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Alicia Keys Takes to the MTV Unplugged Stage with Yamaha

Alicia Keys Takes to the MTV Unplugged Stage with Yamaha


Yamaha

Posted 2005-12-13


This fall MTV brought its popular Unplugged series out of retirement for nine-time GRAMMY® Award winner and Yamaha artist Alicia Keys. She taped the Unplugged show in New York City, performing a mix of her hits, a couple of new songs, some collaborations with special guests, and remakes of classics.

Keys commented to MTV News, “Unplugged is my thing, it's really my style, it's what I'm all about." She added, "When I first started playing anywhere, it was on a little cheesy keyboard in a small, nasty hotel dive, and even though I didn't have a beautiful nine-foot Yamaha piano, there was a certain energy that comes with an intimate space. I really loved it."

Performing on her Yamaha Disklavier DCFIIIS, Keys belted out hits from her multi-platinum albums Songs in A Minor and The Diary of Alicia Keys, including “Karma,” “Heartburn,” “A Woman’s Worth,” “If I Was Your Woman,” “ Diary,” “Goodbye,” “Butterflies,“ “If I Ain’t Got You” and “Fallin’.”

The evening included premieres of two new songs: “Unbreakable,” about how sometimes life and love can be unbreakable, and “Stolen Moments,” which she wrote with Al Green about a romance that shouldn’t exist.

Some special guests joined Keys on stage for several amazing collaborations. Maroon 5’s Adam Levine paired with Keys on a remake of the Rolling Stones classic “Wild Horses.” Keys also sang “Love It or Leave It Alone” with Common and Mos Def and concluded the show with “Welcome to Jamrock” with Damian Marley.

For more information, write Yamaha Corporation of America, Piano Division, P.O. Box 6600, Buena Park, CA 90622, telephone (714) 522-9011, e-mail infostation@yamaha.com; or visit www.yamaha.com.

Photo Credit: Frank Micelotta/Getty Images

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