![]() ![]() 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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