We all have that dream of making it to where we want to be in life and watching Alicia as she achieved her various dreams makes me even more driven. I love that she is humbled by her whole career and I hope to do the same as I venture into life on my own. We are relatable as people and I genuinely respect that. Way to go Alicia!
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I really get this - and is really relevant to me right now. I think I went to your site in search of assurance and I've found it especially in these last few sentences. Someone once told me that I was the page of wands sending out various shoots everywhere I go, never knowing where they will end up or how they will sprout (if at all) so good one - you were right on the money with this shoot for me thanks. Watched some youtube clips of some of your newer songs. i like the part in 'like you'll never see me again' when you go 'you're beside me' i like the way it sounds and how it makes me feel.
Alicia, CONGRATS on baby Egypt Daoud Dean !!!. I can think of no more deserving human being. You are an angel on this Earth. Kids love you, Adults love you and you have a generous spirit. Tom, NY
MRS. KEYS,
I AM A STUDENT ATTENDING THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY AND AM A PART OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS CLUB. WE(THE MAJORITY OF THE SCHOOL), ARE FANS OF YOU, YOUR MUSIC, INFLUENCE, AND HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS AROUND THE WORLD. YOU EMBODY THE TYPE OF PERSON THAT THE NAVAL ACADEMY WANTS TO GRADUATE. STRONG, INDEPENDENT, CONFIDENT, AND DISCIPLINED LEADERS THAT SERVE OUR NATION. YOU SERVE THROUGH YOU MUSIC AND EFFORTS WHILE WE LEARN TO SERVE IN OTHER WAYS. BLACK HISTORY MONTH IS COMING VERY SOON AND THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS IS BEGGINING TO PLAN EVENTS FOR THE UPCOMING MONTHS. WE ARE SPONSORING A SERIES PERFORMANCE WHICH WILL BE THE HISTORY OF MUSIC FROM AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS AND A POETRY LUNCHEON ALONG WITH OTHER EVENTS DURING FEBRUARY. IF THERE IS ANY POSSIBLE WAY THAT YOU COULD CONTRIBUTE TO IDEAS OR HAVE THE TIME IN YOUR BUSY DAY TO SPEAK TO US FOR A MINUTE IT WOULD BE BEAUTIFUL AND NO ONE WILL EVER FORGET IT.
ON BEHALF OF THE BRIGADE OF MIDSHIPMAN OF THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY,
PEACE AND LOVE
BRANDON CARTER
ALICIA, JUST WANTED TO SEND YOU AND YOUR HUSBAND ,CONGRATULATIONS ON THE BIRTH OF YOUR NEW SON. MAY HE BRING YOU MANY NEW INSPIRATIONS AND FILL YOUR HEART WITH JOY,SONG ,AND MOST OF ALL LOVE. MOST SINCERLY REBECCA MADORE,AKA,BECCABOOP
Hi Alicia =)
What you wrote right here and in many of your other blogs, is exactly why I love the music you've been able to share with the world and the person that you are. You the realest. <3
Your fan Joyce
Wow! I just became a part of your fan club, and Im just reading what you've typed about new talent frolicking among our midst. I would very much like to comment that indeed, when looking around you and realizing what others had to do in order to be apart of the American Dream, it amazes myself as well. Here they all come...the young, the old, the meek, the unfortunate,...all coming to pursue something that only few can be able to withhold. They realize the gifts the Lord has blessed them with, and to be honest, I totally give them credit for having the guts to go up there and the chance to shine. To be honest, I was not blessed with enough courage to step up infront of many crowds and sing, but I continue to work on it. I guess it all depends on whether or not you have the drive...the ambition...the taste of wanted bliss.lol The dream is near and upon each and every other person who's striving to make it. All we have to do is run towards it, and let God handle the rest.
I'm really glad I was able to read your blog...even though, it's been there for months!
