You don't know my name
You Do not Know My Name is a R & B - song of the US R & B / Soul - singer Alicia Keys .
Creation and publication
You Don't Know My Name was the first single from their second studio album The Diary of Alicia Keys from 2003. The song was written by Keys and produced with Kanye West. The song was released as the first single on the album in November 2003 and samples the 1974 song Let Me Prove My Love to You by The Main Ingredient . It became Key's third top ten hit in the US and reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was number 1 on the Hot R & B / Hip-Hop Songs chart for 8 weeks. The song won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song at the 2005 Grammy Awards . In 2008, Lil Wayne sampled You Don't Know My Name in his hit Comfortable .
Music video
Directed by Chris Robinson. In the video, Alicia Keys plays a waitress in a café who is secretly in love with a regular (played by Mos Def ), but who hardly notices her. A tombola is regularly held in the restaurant , with a free menu being raffled off as the main prize. In a daydream, she pulls out his business card and receives his phone number. She calls him, confesses her love and proposes a date for him. The two meet at a party and get closer ... That these events only happened in their imagination becomes clear when the regular comes back to the restaurant. Only when the waitress asks him if he would like a hot chocolate (as usual) do they briefly meet. When the regular guest leaves the restaurant again, almost without a word, she remains sad. She looks wistfully after him, wondering if he ever knew that she loved him.
Others
In addition to Mos Def, Keys' mother also makes a brief cameo . She plays a cook.
Charts
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
|---|---|---|
| Chart placements | ||
 Germany (GfK)
|
68 (9 weeks) | 9 |
 Austria (Ö3)
|
48 (4 weeks) | 4th |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
|
26th (9 weeks) | 9 |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
|
19th (9 weeks) | 9 |
 United States (Billboard)
|
3 (20 weeks) | 20th |