Alicia Keys, “Fallin”
A young and heartbroken Alicia Keys was barely 20 when she wrote her first ballad, Fallin’. “I was going through it bad, but it helped me work things out,” she explained. Her debut single peaked at number one on the charts and won her three out of four Grammy nominations in 2002.
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The song’s music video was different from other R&B tracks of the time. Instead of dancing, Alicia Keys kept it cool by playing the piano and walking the streets of New York with her iconic braids and a long leather jacket.