Daily album for July 29, 2025 Songs in A Minor by Alicia Keys (2001)

Cover art for Songs in A Minor

Genres

  • contemporary r&b
  • electronic
  • hip hop
  • house
  • neo soul
  • r&b
  • soul

Songs in A Minor is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Alicia Keys. It was released on June 26, 2001, by J Records. A classically trained pianist, Keys wrote, arranged and produced the majority of the album herself, though she frequently worked with her then-partner Kerry "Krucial" Brothers. The efforts resulted in a neo soul record fusing contemporary classical music with traditional and modern R&B, soul, jazz, hip-hop, blues, and gospel styles. Its lyrical themes center on love, perserverence, self-worth, survival, and introspection. Despite the album's title, only two of its tracks are composed in the key of A minor.

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