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recording artist

Alicia Keys Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. A classically trained pianist, Keys started composing songs when she was 12 and was signed at 15 years old by Col ...

has appeared in numerous music videos. Her videography includes more than thirty

music video A music video is a video of variable duration, that integrates a music song or a music album with imagery that is produced for promotion (marketing), promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a m ...

s and three video albums. In 2000, Keys signed a recording contract with J Records and released her debut single " Fallin', taken from her first studio album '' Songs in A minor'' (2001). The plot of its music video had Keys traveling to a

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to visit her incarcerated boyfriend and was continued in the video for her next single, "

A Woman's Worth "A Woman's Worth" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Alicia Keys for her debut studio album ''Songs in A Minor'' (2001). A soul- R&B ballad, it was written by Keys and Erika Rose and produced by Keys. The song was released as the se ...

;" both videos marked Keys' first collaboration with director Chris Robinson, who would become a regular collaborator later. In 2004, another regular, American director Diane Martel, directed the accompanying music video for the second single from the singer's second album '' The Diary of Alicia Keys'', " If I Ain't Got You", which featured rapper

Method Man Clifford Smith, Jr. (born March 2, 1971), better known by his stage name Method Man, is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He is known as a member of the East Coast hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan. He is also half of t ...

as Keys'

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. It won the Best R&B Video accolade at the

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. In 2008, Keys collaborated with former The White Stripes singer Jack White on " Another Way to Die", the theme song for the

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''. Inspired by the plot, the CGI-heavy clip garnered a largely positive response from critics and was nominated for Best Short Form Music Video at the

51st Grammy Awards The 51st Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, on February 8, 2009, honoring the best in music for the recording year beginning October 1, 2007, through September 30, 2008. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss were the b ...

Music videos

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As featured artist

Guest appearances

Unreleased music videos

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Filmography

Film and television

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Theatre

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