RCA/LEGACY GETS A NEW SET OF KEYS

Has it really been 20 years since that brilliant young Alicia Keys dropped her album Songs in A Minor? No, it's impossible that so much time could have elapsed... let me just look in the mirror for a moment and OH MY GOD I'M ANCIENT.

But enough about me. As it happens, Alicia's superb, chart-topping, Diamond-certified, Grammy-dominating set dropped in June of 2001; to commemorate the anniversary, RCA/Legacy is rolling out not one but two special editions on 6/4. The standard edition includes two bonus tracks from the original sessions, “Foolish Heart” and “Crazy (Mi Corazon)." A special two-LP version on green-and-black vinyl with pop-up art can be pre-ordered here.

The news comes, of course, on the first day of Black Music Month.

Keys has been on a multimedia spree to promote the release, including providing commentary to accompany the new edition that will be streamable exclusively via Tidal. A dedicated website, meanwhile, enables fans to write letters to Keys.

The singer/songwriter and virtuoso pianist (who subsequently dazzled as awards-show host) clearly tricked us by not aging visibly over the past two decades.