Alicia Keys

03.07.2004

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Dubbed the new queen of R&B, Alicia Keys was immersed in Soul culture from a tender age. After singing in churches and mastering the piano at the age of seven, the young girl acquired her vocal technique at a well-known school. It was not surprising that she was spotted by Clive Davis, Whitney Houston's producer, who encouraged her to produce her first album, Songs in A Minor. The result: over a million copies sold. An exploit that she repeated recently with her opus The Diary of Alicia Keys. (FFJM © 2004)

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Live Music at its best, Since 1967

Founded by Claude Nobs in 1967, over the years the Montreux Jazz Festival has become an unmissable event for music fans in Switzerland and around the world. Its stages have been graced by all of music’s greats, from Miles Davis to Ray Charles and from David Bowie to Prince.

Whereas Jazz constitutes the Festival’s historic core, other styles of music were quickly integrated into the Festival, bound together by a common thread of mutual curiosity and enthusiasm.

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