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Mar 2024
34m 29s

Alicia Keys Returns to Her Roots with He...

WNYC STUDIOS AND THE NEW YORKER
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In her musical opening on Broadway, Keys tells a story very much like her own life, using her own hit songs—but don’t call it autobiographical. 
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