*** off topic and all, but I remember being 11 years old,...I was in the 6th grade. Music was just becoming to be important to me. I was a little RnB child, so I was only singing songs my mother and father had me listen to back in the good ole 90s. Singers such as Brandy, Monica, SWV, En Vogue,...and yes, my all time favorite, Tevin Campbell! During the year of 2001, I didn't come close to finding an artist that really could reach into the depths of real music for me. I found myself searching for artists that could feel what I was feeling...make music into pure and exotic masterpieces. That was when I was listening to the radio one day and my father turned on the radio, with the DJ introducing your music to the world for the first time. I listened...and remember being mesmorized. I had to hear more, and low and behold, my father bought your first album as soon as it came out. I remember playing your music everywhere I went...well, almost everywhere! I I related your music to my life...and I felt like you were living my life, almost. You knew...you just knew exactly what I was going through, even though I was so young. I felt your emotion, your realness, your every vocal put into a single note...it captured me. Now, I'm 20 years old, inspiring to be an author for my very first poem book and hopefully a song writer...and maybe a vocalist, if the Lord permits. Still in school and reaching my goals, but I make it through the day with just popping my earphones on, listening to EVERY album you've ever released. I would like to thank you SO much for inspiring me...capturing me with not just your unique music, but your lyrical abilities. It's music that needs to be heard more often, and I for one, can never get tired of the work you put out. Your music is greatly appreciated, and I thank you thank you...THANK YOU...for bringing this shy little girl out of her box and showing her how to become a woman with something good to give to the world. I love you, Alicia Keys! God Bless
Alicia, Thank you so much for sharing your talent with us. In the short 24 years that I've been living I've been through so many things and so many of your songs really reach my soul. I have a 3 year old son who was born with a condition called Apert Syndrome (a craniofacial disorder) and he has to have surgeries to expand his skull, among other types of surgeries, often. He has already had 8 surgeries and has many more to come. I always play your music during his recovery because it is a nice, familiar sound that we love. The past few surgeries, they have been tying him to the bed and they have to stitch his eyes closed because his head swells so much... and he tries to pull and tug the wires... I believe that the music is what calms him when he is not allowed to see or move, and there is no explaining to him the reasons 'why'. I can't thank you enough for that! Thank you so much Alicia--don't ever go away. I hope that as he gets older and has to start dealing with body image or kids teasing him, you and your music will still provide a safe escape for my baby! Ethan and I love you so much!
hi alicia, am a italian boy.
my dream is coming to New York, the "concrete jungle"
to know the place where my passion for five years, break dancing.
sorry for my bad speak English. I want to come to dance in New York.
I hope you read this comment. your songs are beautiful. i love you.
please let me dance for you. Italy in my talent is lost
WOW. Being pulled over by the Police is a different experience as a man then as a woman. I went to East Providence today to a store that sells mobile phone and wireless accessories. I was going to sell my old cell phones to the man behind the counter. I was told by someone that there is a mobile store that buys back old phones. This didn't seem strange because I know that 98% of cell phone can be recycled for parts. I usually go through Shelter Alliance; there a non profit organization that if you are working for a non profit can send your phones through the mail and they send you a check for them in the mail. They then recycle the parts. When I changed cell phone vendors for the non profit that I work for the new sale account took our old phones and sold them for us on EBAY and gave us the money for them which was better then Shelter Alliances pay for old phones. The problem with Shelter Alliance is that they pay very little for the phones and you wait months. So when I heard there was a mobile phone shop that will purchase the phones I thought great. I had gone down there the other day and sold him some of the old phones and there was no problem. Although I did find it strange that he didn't even ask me to verify that indeed they weren't stolen, were in working condition. He didn't even asked me my name, just handed me cash and I left and went back to the office. I have had no reason up until now to think that reselling old cell phones is against the law. So