Hey guys, Willy Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks is always for my

my money, my money one of the most talented people

currently striding the earth. She is Alicia Keys. 16 Grammys 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 it, you love it. The album is Songs in A Minor. It went to number one.

She won five Grammys 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 Schubert Theater 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, Ali, the lead in this 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 Key's music show, but Alicia Key's 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 screens I can tell you I went to a show the minute they recognize some of those

notes so it is a beautiful show it 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,

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