Alicia Keys Wants to Addressed the Topic in Order to Ensure the Nation

Alicia Keys took over Times Square, wearing knee five blocks from one of the liveliest districts of the Western world. Concert secret tonight is not so secret. It will charge epic digital billboards and face - little freckles and no makeup. As well as the way these days - flash all American Eagle Outfitters.

Times Square is the backyard of the Keys. He was born in Hell's Kitchen in 1981 and grew up in a one bedroom apartment on 43rd Street between Avenues 9 and 10. His adolescence coincided with the tenure of Mayor Rudy Giuliani: the street is now slightly gentrified, and offers the club the Manhattan Plaza health.

She booked the entire floor of the hotel 57 W to dress for the concert, relax and do this interview in the promotion here, she’s first album in four years. Its complex management system works like an onion. There is an outer layer of nervous young glued to Samsung, an intermediate layer of great characters jackets that emerge before the show and distribute rolling, and an inner layer - confidants and key partners in your company, AK Worldwide: manager long and co-writer Erika Rose and DJ Walton - which among other things. A trainer and voice boxing coach with two full sleeves of tattoos.

Machines around the star there as a buffer, and the Alice suite is almost warm in its serenity. Four silhouettes seated on high-backed chairs as guests to a strange and dark dinner. Two cameramen rushing into the room, turning procedures - everyone from Beyoncé to Janelle Monáe have their own personal film crew these days. Capturing his interview for personal record.

In the corner is a girl with a scarf and jeans who seems so carefree, I think it is another participant. Alicia Keys gets on the couch in socks, lift your knees and starts talking in his soft whisper and young. Times Square was dark, it was a shame, he said. In the 80s when I was a child. The whole area of ​​Midtown was

another world. These are the streets I walked. I learned my lessons and listened to the music. And I saw homeless people and people who had only dreams and hopes. Each pimp every prostitute every drug dealer, every Broadway dreamer who wanted to be a writer, a musician or an actor.

His Italian-Irish white mother, Terria Augello, was raised alone, working as a paralegal in the study of Chadbourn and Parke in Rockefeller Center from the year before his birth until 2001. When the first album daughter, Songs in a Minor, was released. Mom had attended the School of New York University Arts and worked as an actor. He began his maiden four years, Alicia has participated in The Cosby Show as a guest of Rudy Hittable, and you see, small and laugh, walking the Bill leg like a wild horse.

At 12, in 1993, she attended the newly established Professional School of Performing Arts, 10 minutes walk from the house and just off Broadway. Claire Danes and Britney Spears were students at a time. She was educated by Miss Aziza. She said wistfully Aziza Miller. One of the most phenomenal women jazz instructors ever to be born was a pianist, arranger, producer, composer, and was so much capacity voice it was bad and I know for a fact that influenced much of. I converted.

The school kept the streets. You went through the door, you had to be ready to protect you, he said. Be covered only get where they were going. I could not wear skirts. I could not wear heels. On the other hand, was a kind of area where anyone who was not part anywhere else could come in and belong. 

On significant school stage in the main streets of time, all at the age of 20, he was the American dream. When keys released his first single, fall in 2001 and have had some kind of pedigree. He was supported by Clive Davis, who signed Janis Joplin and mentor Whitney Houston. His songs, full of jazz chords and tinkling advice Moonlight Sonata style, attracted a mature audience and young; Another great success, If I Is not Got You, sounds like a classic Motown hits now. She was loved Stevie Wonder and Bob Dylan fell in love with her, wrote to Thunder on the mountain: I was thinking about Alicia Keys, could only cry / When she was born in Hell's Kitchen, I was living on line.

Today at 35 years but 25 years is - strangely - a woman of sound. That dominated pop in the XXI century. The judge's voice with Miles Cyrus.  But lack of melismatic warble of modern R & B. Even his new album here - full of fresh songs that celebrate the confusions and compromises of life - has a closer relationship with the composition neo-soul Beyoncé or Rihanna teams.

It has already been a return - Empire State of Mind 2010 with his friend Jay Z is the greatest song of Sinatra New York. And remained silent, part of the hip-hop elite: Beyoncé knows from 16 years and was one of the first artists to sign with Tidal. She began sponsorship agreements with everyone from BlackBerry to American Express, and has a great career in philanthropy. Then there political, it appeared between Bill and Hillary Clinton the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July. Apparently it was a tough day all year.

It was very emotional, he said. Bernie approached to support Hillary at that time. And there was energy really disappointed. Because Bernie is so expensive and has ideas and ideas so powerful that really resonates.  With the people was this energy to ensure. That there was a great division in the party. Because it would have been devastating. I remember I just wanted to explain that.

She said she sees the possibility of Clinton how powerful they can be women, and then added. It is exciting for me as a black woman, wanting to ensure that all issues are addressed in the States with regard to the race; it comes to blacks - who want to ensure that the message is not lost and that is continually in all our programs, especially Hillary.

Are you confident on the result? I simply refuse to believe that something else will happen, he said. But I also know that this will only happen if we go out and get us to vote. We hope we have a potential. I believe

In 2008, Blender magazine Keys said he thought the Black Panther movement would have if they had gone global musician’s platforms today. Maybe I should start something for her. She thought at the time - Black Lives Matter then appeared and she did not have to. Tidal has made $ 1.5 million gift this year, on what would have been the 21st birthday of Traven Martin. In July, charitable foundations Keys, We Are Here, organized a protest film - "23 ways you might be killed if you're black in America ​​- which featured Rihanna and Pharrell Williams. I wonder what he thought when his former owner, Giuliani said - in response to

Beyoncé tribute to the Panthers in Super Bowl 50. Saved more lives than anyone in black scenario that had

‘I do not pay attention to things that do not need to pay attention’, he said.

Musicians have a very important role in the dissemination of messages, as they are able to reach a lot of people on an emotional level artists reach people in their heart. It's the only time we meet in a place and leave aside our differences. When you listen to music in a forum, all you are feeling at this time is love and understanding.

Key knows her husband, producer Swizz Beatz since I was about 16, but it took years to gather. Kanye West once called Dean, 38, best rap producer of all time. His most unusual awards include global ambassador for the Company Health and Hospitals of the City of New York, and a place at Harvard Business School. Dean already had three children when his first son married Keys in 2010, Prince Nasir, with Nicole Levy, 16 years ago. There is another, Kasseem with composer Harlem Mashonda Tifrere, singer of the song No Panties. And a daughter, Nicole, Jahna Sebastian, whose website says it has helped bring Russia grime.

Key face its share of scandal with the relationship, and covers the new family of single reconstructed. Which includes a direct address to his stepchildren: I know it started with a little drama / hate I had read in the paper / But all is well with me and your mother. This is my personal journey with my family. And the creation of a family that is based on compassion and understanding. She said in his spacious new age. This does not mean an easy road. That's what family is now and has never been a song about how beautiful it is. There is no end to that family dynamics may seem, as long as it is filled with love for children.

His son Fine, he said, called Umi which is Arabic for mother. Kassel Dean is a Muslim 4 year of greatness and happiness 100 inshallah Instagrammed, on their birthday I wonder if he converted to Islam There is a pause, and she said. I love learning about different religions and discover different ways of worship, and love the grandeur and exceed permanently around us all believe in a greater presence, and I really respect all religions. In its core they all teach the same message - the community and the kindness and care for each other.