FILE - Alicia Keys performs at the Billboard Music Awards in Los Angeles on May 20, 2021. Keys' “Songs In A Minor," released in 2001, is among the 25 songs, albums, historical recordings being ...

To celebrate, we rounded up some of Alicia Keys' best songs, from classic love songs to soaring piano ballads and, yes, the iconic New York anthem "Empire State of Mind." Happy listening.

Then there’s “Is It Insane,” a jazz piano ballad from her 2021 album, KEYS. She unlocked the song from her vault, which she wrote nearly 20 years prior for The Diary of Alicia Keys.

This track, which opens with an iconic a capella vocal lyric before Alicia Key’s piano comes in, was released on her debut 2001 LP Songs in A Minor. A love song, the tune is about falling in love.

Alicia Keys - Fallin' (Official HD Video) by aliciakeysVEVO on YouTube "Hell's Kitchen" includes most of her biggest hits, along with four new songs.

Since the beginning of her career, Alicia Keys has used her celebrity to empower women, especially with the lyrics of some of her most well-known songs. Singer, songwriter, and powerhouse Alicia ...

The album also gives prominence to Keys’ New York City roots, as the chorus of the song, “She Don’t Really Care,” references many of the neighborhoods and boroughs in the city: “She grew up in ...

Article continues after video. When it comes to using her prominence, Keys has channeled it into empowering women, especially within some of her most well-known songs.