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Alicia Myers (born November 20, 1957) is an American R&B musician. Beginning her music career with the band Al Hudson & the Soul Partners, who later evolved into One Way, Myers went on to a moderately successful solo career in the early 1980s, scoring hits such as "I Want to Thank You", "Don't Stop What You're Doin'", and "You Get the Best from Me (Say, Say, Say)".
She is a survivor of childhood tuberculosis. She later survived breast cancer in 1998 and has since become an advocate for treatment against the disease.
After her stint in the band, she started her solo music recording career in 1981, with the release of Alicia by MCA Records. This album achieved a Billboard magazine R&B Albums chart peak of No. 41 and featured two of her biggest hits, "I Want to Thank You" and "Don't Stop What You're Doin'".
Her follow-up album, Alicia Again, released later the same year, failed to chart. Her subsequent album, I Fooled You This Time appeared the following year under the same label, and it surpassed the R&B Album chart placement of Alicia, reaching number 27. The high charting success of I Fooled You can be attributed to the inclusion of the aforementioned "I Want To Thank You", which had gained popularity due to DJs such as Tee Scott playing it in heavy rotation, where it was discovered by those who missed it the previous year upon its initial release. Her fourth album, 1984's I Appreciate became her highest-charting album on the R&B chart, peaking at number 12, while also heralding her only appearance on The Billboard 200, where it peaked at No. 186. I Appreciate would be her last album of newly recorded material released in the 1980s.
Universal Special Products re-released her debut Alicia album, with the same exact track listing,Alicia Myers – Alicia album (1981) track listing. as Don't Stop What You're Doin in 1986, without further chart success.
In 2011, Myers released her first album of new material in 27 years, entitled Peace of Mind.
The song "If You Play Your Cards Right" from her debut album is covered often by several artist since its release; most recently by Syleena Johnson on her second album . Chante Moore covered Myers’ song "I Want To Thank You" on her 1994 album A Love Supreme.
In October 2019, a mural by artist Stephen Powers was unveiled on Pier 40 in Manhattan, New York, featuring the words "I WANT TO THANK YOU," inspired by Myers' song.
| + List of studio albums, with selected chart positions ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:16em;" | Title ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:16em;" | Album details ! scope="col" colspan="2" | Peak chart positions | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||
| 1981 | "Reservation for One" | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Don't Stop What You're Doin' " | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Do Your Kind of Dance" | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1982 | "I Want to Thank You" | — | 37 | — | — | ||
| 1983 | "Is It Really Real" | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1984 | "You Get the Best from Me" | 105 | 5 | 5 | 58 | ||
| "Appreciation" | — | 38 | 29 | — | |||
| 1985 | "Just Can't Stay Away" | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1995 | "Goodthing" | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2002 | "A Good Thang" | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2015 | "Right Here Right Now" | — | — | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||
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