when I went into the mobile shop that I had been in the day before with my 3 cell phones in my hands I wasn't expecting what I witnessed next. After I walked in an East Providence police officer walked in a asked to speak to the owner. It's funny because the officer looked at my face and I looked him in the eye and knotted with a smile as if to say hello before he had gone into the other room to speak with the owner. Then he left, but before he did I was listening because I had a really weird feeling in my gut. But I couldn't figure anything. So I was listening a little to their conversation and I heard the officer ask the owner for proof that he had the right to sell. And then the owner came out of the back room and took his retails sales license off the wall and went back into the room. And then that is all I could make out before the officer came out and left. The owner then said to the girl behind the counter that he was leaving. And the girl then said that I was was there to speak to him. He recognized me from the day before and smiled. I said are you buying cell phones? I have three. He said that he couldn't until he got a different license and mention briefly what had happened with the officer. Apparently so kid said he sold him a cell phone that didn't work or something to that matter. But he said very en-surely that I should come back in a week or so because he was interested in buying them from me. I said okay and left. As I was on my way out, he was walking out to his car that was parked next to mine and he smiled and said you know how it is and got into his nice BMW gray very new and shinny car and drove off. I shrugged my shoulders smiled and got into my car. I was driving about a two blocks down the street and I noticed that a East Providence police officer was behind me. I slowed from a mere 30 mph to 25 just to be on the safe side not knowing the true speed limit of the area. I then noticed the lights came on the police car and so I pulled over shocked that I was being told to pull over. The police officer approached me and I recognized him as the same police officer that was in the mobile store from a few minutes ago. He came to my window and said lic, registration and proof of insurance and I said hello officer is something wrong. He then firmly repeated to me, lic, registration and proof of insurance. At which time I handed all that information that I had already had in my hand when he approached me to him. I said hello and knotted that your the officer who was just in the store. And I plainly told him that I was going to sell him my old cell phones. And he asked how I knew he buys cell phones back And I said someone had told me. He pressed me for who and I just said I can't remember and asked if there was something wrong. And then he said you smell like weed. Have you been smoking pot? And then as I said no he said step out of the car and put your hands on the back of your car and stay there. And I started to laugh but quickly stopped and said to him that I don't smoke pot. And he said you sound and smell like you have been smoking. And I realized because my voice is changing due to the testosterone I'm on that my voice sounds like I've smoked a few packs of cigarettes. And as he stuck his hand in my right pocket and padded me down he said then why do you smell like weed. I said maybe because sometimes I where poturili oil that some people say smells like weed or earth or dirt. And then I said I'm working. And he said what does that have to due with the price in China. And proceeded to then go into my front seat and search my car. I was watching him closely. And my first instinct was to go up to him and tell him to stop. And it's a good thing I fought my instincts because he had his back to me and as soon as I thought to, I saw his guy in his holster and thought he is going to think I'm trying to cause trouble and he may pull his gun, or he may hit me. I was thinking f*** he could plant something on me and take me for s***s and giggles. I thought this is what's it's like to be an man in America. I thought I'm glad I'm not a black man today. I thought of my best friend whom is a black man. I thought I wonder what the officer would think if he knew that when he forcefully put his hands in my pockets that I do still indeed have woman parts. I thought how different it is to be pulled over by a police officer as a man then when I was seen as a woman, or thought of as a lesbian. I thought what would he do to me if he knew I was transgender male. I thought regardless of gender, creed, race, sexual orientation, even if my nose was blue, .... this is bulls*** this is unjust. I thought wow police officers have to deal with a lot of s***ty people however I am not one of them and there is no excuse. As he handed me back my Identification, my Proof of Insurance, and my registration to my G20 Infinity I said Thank you and drove away.
