz and had a baby. CONGRATS KEYSO.


• Both of these events lead to her sort of reinventing herself and her 'sound' on 2012's 'Girl On Fire'. Well, she worked with Jamie xx, basically.


• Of course, like most things that happened in 2012, Emeli Sandé was involved.

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