Known throughout her career for her raspy soprano voice and intensely expressive performance style, Keyshia Cole is one of the most successful R&B artists to emerge in the mid-2000s. With The Way It Is (2004), the singer, songwriter, and producer came across as a Bay Area equivalent to Mary J. Blige, singing about romantic turmoil with streetwise urgency and candor, but she set herself apart with her second and third platinum albums, Just Like You (2007) and A Different Me (2008), risk-taking sets that produced a total of seven Top Ten R&B/hip-hop singles, plus four Grammy nom...