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Alicia Keys Wants You To Know You're Doing Great

Keys speaks with Audie Cornish about delivering her seventh album, Alicia, during the pandemic, and the strange new resonance of songs written before anyone knew what this year would be like.
Alicia Keys' seventh album, <em>Alicia</em>, is out now.

How do you make pop music that means anything in the middle of a pandemic and civil unrest? How do you deliver that music to your fans when they can't come to see you, when you can't sing to them in person? At the moment, Alicia Keys is an expert on the topic.

Keys has a new album out today, her seventh in a storied career, simply titled . In the middle of a jam-packed day promoting her new music — so much so that her side of the conversation had

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