The meshing of modern street funk with its gorgeous, string-laden predecessors is hardly the freshest concept, but the subtlety - and Keys' stunning voice - carries it through. Lead single You Don't Know My Name is built around a sample from the 1970s New York group Main Ingredient's Let Me Prove My Love to You. They could so easily have been full of gauche heart-on-sleeve angst, but fortunately everything is kept in good measure with the listener being drawn into her world of contemporary takes on classic soul. Keys states in her accompanying notes that the 15 pieces of music here are like diary entries. Released two years after the 20-million plus sales of her debut, Songs in A Minor, The Diary of… underlined 22-year-old singer and pianist Alicia Keys' increasing maturity and her significance to 21st century American music.
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