Les Cool Sessions 3

Here is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Alicia Keys. It was released on November 4, 2016, by RCA Records. The first single from the standard edition, « Blended Family (What You Do for Love) », was released on October 7, 2016. « In Common » and « Hallelujah » were featured on the deluxe edition of the album. Here is Keys’ first album in four years, following Girl on Fire (2012). Keys said that she wasn’t planning a hiatus, but after she finished recording material for the album, she found out she was pregnant which « put a different time spin on things. » Her son Genesis was born in December 2014. In an interview with Humanity magazine Keys said:

the music for this album was created so fast—the fastest I’ve ever created music before. It was like raining down every night, like storms of music was just coming out. It was crazy because I never experienced creating like that; I came in already knowing what I wanted to start to talk about.

The first single from the standard edition, « Blended Family (What You Do for Love) », was released on October 7, 2016. « In Common » and « Hallelujah » were featured on the deluxe edition of the album. Here is Keys’ first album in four years, following Girl on Fire (2012). Keys said that she wasn’t planning a hiatus, but after she finished recording material for the album, she found out she was pregnant which « put a different time spin on things. » Her son Genesis was born in December 2014. In an interview with Humanity magazine Keys said: