Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

So very excited to bring in my conversation this week with, for my money, one of the most talented people currently striding the earth she is

alicia keys 16 grammies to her name more than 65 million records sold since her debut in 2001

when she was 20 years old the song is fallen you know it you love it the album is songs in a minor

it went to number one she won five grys, and the rest has been history since then. She's got a musical out now on Broadway. It's called Hell's Kitchen was a big hit off Broadway at the public theater in New York and now is graduated and moving up to the Schubert Theater in New York. Alicia is not in the show. You don't go to the show

and see her on stage, but the show is loosely based on her life. She says it's not autobiographical,

but certainly inspired by it. She grew up herself in Hell's Kitchen. She grew up with a single

mother. She learned how to love music while growing up in her building in

Hell's Kitchen. And so the character, Allie, the lead in the show, has a lot of that in her life, too,

but some different things, too. So many parallels with music at the center of it. It's not a big

sing-along to Alicia Keys music show, but Alicia Keys' music is in the show.

She rearranged all of her hit songs so that they would fit into the show seamlessly

with the dialogue, so they do come in and the crowd screams.

I can tell you, I went to a show the minute they recognized some of those notes.

So it is a beautiful show.

It's incredibly well-acted. The singers are unbelievable.

Choreographers, great. So I think people are going to love to see Hell's Kitchen. So Alicia and I

got together the other day. We're sitting just to kind of get your head in the right place on

stage at the Schubert Theater where this show is being performed, Hell's Kitchen. And it is a dream

come true for her as she grew up just around the corner from the theater, four or five blocks,

going to see Broadway shows with her mother. So very cool to catch her in this moment just before

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