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I haven’t seen Alicia on tour since she was just hitting the scene, promoting her debut album, Songs in A Minor. I’ve witnessed her immeasurable talent when she freely tickles the ivories without a song in mind. Your mouth is just left wide open.
The E! Channel took some time out to give Alicia some well deserved props, but what’s more impressive than her talent is her heart.
Britney Spears was at Alicia Keys’ concert at L.A.’s Staples Center. And so were Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo.
The show rocked. Man, has Ms. Keys grown into one fantastic jaw-dropping performer. Her voice filled that entire ginormous arena and then some.
During her show, Keys urged everyone to take out their cellphones and text the word Alive to the number 90999 to donate just $5 to help fight HIV/AIDS in Africa through the Keep a Child Alive organization.
If Alicia asks the crowd to send a text at all of her shows, can you fathom how much money she’s going to raise?!!!!
In a time when most celebrities come up with more ways to get money from their fans so they can buy another Bentley or house, Alicia is amazing for creating her organization and reaching out. So impressive. 
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Jordin Sparks will have to temporarily cancel her performances for the rest of April on Alicia Keys’ tour due to a vocal injury. I say it’s nothing a little ejaculation in the back of the throat couldn’t clear up. 
The 18-year-old singer, whose hits include “Tattoo” and “No Air,” was scheduled to be the opening act on Keys’ tour, which kicked off over the weekend in Hampton, Va. Washington said in addition to missing the tour’s first month, Sparks was forced to cancel a planned performance at the Earth Day Network & Green Apple Festival concert in Washington, D.C.
Washington said Sparks is expected to rejoin Keys’ tour in May. “Jordin Sparks is on vocal rest and is expected to make a full and complete recovery,” according to a statement from 19/Jive Records. “Sparks has been going nonstop over the past two years and now she’s going through the normal course of learning how to manage and care for her voice.”
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Alicia Keys will marry her music producer boyfriend Kerry ‘Krucial’ Brothers in New York this summer, according to reports.
Star claims the couple has booked Oheka Castle on Long Island for a ceremony on Independence Day.
Bosses at the 32-bedroom French-style chateau have confirmed a wedding will take place that weekend, but have refused to reveal the identity of the bride and groom.Keys and Brothers have never spoken openly about their relationship. They have been songwriting partners for years, co-owning the KrucialKeys production company and New York’s Oven Recording Studios. A representative for the R&B star has yet to confirm or deny the wedding reports.
This rumor comes from Star magazine. Please. They’re notorious for making up stories. I don’t really believe it, but getting hitched is one of the best ways to squash gay rumors. I think Alicia’s a closet case. I’ve talked to too many people in the music industry who’ve told me so. But you didn’t read that from me *cough.* I dunno.
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After her recent sensational Blender article, Keys has had to do some pointed damage control, explaining that she’s not a government-hating, media-bashing conspiracy theorist. She was just “misinterpreted.”Right. Because there are so many ways to interpret the quote “Gangsta rap is a ploy to convince black people to kill each other”
Alicia said:
To clarify that statement—what I was saying at the interview—the term gangsta rap was so over-sloganized during that time… and that in so many ways, everyday people, as well as the government, could have done so much more to really obliterate and eradicate things that were going on in the community at that time that forced the artists to talk about and discuss so strongly what they saw, what they lived with every day.
As much as people are talking trash about Alicia, little do they understand how many journalists write their articles. They not only edit the hell out of their interviewee’s statements, but they probe and encourage you to make statements like Alicia made.
The journalist who wrote the damn article could have said the same thing first, prompting Alicia to say what she said. I wasn’t there when Alicia held her interview, but I know how a lot of journalists work. I work with many of them who live to expose dirt.
Whether you agree with Alicia or not, I applaud her stupidity for speaking out like she did.
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That subtly sexy siren who sings family-friendly fare is also an out-and-out conspiracy theorist who wears a gold AK-47 pendant around her neck and believes Tupac and Biggie Smalls were assassinated, their rivalries stoked by “the government and the media to stop another great black leader from existing.”
In this issue’s Blender magazine, Keys proves herself to be more Rev. Wright than Aretha, saying things like gangsta rap was a ploy by the government to “convince black people to kill each other.”
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Black Entertainment Television launched in the U.K. with a performance Saturday by Alicia Keys, who had also taken the stage at the Grammy Awards.
Something just isn’t right about that jacket and she’s looking like a blind Rainbow Brite on acid! I still love you anyway Alicia, but your stylist has issues.
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