Om het tien jarig jubileum te vieren van haar “As I Am” album, heeft Alicia Keys het nummer WHEN YOU WERE GONE dit weekend uitgebracht als single. Alicia sleepte met de plaat “As I Am” 3 maal platina binnen in Amerika en leverde de zangeres grote hits op als “No One” en “Superwoman”. Over het nummer WHEN YOU`RE GONE meldt Alicia Keys: “This is one of the very first songs I came back from Egypt and wrote. Maybe it was the second song, the first one had a whole Egyptian vibe, I’ll play that for you one day too. But this one really started to create the sound that ‘As I Am’ has. We were experimenting with a lot of keyboards and sounds and styles of recording, and we were all about breaking boundaries and writing things in new ways.”
