Listen To Your Heart

Album: Girl On Fire (2012)
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Songfacts®:

  • Alicia Keys penned this song with John Legend. The R&B singer-songwriter previously provided backing vocals on the New Yorker's hit single, "You Don't Know My Name."
  • Keys told the crowd before she debuted this song at New York's Lincoln Theater on October 15, 2012: "Even in front of so many people, we forget to listen to ourselves. I love that song very much and I just wanted to share it with you tonight."

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