By NEW YORK, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Grammy award winning recording artist Alicia Keys is featured on the cover and in an in-depth interview inside the Fall Style Issue of Uptown Magazine which hits newsstands this week.

The article delves into the creation of her new album, As I Am, which will be released on the J Records label on November 13, 2007. Keys talks of her journey to Africa "To find herself" and the emotional road that was the musical inspiration for her current project.

Throughout the piece, Keys speaks candidly about confronting her long estranged father and her battle to overcome depression. "I had to learn to let go," says Ms. Keys in the article and goes on to reveal that she had to "pray at least three times a day" during her search for self.