♪ these covers, t at night >> reporter: so, for the past few years, the 39-year-old married mother of two started doing some hard soul searching, and the result is a book. not a memoir, but more a journal of self-discovery. she goes back to the very beginning, writing about how her mom, terry agello, who was then a single paralegal had a relationship with flight attendant craig cook and got pregnant. your mom talks about how she nearly had an abortion. >> right. even her mother said to her, terry, you never do anything easy, you know? and she was making a really big choice. and at the time i'm sure she didn't even know why she was making that choice exactly. but she knew it. she knew what she needed to do. >> reporter: alone and financially struggling, terry raised her daughter in what was

then one of new york city's toughest neighborhoods, hepburn's kitchen. our interview was called off last week because of concerns about the coronavirus. but her accomplishments speak for themselves. >> she raised a girl in the middle of hell's kitchen, which looked like it sounds, you know? >> reporter: it was rough. >> hard, dangerous, difficult, scary. i can't even imagine as a mother today, me, sending my kid off into those streets because -- but you had to. what was she going to do? she had to go to work, i had to go to school, we had to live. that's how it is. i'm so grateful for her for choosing me and i really appreciate her, you know? >> reporter: did you appreciate it growing up? >> no, i hated it. are you kidding me? i was like, couldn't you give me some space? >> reporter: but the tough love

worked. when alicia keys graduated high school as valedictorian, she was lu somewhat poetic, a contract with columbia records. she ultimately chose the music and wrote the song that would change her life overnight. ♪ sometimes i love you >> reporter: and you write, i want to make sure i say the right words. you were looking for that one song that would raise the hair on your arms and you found it. >> i was actually writing that song already while i was at columbia, and that song was "falling." ♪ i keep on falling >> reporter: that album brought the rewards of sudden fame and all the problems that go with it. alicia says she wanted to please everyone, and that she'd work herself to exhaustion trying to do it.

♪ oh, oh, oh, i >> you start to think that you have to do everything that you can possibly do to make sure that these doors remain open for you. >> reporter: say yes to as much as you can. >> yeah. >> reporter: try to make people happy. >> absolutely. >> reporter: but at the same time, are you making yourself happy? >> you think you're happy, right? because that's what you're here working for, right? >> reporter: this is the point. >> man, this is actually happening, it's great, i'm so happy. and then i think little by little you start to see maybe going too hard. maybe you start to see that you're not getting enough sleep. you're just constantly ignoring your own feelings, your ownemot your own instinct. i have to remind myself, evenou. you're important, and you have to take care of yourself. >> reporter: you still are saying that to you today? >> today, today.

at this point i've created a habit that i have to remind myself. hey, hey, guess what, you should go sit on that couch. you should just relax, because that's just as valuable as all of the work. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: of course, the work is still important to her. she has a new album, alicia, coming out soon. ♪ i know what you're needing >> reporter: but it might be that alicia keys has captured where we all are at this moment. pausing for a little self-reflection. and ready to comeback even stronger on the other side. [ cheers and applause ] >> i think that this idea of being even more accepting of just how i am as i am it, you

know, like i might be in a really [ bleep ] mood. >> reporter: and that's okay. >> i can be there. i'm good. it's okay. because i think that we do this thing where we swallow our truth and we don't let it out. so i'm finished with that. >> reporter: you're letting it out? >> i'm done, i'm done, i'm done with the swallowing and the holding back and, you know, the excusing and all of that, and just being, just being. feels

