You Don't Know My Name

Infobox Single
Name = You Don't Know My Name


Artist = Alicia Keys
Album = The Diary of Alicia Keys
B-side =
Released = November 18, 2003
Format = CD single, 12" single, digital download
Recorded = Kampo Studios
(New York City, New York)
Quad Recording Studios
(New York City, New York)
Genre = Soul, R&B
Length = 6:06 (Album Version)
4:27 (Radio Edit)
Label = J
Writer = Alicia Keys, Kanye West, Harold Lilly, J. R. Bailey, Mel Kent, Ken Williams
Producer = Kanye West, Alicia Keys
Certification =
Last single = "Girlfriend"
(2002)
This single = "You Don't Know My Name"
(2003)
Next single = "If I Ain't Got You"
(2004)
Misc = Extra track listing
Album = The Diary of Alicia Keys
Type = studio
prev_track = "If I Was Your Woman/Walk on By"
prev_no = 4
this_track = "You Don't Know My Name"
track_no = 5
next_track = "If I Ain't Got You"
next_no = 6 Extra track listing
altAlbum = Unplugged
Type = live
Length = 3:35
Label = J
prev_track = "Diary"
prev_no = 12
this_track = "You Don't Know My Name"
track_no = 13
next_track = "Stolen Moments"
next_no = 14 Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = single


Lower caption = European CD single cover

"You Don't Know My Name" is a soul–R&B song written by American singer-songwriter Alicia Keys, American rapper-producer Kanye West, and Harold Lilly for Keys' second studio album, "The Diary of Alicia Keys" (2003). Released as the album's lead single in November 2003, it was co-produced by Keys and West, and contains a sample from the 1976 song "Let Me Prove My Love to You", written by J. R. Bailey, Mel Kent, and Ken Williams and performed by The Main Ingredient. The song 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. 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.

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.

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

References

succession box
before = "Step in the Name of Love" by R. Kelly
title = U.S. "Billboard" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one single
years = December 20, 2003 – February 14, 2004
after = "Slow Jamz" by Twista featuring Kanye West and Jamie Foxx