I came back into the city through way of the Henderson bridge; an old fixture I rarely use and it brought me by the Wayland Square area and by a Starbuck. I thought f*** it, I'm stopping. I had just had a coffee two hours ago, I needed to stop . ..I just needed to sit still. I was frazzled by what had just happened to me. So I went into to Starbucks, waited for a few minutes in line until I was greeted with, "Can I help you sir?" I ordered a tall coffee, and stood there looking downward at the tip of the counter. My eyes were glazed, my mind exhausted. ...I really needed desperately to be reminded that there was beauty in the world. And as I shook my head side to side in a downward position my eyes came upon, Alicia Keys, her new CD; "The Element of Freedom" ... I put my hands on it like the memory of the first time I'd ever touch the bare skin of a breast on a woman. I smiled wildly, holding back with brief shy expression on my face and said "I'll take this too". I gladly paid the USD $12.95 asking to the cafe counter Briasta or what ever their said position is according to Starbuck and blurted out that I had just been stopped by the police, and had to stand with my hands on the trunk of my car for nothing, I randomly chuckled in utter stutter and mention that I couldn't imagine if I'd been a foreigner that although my experience with the police was miserable and total unjust that I was probably one of the "lucky ones" because of the color of my skin and said perceived persona of a "white male". And took both coffee and CD to the counter to fix my "tall". When I got in my car there was chaos in the parking lot, someone trying to pull in. I was starting to pull out. And someone was behind the person who was trying to pull in. And yet still another someone cleverly parked before the dumpster awaiting my parking spot. And I chuckled to myself again and proceeded to command the chaos. As I drove off, Alicia Keys spoke to me. .... "And the day came when the risk it took to remain tightly closed and bud, was more painful then the risk it took to bloom, this is the element of freedom." She spoke those words and the words melded to my insides, my gut slightly sideways like a half smile I'd get from a woman I'd just met but somehow knew was gonna love me so good I had better pay attention NOW. Things were brought back to natural order of all things good and inherently right in this world for me in that moment. I am so grateful that God has created artists and poets. I am so grateful for their existence. They truly bring magic to me. Today they save me from cowardly giving up from begrudging the whole world for my burden, my pain, my cross to bear ... "Love, ... it will come find you, just to remind you, ... of who you are." -Alicia Keys. "No one can get in the way of what I'm feeling".... Alicia Keys thank you. -Mac
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Hi Alicia,
who knows if you really read all these comments, maybe in rainy days..or maybe you will do it now that you'll be mom..
2morrow I'll have an ability test at the university so I'm nervous, and...since YOU bring me to a certain (what can I say it) 'balance' I'm watching the episodes of The Story of Alicia Keys on youtube and I want to say only 3 words : I FEEL YOU.
I feel your music, your soul and as you said 'let the music go, let the people fell the music'.
Thank God the world knows you
One of your biggest recording artist fans is Sean Paul. He has been telling interviewers, for nearly a year, that his dream collaboration would be to do a duet with you. He says he really appreciates the passion that comes through in your songs and he would love to collaborate with you. Grant a wish, why don't ya! Holla at Sean Paul, the reggae artist, and do a collab with him.
hi my name is sheranna gittens i'm from trinidad and tobago i think thats great you actually get to steal a glimpse to watch those shows but you shouldnt take life for granted enjoy it to the fullest with the ones you love and care about even if you dont know some one because we are all different and special in our very own way 2 someone else we should appreciate and love everyone i've experience alot of young people in my life just by a glimpse of the eye and there lives were taken away and i just sit and wonder if i have been the best i could 2 everyone i know a good mom? yes i'm a mother of a handsome young boy lorenzo gittens is his name he will be 1 year old the 3rd september 2010 he is the greatest joy in my life you would see how your whole life would change when your baby is born well just keep safe and have a safe delivery may god bless you and guide your family keep you away from harm love always sheranna
I love the way you write. Wether it's to the fans or in a song it's always so deep. I've been listining to you since i was 3 and now I'm 13. You're the one who inspired me to play piano and Lately I've learning a lot your songs. I will always be your number 1 fan and will always love you.
Alicia,I think that u have an amazing attitude,I have alway's liked u,ALTHOUGH,The last Couple of month's I have actually been addicted to your music I love all of your album's ,ALTHOUGH,My favourite's are 'As I am' and 'Element of Freedom,I remember when u performed on Britain's got talent' and me and my sister @shanicey2000 were dancing to your newest single 'Try sleeping' with a broken heart' We replayed the song over and over!!!!!
I love u so much NOW
Everybody think's of me as'The 1 who love's Alicia'
I also love the fact that we have the same name and the same hair kinda!!!!!
Please Can u follow me on twitter!?
@Elishaa_xo
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Alicia, I'm glad you kept pushing and never gave up. I can't imagine NOT enjoying your music. You have came a long way and just keep getting better. The passion you show in your music is like no one else. I hope you continue to have that drive and desire for a long, long time. Your perseverance shows you are an extremely strong person. I wish you the best, and I know you're only going to continue to be even better. LOL Peace
Alicia I completely agree. I too share a great passion for music it's what helps me get through every single day. But I also have a great passion for my family and I hope you could help me out. My sister Stephanie adores you. You are her inspiration and she has all your CD's. She believes as do I that you are the only one who is truthful these days in their music and can really connect with their fans. So if you get the chance in the next week or sooner could you please call her for her Birthday? Even if she doesn't pick up I'm sure you leaving a message giving her some wisdom or just telling her she's beautiful will make her day. She is turning 21 on the 30th of July and could really use some wisdom or kind words from others. Her number is 289 888 3074. I hope you are doing great and if you need some ideas for songs I would love to help you. I write songs all the time. And I wouldn't care to get reconition, just hearing one of my songs knowing myself I created it and tons of people can relate to it and that I would be helping an artist out would be good enough for me
Sinscerly Alysha Snow
Alicia Keys, your words are gorgeous. Made from your mind to pick anyone up from their feet.
To continue from where they are with STRONG motivation.
From the work you do AND the empathy expressed in this blog, it is simply shown that your heart is warm and [most importantly] motivated. Not only motivated to do good, but motivated to be HEARD.
One can recognize that by sitting down on a couch or beging for a work day to be finished [everyday] will NOT get you anywhere in this world.
Through your natural power, you refused to make laziness conquer your life.
To wrap it up, I can only hope that you continue to produce good deeds to this corrupt world and continue to show the world that there ARE still good people out there.
I hope to one day marry a girl with your similar characteristics.
Big ups to the Family and the soon to be family!
God blesss
Haha, Its funny some of us write so much hoping that Alicia Keys is somewhere out there and would actually read this with her own eyes and not her assistant or helper. I must say it's good being here because Alicia is my favorite singer since she caught my atention when her new single broke out I keep on falling, I was doing something and i stopped, looked at the tv screen and my eyes were glued. I watched and listened to her every move, and I though she was the most beautiful thing and most talented put together. since that day until today I keep on falling and still follows her every move. But why?? am i a stalker?? Am I crazy? No im not. Its because I see in Alicia Keys my dreams, who I would like to be. Unfortunately, like many other unfortunately's this didn not happen because of choices. Its not easy to stand up and say I want to be a singer or a musician in a world that forces you in the opposite direction. At the moment I am painting, modeling and studying Politics in a University in China, but if I had to do it all over I would have swapped my classes to sit on a piano every day of my life and write my own songs and still get time to paint. And I would have wanted to do nothing else but these three things.
Without futher blabbing, I wish Alicia Keys all the best! millions are still trying to be where you are and because of this you are truly blessed. You have the world looking at you and I know you are beautiful inside out, so with this power you can change things and you are doing just that. Love you Millions!
I loved reading this blog, thank you so much for posting it. It's great to know that after all these years, the energy and drive that it takes someone who is dedicated to their art is still recognised by someone like yourself.
I feel and felt the connection of your words so strongly as I know an artist in London called Kelly Erez who has such a drive and commitment to making music. She's really getting out there right now and picking up some good word of mouth online.
She's an R&B Soul artist that has a warm deep soulful voice that moves you, the kind of voice you do not hear very often but should should be heard everywhere. I know someone who knows her and I personally am looking forward to seeing here playing in London in September.
I thought of so many ways how to began writing this comment and I went from situation to situation in my mind and I came to the thought to just be real and be me...and than I read "between reality and the dream." and you've probably heard this before Alicia...every word that you explained then and there is exactly how I feel in my life today. I've been singing since I was 3, writing lyrics since I was 7and haven't stopped ever since. It was everything I loved to do and everything I was living for...I wasn't going to stop until my lyrics and rythm were heard...and than along my life I got side tracked and made some poor decisions. I fell in love and had two sons at a young age. Don't get me wrong I never stopped writing and I was always singing from time to time...but it felt like something was taken and left an empty hole in my heart. I was trampled by life and I felt like I wanted to beathe and be me again, but somethings just kept bringing me down. I know I can be somebody and I have great lyrics that I want to expose to artist so I can write for them...I know I have original talent and can make a difference...I still haven't given up...but I need your help...by any chance if any time in the future you get a chance to read this please let me know what I can do to make my dream become reality...I don't want time to run out...my lyrics are clean and creative...I keep my faith in God but I just need a chance to shine...maybe by chance you'll give me that oppotunity...
respectfully,
Iriana Monique
Congratulations on your new baby, they change your life in so many ways...but will always have your heart before anyone.
Hey Ms. Keys!!
Although there is little chance of you reading this, due to your undoubtedly busy lifestyle, but I just thought I'd send you some thoughts, contained in a warm, fond message sent from my brain to yours. It is so great that people can connect using these small technological machines, even though were over 4,000 miles away from each other!! I am currently residing in my home, in the unfortunately not-so-sunny realm of Liverpool, England.
ANYWAY, my name is Chris Carr, and ever since as far back in my life as I can remember, I have had an unquenchable thirst for every aspect of creative arts, but music in particular. I remember being young, and coming home everyday from school and, instead of doing homework, writing short stories or drawing or writing silly songs, banging on boxes and having fun making invisible sound from visible objects.......just playing around, as kids do. Somehow, I still did ok in school, haha, I quite enjoyed it!!! But homework, when all you want to do is paint and get messy as a kid, is the last thing in your mind!!
As I grew older, I did all I could to hang on to the one constant in my life - art. Music became my biggest passion, while my love for painting and writing still remained somewhat in the background. I learned from my friends, from musicians that I admired, from things that I would see or sounds that I would hear while walking anywhere. But, yanno what?!?!?! It became harder and harder and harder everyday to maintain strong and keep my intentions focussed on what it is that I love most - music. I think that these difficulties in maintaining my focus on music mostly came from my family, and generally the surrounding society in which we all live. Nobody seems to believe that the creative arts are worth pirsuing, in the area were I live. It is a common thing in the town of Widnes to just move into an easy job when you come of age and earn money to keep you afloat and under a roof. I got treated with pure indifference by my family and friends as I was growing up. Instead of supporting me and my ambitions, they would have preferred me to just get a job and be financially stable enough to look after myself. It might have been done out of love that they were doing this, in an effort to assure themselves that I would have the ability to look after myself. But as your song says, "love is blind", and those that were closest to me ended up alienating me, making me feel bad that I was so hellbent on establishing myself as a musician and having a creative career. As you said, you understand that NEED, that DRIVE to get were you are going, while enjoying the ride along the way.
To cut an already too long story a wee bit shorter, as you know, times change and people change. I grew older (not too old, I'm only 21!) and kept my eyes focussed on what it is that I love most, and what it is that invokes happiness in me on every level. I carried on painting and writing, and played my guitar and wrote songs more than ever. And EVENTUALLY, I have now ended up integrated into the arts community around the North West of England, playing as a session musician and writing songs with bands, writing my own songs, also being in a band with my best friends (we supported Okgo!!), and just generally lifting my dream out of head and turning it into reality. Slowly but surely, my persistance is paying off!!
