Video: Alicia Keys Performs "You Don't Know My Name" At World AIDS Day Benefit Concert

Alicia Keys took to the stage last night at New York's Nokia Theatre for a benefit concert in support of World AIDS Day and Keep A Child Alive. In addition to debuting two new songs off her upcoming The Element of Freedom, "Love is Blind" and "Distance and Time," the performance also featured a cameo by Jay-Z, who joined her to close out the show with their hit "Empire State of Mind." In this exclusive video, we showcase one of Keys' biggest hits live from the Nokia Theatre, "You Don't Know My Name."

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Song Stories

“Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Nirvana | 1991

"Smells Like Teen Spirit," named after a brand of deodorant marketed to girls, was Kurt Cobain's attempt to "write the ultimate pop song," he said, using the soft-loud dynamic of his favorite band, the Pixies. Cobain "had that dichotomy of punk rage and alienation," the song’s producer, Butch Vig, told Rolling Stone, "but also this vulnerable pop sensibility. In 'Teen Spirit,' a lot of that vulnerability is in the tone of his voice." Sadly, by the time of Nirvana's last U.S. tour, in late '93, Cobain was tortured by the obligation to play "Teen Spirit" every night. "There are many other songs that I have written that are as good, if not better," he claimed.

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