In her address to the crowd, Keys said: "Let us continue to honor all that is beautiful about being feminine. We are mothers. We are caregivers. We are artists. We are activists. We are entrepreneurs, doctors, leaders of industry and technology. Our potential is unlimited. We rise! We will not allow our compassionate souls to get stepped on.
We want the best for all Americans. No hate, no bigotry, no Muslim registry. We value education, health care and equality. She also performed a version of her hit "Girl on Fire," changing the lyrics to "These girls are on fire.
In March , Keys published a memoir, More Myself: A Journey , in which she reflected on her gritty New York City upbringing and recalled the gift of a free piano that kickstarted her successful career.
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Francis Scott Key was an attorney and poet who wrote the lyrics to the U. Britney Spears has been one of the most successful — and sometimes controversial — solo acts in popular music. Six of her first seven albums reached No. I wrote this song for me and my friend and my mum. We were all going through something. And I was, like, we are girls on fire. It comes from a personal place. I was raised by a woman. And she is for sure, a feminist.
In , Keys eschewed makeup — on the red carpet, album covers, publicity shoots — as a backlash against beauty standards that she felt were forced on her. It made headlines. The move was seen as radical.
It came to a point when I realised I was in this very crazy weird space where I would take my son to school and I was literally stressed out about the way I looked, because I felt I had to look a certain way. It just lands on me so wrong. My skin changed when I started to take care of myself. She recently teamed up with pioneer and spiritual guru Deepak Chopra for a day meditation programme. This authenticity — one notably missing from most celebrity-fronted brands — is what her audience responds to.
Additionally, this representation of Blackness is a significant shift in an area that has long been criticised for whitewashing and elitism. It was an explosion of magic fairy dust that came down, and that's basically what happens sometimes with songs, but it's very rare. I respected my time for the first time, and I respected the value of what that meant and what I was giving up when I spent it incorrectly or when I used it correctly Not taking them for granted.
It's so special. Talking to Scholastic in , she said, "We love to go to art galleries and to the park. We love to do painting days and to visit our family—and we also love to run around our house and just go nuts! As of November , Alicia Keys had never drank coffee. She sipped on almond tea with agave sweetener during an interview with the Daily Mail. In , Keys said eyeliner was her makeup must-have.
In May , she famously stopped wearing eyeliner—and every other kind of makeup , writing on Lenny Letter, "I hope to God it's a revolution. Not my face, not my mind, not my soul, not my thoughts, not my dreams, not my struggles, not my emotional growth. Some people claimed to feel judged, as if Keys was taking a holier-than-thou stance on cosmetics use, while home audiences watching her on TV couldn't help themselves in recommending that she resume covering up.
Do you! It's also about how you process your energy. She comes from a very strong place and she comes from a very kind place. That in itself is super important. But it's about the choices she's making and the products she's using.
It's the work of a good team. And for performances or The Voice , she would perhaps fill in Keys' eyebrows or rub some very luxe tanning serum or pore-erasing mattifier on her face.
Keys signed on to be one of the four coaches on The Voice in for the NBC singing competition's 11th season. She also coached on seasons 12 and It's just hilarious. The four she was referring to were the first-time combination of Keys with first-time full-time coach Kelly Clarkson and veteran coaches Blake Shelton and Adam Levine , the only two who at that time had been on every season of the show.
She has me in stitches. I'm like, 'what is the matter with you, why are you so funny? I missed that part of her career. Find who you are, and don't be so worried about who everybody else around you is When you know something's right for you, you feel it.
And for all you ladies out there: "We are magnificent," Keys told E! News in , asked what advice she had for girls on the path to coming into their own. We don't have to try to change ourselves in any way. We don't have to look like what we think we're supposed to look like. We only need to be ourselves. And once we can kind of let go of all that other stuff, we can continue forward, focusing on our brilliance and what we bring to the table, and what we have to offer—and what we have to do, and how to make it happen and how to come together and do that and change things.
Despite how it all ended for Swizz and Mashonda and began for Swizz and Keys, the three have since made amends. I mean, we hang out with each other. We go to dinner together," Keys, who sang about their dynamic on her song "Blended What You Do for Love ," said on Good Morning America in October in an appearance with her husband and Mashonda, who wrote a book about their experience called Blend , with a chapter from Swizz and foreword by Keys.
It is a beautiful partnership. And that is really, really special. I'm very, very proud of that. It's a real thing and it's possible. Kasseem acting out was a sign that they all needed to "do better" as co-parents, Mashonda explained. We worked on our relationship. We healed. We healed our children. We gave them an opportunity to see us growing. And that's the real blend. That healing is the first step to blending. Inviting Keys to her son's 6th birthday party was a turning point for her.
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