I do apologise for this rant Alicia, it could have been cut shorter, but I just wanted to tell you about my experiences, and how I agree with you about how we all have an inner voice, an inner calling, that we can focus on and follow. It is a beautiful thing!! Those talent shows do not make the greatest TV, but I do agree that you can empathise with every person who tells their story and how they had to face challenges in order to pirsue their dream!!! I like the idea that through art and our mutual ventures in creative exploits, we create a global (universal?!) community of like minded people. Art - the great communicator. It's breath taking
Finally, there have been many artists over my life so far who have inspired me to keep my dream alive, at whatever cost. Of course, you are one of them!!! You have inspired me so much.....you are an amazing musician and a great, posotive musical spirit.
So, I have digressed WAY too much, and I apologise for writing this much, when all I really do want to say, for all your inspiration and beautiful music and hard work and persistence and love and light, is this........................... - - -
THANK YOU.
Love & Light
Chris Carr
Hey, first of all, i am not sure if u gonna read it or not..But that's ok..
I am from Brazil, and some days ago, i saw you on the tv in africas open..
And, always when i see one of your videoclips, or pictures, or only your face, i just stay freeze.
I know it sounds crazy, but i really feel good looking to you, what about your music? Oh, i listen it every day, for sure, when i hear ur voice, i feel good, and you know what brings me down?
I know you are a person,like everybody, but i feel like so good looking to you, i feel in love, can you belive that? I know i can't. But it's true.
I dont know how to express my words in english, but u know when you see somenthing, that makes you better inside of you? Did you never looked to your love, and thought like, uau how i feel good inside of me looking to this person, i dont know how to explain but, it makes me good.
And its crazy but in my mind i see me with you, and always come to my mind, hey, wake up she will never even know ho is you.
I know that everything sounds crazy and you should hear that like 5 times in the day, but to ME is very important. Very important.
I see you, the thinks you do, the way you are, the way you smile, and i feel perfect, i feel like how i gonna do to see her one day? haha
I know, IF you read that, maybe u will be laughing on me now..but its real, i see that you're the kind of person ho i want to my life, a peace life with a very nice person.
Your smile, i cant explain,make me feel inside of me in love. It's like a platonic love without return.
And i know it's not your fault, you are a busy woman, with a beautifull life ahead.
I just came here (that i never thought i would come here) to say to you that you're a perfect woman, and i wish so much you reading this, i want so much an answer, i know it's impossible, but we have to try right?
Maybe i see you in real life? hahah sounds fun, but my heart stay with you all the days to stay good.
Well, that's it. crazy? Idiot? I don't know, but like you do, i did too..I expressed my feelings in letters...
Well, despite my musical reality it's very different, with other variants, i think i can understand it. I think it's good to remember the "old energy" full of expectations, but I think too, that this is something you need to develop and not only a memory. And when I say developing, I mean that it's not positive to remain with the same ideas, with the same expectations. Ok, its good not to forget it, sometimes all becomes too professional, but I think that in the end, I'm not totally proud of this "young man" of the past. I don't have anymore this same voice, despite I can use some "parameters" of the past, that are easily lost, and it's good to remember it.
Maybe I could summarize it like that: the main point is that there is like you said a NEED (i would prefer the word HUNGER), and this is something not easy to maintain. But this HUNGER should desire every time different (and maybe) bigger expectations.
Anyway, you say that people we are not so different. I disagree, at the end you only connected with one of them, and I think that the feeling was just like "I connect with THIS person, how near I AM with her". I think it was special precisely because of that.
So this is my first day on your site.. and I've read somethings that I think those things are so special. Some words we people can't speak out loud and you just do, so thank you.
'' It's always a powerful realization that in every way, we as people are never so different from each other. ''
I think that you're absolutly right, because we people are not different mabye on the outside but on the inside
we are the same, those emotions I have someone else has it too! We all cried, we all smiled but we people think that if you're famous you're a different person, but the evidence is right here: Alicia Keys. I will never believe that famous people are different, they feel the same as we do and they can connect so simple with
somebody. Thankyou Alicia, and everybody @ this site has that same link: we all adore music.
