Alicia Keys Here

Today sees fifteen-time Grammy®-winning singer, songwriter and producer, Alicia Keys release her highly-anticipated sixth studio album Here, on RCA Records through Sony Music Entertainment Australia. From the human condition to global politics, Here offers a keen glimpse of everything that matters most to Keys.

The album features Alicia's beautiful new song -Blended Family (What You Do For Love)' featuring A$AP Rocky. Co-written by Alicia Keys and produced by Keys and Mark Batson, the song is a reflection of the honesty portrayed throughout all of Here. You can listen to -Blended Family (What You Do For Love)' here.

Keys showcased new music from the powerful and moving album with a special free concert for fans in Times Square in her hometown of NYC on Sunday, October 9.  Shutting down the popular tourist area, Alicia Keys delivered a captivating hour-and-a-half-long show that also served as a loving tribute to hip-hop history, right near the heart of its birthplace. Fans can tune in to a broadcast of this today from midday AEDST here.

Urgent, intimate and musically daring, Here is Keys' truth laid bare: each track a confession; every melody a prayer.

The majority of Here's production credits belong to a creative force Keys calls the ILLuminaries, comprised of herself; songwriter/producer Mark Batson; rapper/producer Swizz Beatz; and long-time Keys songwriting collaborator Harold Lilly.  With this album, Keys made a list of things she wanted to talk about, themes she wanted to explore. The result is Here speaking to Alicia's roots in NYC and hip-hop culture.  The music on the album blends her perspective of the raw humanity of the world and who she is today as a woman and artist.

'On this album, I've arrived Here," Keys says. 'A place where I'm willing to truthfully look at myself in the mirror and to also see the reality of who we have become in this world. The good, the ugly, the shadows and the light. I've come to realize that in order for us to grow and to understand and accept each other we have to recognize the complexity of ourselves. We have to be able to talk about it and meet each other where we are, Here."

Alicia Keys is a 15-time Grammy® Award-winning singer/songwriter/producer, an accomplished actress, a New York Times best-selling author, an entrepreneur and a powerful force in the world of activism. This fall, Alicia joined NBC's The Voice for its 11th season, alongside Miley Cyrus, Adam Levine, and Blake Shelton"the 1st time the show has had two female judges at once.

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