Alicia Keys News

One of the most heavily marketed and commercially successful artists in recent history, Alicia Keys has talent and smarts. No doubt about it, the former Alicia Augello Cook has benefited from a pricey hype campaign; one industry executive estimates that Clive Davis and his fledgling J Records label spent $20 million breaking her 2001 debut album, 'The Diary of Alicia Keys.'

She has gone on to sell 19 million albums worldwide and win nine Grammy Awards, and despite the heavy hand of Clive, it's difficult to begrudge her success. In a pop industry populated by windup toys, she comes across as the real deal: a classically trained pianist with a strong if not extravagant voice. And though she's a 26-year-old child of the hip-hop era, she also has a deep appreciation for Chopin, Stevie Wonder and Duke Ellington, as well as the Notorious B.I.G. Read more

“She said "It sounds like you're a stripper,'”

Singer Alicia Keys performs on BET's 106 & Park show in BET studios, in this Oct. via Kansas.com

Caption: Alicia Keys. leaving Radio 1's Maida Vale studio after recording a track for the Live Lounge. via ContactMusic.com

Apparently the MySpace site for singer Alicia Keys was victim to a transparent image ruse similar to the one reported by ScanSafe in early October. via About.com

Tucked away within a bucolic Burbank, Calif., neighborhood is a maze of bungalows known as Glenwood Place Studios. via Reuters

“Our national network of 82 radio stations now enables us to offer advertisers an unprecedented access to highly defined audiences at the local level.”

Quick bits are short consumer electronics news and product announcements that have caught our eye over the last few days. via Digital Home Canada

“I looked at the Great Pyramids and I almost broke down... I crawled to the top of the pyramid and I just sang at the top of my lungs. "People walking in acted like I was crazy; I didn't care, it was so poignant for me.”

ALICIA KEYS was so awed by the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, she performed at the top of one. via ContactMusic.com

Keys: 'I can understand lesbian rumors Last Update: 2:38 pm Alicia Keys arrives at the Swarovski Fashion Rocks concert at the Royal Albert Hall on October 18, 2007 in London, England. via WHP-TV Harrisburg

“It's just so important that people are economically prepared”

Categories: Feature Blannie Batts, local chairwoman of the AKA Centennial Celebration, and Dawn Stanley, president of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. via Everything Alabama

“It's not a novelty bit just thrown in. The music is almost like another character, creating a mood, adding to the drama and giving off energy”

Cane, a new CBS drama features the adventures and the happenings in and out of the Duques and Samuels households as they vie for power and success in the rum and sugar business in Florida. via BuddyTV

Send to a friend Special Show: Fashion Rocks! Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson hosted Swarovski's Fashion Rocks, we got exclusive behind the scenes access! Fashion Rocks was a spectacular live event combining ... via Red Dragon FM

“I could steal your soul with my icy eyes”

She's just graduated from college as an aspiring Anthropologist but just can't quite bring herself to be the upwardly mobile corporate-type that her mother so desperately wants her to be. via Australian Broadcasting Corporation