Alicia Keys, as featured on The WB’s presentation of Teen People magazine’s “What's Next” television special hosted by singer-songwriter/actress Mandy Moore in NYC and broadcast in November 2001.

This special was to celebrate and showcase some of the hottest new talent in the industry, with picks from Teen People’s next generation of superstar actors and musicians. Alicia, Ja Rule, Craig David and Nelly Furtado covered the December 2001/January 2002 issue of Teen People’s magazine release.

From Manhattan’s Hammerstein Ballroom on 311 West 34th Street, The WB broadcast live performances by N.E.R.D., Michelle Branch, Blu Cantrell, Craig David, Ja Rule and Alicia. 

Here in NY, artists sat around a round table and got to chat and answer questions from host Mandy Moore backed by a live studio audience. 

And with her piano, Alicia gave a performance at the Ballroom of “A Woman’s Worth.” A song that reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and later became one of her most recognizable hits.

During the broadcast, Mandy asks the singer if the sudden fame has been overwhelming at all, in which Alicia responds optimistically: “I try not to look at it like that, like ‘overwhelming’. I try to look at it like something that has been something that I’ve been striving for, for a very long time. Something I’ve been really wanting to do, and so, to just finally see it manifesting is very—it’s a blessing.”

When asked by Shay Haley of N.E.R.D. of what her next album will be like, Alicia comments: “I’m going somewhere real special. I really want to just dig in kind of deep and bring some different topics to the table. So, it’s gonna be interesting.”

Following up, Pharrell of N.E.R.D. comments on Alicia’s cover of Donny Hathaway's 1973 song "Someday We'll All Be Free" that she performed at the America: A Tribute to Heroes televised benefit concert following the September 11 attacks just earlier in the year: “I was in a house full of girls, and every last one of them was in tears.”