You Don't Know My Name
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"You Don't Know My Name" is a song by American R&B-soul singer Alicia Keys from her second studio album, The Diary of Alicia Keys (2003). The track, written by Keys, Kanye West, and Harold Lilly and co-produced by Keys and West, was released as the album's lead single in November 2003, and contains a sample from the 1974 song "Let Me Prove My Love to You", written by J. R. Bailey, Mel Kent, and Ken Williams and performed by The Main Ingredient. It became Keys' third top ten hit in the United States, peaking at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, and also stayed atop the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for eight weeks and it was her first single to reach number one single R&B chart in the United States after 2001's "Fallin'". Furthermore, the song won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song in 2005 and a Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single, Female in 2004. "You Don't Know My Name" was sampled on Lil Wayne's 2008 song "Comfortable" featuring Babyface. Blender magazine ranked the song number thirty-seven on its list of The 100 Best Songs of 2004.[1]
Music video
The video, directed by Chris Robinson, follows Keys working as a waitress at a café. One day, Keys meets a man (played by Mos Def) in the café, and she falls in love with him. Later in the video, Keys gets the courage to call him and to tell him about her feelings.
Remix
The official remix, the Roc-A-Fella Remix, features rapper Freeway.
Personnel
Musicians
- Alicia Keys – lead vocals, backing vocals
- John Legend – backing vocals
- Harold Lilly – backing vocals
- Sharief Hobley – guitar
- Artie Reynolds – bass
- Sanford Allen – concertmaster, violin
- Al Schoonmaker – copyist
- Kurt Briggs – violin
- Alexander Vselensky – violin
- Marion Pinheiro – violin
- Stanley Hunte – violin
- Avril Brown – violin
- Lori Miller – violin
- Xin Zhao – violin
- Richard Brice – viola
- Barry Finclair – viola
- Maxine Roach – viola
- Robert Chausow – viola
- Eileen Folson – cello
- Caryl Paisner – cello
Production
- Alicia Keys – producer
- Kanye West – producer
- Manny Marroquin – mixing
- Tony Black – engineer
- Ann Mincieli – engineer
- Ray Chew – string conductor, string arrangements
Charts
| Chart (2003) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Swedish Singles Chart[2] | 54 |
| Swiss Singles Chart[2] | 26 |
| UK Singles Chart[2] | 19 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs[3] | 1 |
| Chart (2004) | Peak position |
| Austrian Singles Chart[2] | 48 |
| Canadian Singles Chart[4] | 19 |
| Dutch Top 40[2] | 9 |
| European Hot 100 Singles[4] | 62 |
| French Singles Chart[2] | 43 |
| German Singles Chart[2] | 68 |
| Irish Singles Chart[2] | 33 |
| Italian Singles Chart[5] | 17 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[3] | 3 |
References
- ^ "The 100 Best Songs of 2004". Blender. November 23, 2004. Retrieved 2009-05-30.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Alicia Keys – You Don't Know My Name – Music Charts". αCharts.us. Retrieved 2008-01-20.
- ^ a b "The Diary of Alicia Keys > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-01-20.
- ^ a b "Chart Data: Alicia Keys". mariah-charts.com. Retrieved 2008-01-20.
- ^ "italiancharts.com – Alicia Keys – You Don't Know My Name". italiancharts.com. Retrieved 2008-07-21.
