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By Alyssa Debonair Hip Hop Vibe Staff Writer This year, Alicia Keys led a new movement of natural beauty. Since the early days of her career, Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz began dating, in 2009, when he was married to Mashonda. After some friction, Alicia Keys and Mashonda became close friends. The two sat down, publicly, to discuss their past issues, leading to much ridicule, from the internet.
Truthfully, what happened between Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz, and Mashonda will never be known. It’s their business, simply put. But, the world will never stop speculating, and Twitter was roasting Alicia Keys, over the plot of this movie, given what played out, in her real life, as she got with a married man.
Alicia Keys and Lizzo were among the musical stars that used the Grammy stage to pay tribute to the basketball legend Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash mere hours before the ceremony
Alicia Keys – Brand New Me (Studio Acapella)
It’s been four years since Alicia Keys’ last album ‘Girl On Fire,’ and just days after announcing her forthcoming studio LP ‘Here’ — set to be released on Nov. 4 — Alicia Keys treated her hometown…
Shutting down the popular tourist area, Alicia Keys delivered a captivating hour-and-a-half-long show that also served as a loving tribute to hip-hop history, right near the heart of its birthplace. “Momma cooked the soup, Daddy did the yelling, Uncle was a drunk, cousin was a felon”, Keys sang excitedly, as she kicked off her performance with a new track titled “The Gospel,” discussing the difficulties families encounter living in poverty-stricken communities. “I just have to take two minutes, two seconds to just say WOW,” the au naturel R&B diva exclaimed to the thousands of fans gathered in the Big Apple in her honor. “This is incredible, this is my backyard.”
Before blazing through her catalog of hits, Alicia Keys encouraged the fans looking for “Instagram-able” moments to put down their phones and cameras and “be present in the moment” — a play on her album title
When her voice isn’t heard blasting through speakers, Alicia Keys’ voice can be heard advocating for social change through philanthropy (Keep A Child Alive) or fronting her own
“Even in this beautiful place where there’s ‘concrete jungles where dreams are made of, there’s nothing you can’t do’, there’s still… we as women are treated with such disrespect”, a saddened Keys expressed to the crowd. “Even today, the media is more concerned [with] whether I’m wearing makeup or not.” Alicia Keys graced the MTV Video Music Awards back in August bare-faced, and garnered the attention of news sites all over. She wrote an inspiring
Alicia Keys briefly silenced the crowd’s roars as she ended the night with a powerful, heart-rending performance of “Holy War” which she previewed during her speech at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards. Videos of Trayvon Martin protestors and America flooded Times Square’s large screens and the vibrant screens later switched to black and white writing, which read: “Aids is over,” “Violence is over,” “Sexism is over.”


















