Alicia Keys plays what by her standards is a highly intimate show at the Dublin Olympia on June 27.

A five-time Grammy Award-winner, the 23-year-old New Yorker claimed her first number one in 2001 with Songs In A Minor, and repeated the feat with last year's The Diary Of…

Described as "a modern day Aretha Franklin", Keys is also set to make her big screen debut in Composition In Black And White, the Halle Berry-directed story of piano prodigy Phillipa Schuyler.

Tickets for her Irish stop-off go on sale on Thursday May 20 priced €49.50 and €54.50.