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that is the break-out hit, take me to church, by the irish sensation hozier. he turned 30 this past saint patrick's day and has a new album out later this spring. hozier discussed his life and music with anthony mason. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: hozier is the stage name of andrew hozier bern. ♪ ♪ who hoped the shortened form would be easier for an audience. but even his fans have had trouble learning how to say it. how is your name pronounced? >> it's hozier. three syllables. >> reporter: growing up in ireland, andrew went to trinity college in dublin to study music

theory, but soon quit because song writing kept calling to him. was that a hard decision? >> it was a hard decision, but i knew in my heart of hearts that i was fooling myself on the path that i was on. >> reporter: hozier had started recording songs at home. >> i had been making demos up in the attic. years as a broke musician, he says, before releasing his first ep. ♪ take me to church >> reporter: take me to church was the first demo you released? >> it was a demo recorded in the attic. >> reporter: at your parents house? >> at my folks' house, yeah. >> reporter: released in 2013, it would hit number one in a dozen countries. how do you account for what happened? >> in many ways at a certain time, the right songs aligned. >> reporter: take me to church was spotify's most viral song of

2014. and earned hozier a grammy nomination for song of the year. how did you handle that? >> i don't know if i did handle it. you just -- >> reporter: it's like holding onto a run away train? >> exactly. you're concentrating too hard on the grip to worry about is there a soft bush you can fall into if you happen to let go. ♪ it's not the way -- >> reporter: hozier spent the next five years working on his follow-up album. getting in the studio with gospel and soul legends, booker t. jones and mavis staples. >> boy, you got so much soul, it's scandalous. it's just scandalous. ♪ and i could cry >> reporter: the duet with staples called "anyone a cried power" made president obama's list of favorite songs in 2018.

♪ ♪ hozier discovered rhythm and blues as a kid, exploring his father's record collection. >> i was in love with that sound, fascinated by it. >> reporter: but when he was about 7 years old, his dad, a blues musician, suffered nerve damage during an operation. >> i wouldn't d much into it, if you don't mind. >> reporter: it still pains him to talk about it. >> it broke my heart in a way you'd never recover from. so, yeah, of course. >> reporter: his mom pulled the family through. rain hozier bern is an artist. >> you could decide you could go on forever and ever and ever, you have to stop at some stage. >> reporter: that's her work on her son's album covers. she also painted the cover of his number one album, waste land

baby, by first getting her son to pose under water at the bottom of a pool. >> mom, you were hoping to drown me. and i had said to mom before, just try to think of the album sales if i do die on this shoot. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: hozier plans to release new music this spring. do you write quickly? >> depends on the song. ♪ i came in from the outside, burned out from a joy ride ♪ >> "take me to church" took me a year. i knew the song wasn't worth finishing until the lyrics were correct. ♪ ♪ it's kind of like tending to a garden. some flowers take longer to bloom, you know? some of them you wake up one morning, oh, my goodness, look at this, geranium.

you know? >> reporter: may you have a lot of geraniums. >> hopefully.

despite social distancing and quarantines, fans of live music are still able to follow their favorite acts online from small bar bands to super stars like garth brooks. ♪ she's so new york and in l.a. ♪ >> he performe or withis wife trisha yearwood and it got more than 5 million views. brooks is being awarded the gershwin prize by the library of congress, which credits him with elevating country music into a national anthem of the american people. before the social distancing order, brook sat down for a chat with norah o'donnellf1 o to it and you don't even have to be listening to hear it. i think it's "the voice" of the common man's soul. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: that soul-moving sound of country music is what has packed arenas with tens of thousands of fans up until this crisis. ♪ sometimes i've been down >> reporter: fans who know all the words to his songs. and they're singing every word of a song like that. >> i'm a guy, so i'm the last guy that's going to say size matters, but it does. >> reporter: brooks says despite all of that success, the lesson in life is that adversity is what makes us stronger and helps us bounce back. >> you've got a bow and arrow, right? the only way that arrow is going to go far at all is it's got to address resistance, right? so for every dreamer out there,

when you hear, no, it cannot be done, just let it keep coming. beuse once they let g of that row, all those nos are what's going to fuel you to turn those dreams into reality. >> reporter: the increased resistance -- >> yes, ma'am. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: much of his music evokes emotion, even tears, especially with one of his signature songs. ♪ if trow never comes >> reporter: what's the end of that sentence for you? if tomororrow never comes? i really feel blessed, lucky, all that stuff. tomorrow never comes, i'm the luckiest guy on the planet. >> and we are lucky to have him. and that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back later for

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