Alicia Keys - A Woman's Worth

OCT 2001

Alicia Keys - A Woman's Worth (2001) Director: Chris Robinson Era: Post-Millennial Neo-Soul / R&B Renaissance (2001) - Alicia Keys' breakthrough debut era, characterized by organic soul instrumentation, piano-driven songwriting, and socially conscious R&B during the early 2000s commercial peak of the genre High curatorial value as a confirmed-directorship, award-nominated video from a pivotal year in R&B history. Functions as both a standalone empowerment narrative and as Chapter 2 of a two-part cinematic story with 'Fallin'.' Featured in VH1's 50 Greatest Women of the Video Era (2003). Essential for any archive documenting neo-soul's visual language, Brooklyn as cultural landscape, or the early career of Alicia Keys. Context: Released October 2001 as the second single from Alicia Keys' debut album Songs in A Minor (J Records), 'A Woman's Worth' arrived at the apex of the neo-soul and piano R&B movement. The video's Brooklyn-set realist narrative, a direct sequel to 'Fallin'', depicts urban Black life with dignity and emotional complexity, resisting the glossy excess common to contemporaneous R&B visuals. The self-empowerment theme intersected with broader early-2000s feminist cultural conversations. The song won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Song in 2002, and Keys swept five Grammy Awards that same cycle, positioning this video as a document of one of the most culturally significant artist debut moments in modern R&B history. Director notes: Directed by Chris Robinson for Squeak Pictures; shot entirely on location in Brooklyn, New York. The video is a narrative sequel to the 'Fallin'' video, also directed by Robinson. Cinematography credited to Juan Carlos Perez (as John Perez) per IMDb. The video premiered on BET's 106 & Park on October 16, 2001. Nominated for Best R&B Video and Best Cinematography at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards. Robinson went on to direct additional Alicia Keys videos including 'Karma' and 'You Don't Know My Name,' establishing a sustained creative partnership.