Hi Alicia, I want to be your first white girl back round singer. I wanted to be the first girl to play drums but it didn't happen. Now a new goal-I adore your voice-hope you'll adore mine.)
mizz keys u inspire me in soo many ways as you do so many other people! im a young mother who is 18 , and i have two beautiful children . music is my therapy .... music is where i find strength ....and i wonder if ill ever come across a song that sings about a young mothers struggle , love, accomplishments , and determination. there are millions of young mothers like me in the world... and most media or what have you, dissregard us. there will always be negative in being a young single mother, but the thing is ... im waiting for someone to find the beauty in it. i come to you , to ask if you would ever listen to my story , and see the power it holds. my children are my everything ... and im glad to say , ive survived being a young single mother and am graduating this year. i always hear song about partying, hustling,love, romance, ......... but i would love to hear a beautiful women sing about a young mothers struggle as apose to a young mans hustle.... not that u sing about a mans hustle or game .... but a women such as yourself holds much power and love... and only a women like u could strongly represent love in such a way ! thank u for listening miss keys ... u are my superwomen <3 i can only hope i get a response , but i also understand if i dont . ur a busy women! my email address is emerald_janell@hotmail.com ........ thank u alicia <3 much love , janell jackson
Im writting to let you know how much I enjoy the albums you make. I have all four of them.The first one I got was Songs in A minor. Then I bought The Element of Freedom, after seeing your video's. Sleeping with a broken Heart. That was a song I needed to hear, because you know were humans trying to get connected to our solemates. Our love can be so strong we could get involved with one another. And people all around the world see that its time to say "yes" to feeling one love. It's important for us to work toward it. The picture of my destiny won't knock at my front door, I SHOULD GO GET!!!!
I used to watch your videos in high school, and always thought you had a sweet style, with your breads rockin the piano. Iv read the blog on your site and was interested about your toast to the year 2010 as the year should fill our cups. The cup we hold won't fill itself. We must do it. Iv read your twitters about your trip to Africa during this summers World soccer Cup. Supporting Keep a Child Alive. I see your ways of spreading the light. I try to spred the light by creating art. I'll be showing some pieces on my site. www.Baldinelli.com. Iv had meny shows in my home-town London,Ontario,Canada. and a couple at my Ant's Resturant the Marienbad. Dont committe to marriage with Swizz Beatz his not the man for you. you have more options ,so hang on to them. nothing goes together better.
After listening to Empire State of Mind. I Felt New York City would be new way I spread real light. I know this city can help me get closer to the dreams were chaising. So i was wondering if i could give you this invatation.
Yours Truelly.
Silvestro Michael Baldinelli
connect to email silbaldinelli@rogers.com. it cant hurt if you try.
Agreed! that's exactly what it is that's inside. Then as we grow older there's so many pathways but since we're a society that doesn't listen to our hearts as much as our minds, passions grow dim. What inspires along our way footholds us up. I feel lucky that I've been inspired and influenced as much to follow my path. I love playing professionally and teaching. With so many people not knowing how or where to go, I love that I am able to connect and help when I can.
Making a living is hard and when you gotta choose between art and rent, some sacrifices come in.
Anyways, your amazing, your live bands always Kill IT!
Aright Miss Keys?? congrats on the baby news! just saying your MJ - 'almost there' cover has made me happy forever lol. not seen ya live yet.. and ive had exams recently, so i couldnt see u this time... so come to the UK again soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PS Diary is still my fave album of all time! but the others come close take it eaassy, Vee x
I want to no who you or Alicia Keys
I love you like a sister and look up to you
so much give me a chanes to get to no you
thats all I want from you Alicia Keys be my
sister let me see you Alicia Keys you no I love
you with all my haert so you can have my
stainless steel cross it is yours you can have it
and you want to get it let me go to hollywood with
you and see the city I want to leve in and its new
york city haple me get there Alicia Keys so Im dreams
can come true like yours did Alicia Keys you become
a singer and I love you Alicia Keys haple me
go to new york city to have my dreams come
true I want you to come get me and fly me to
New York City and why I dont have money
to get there so take me there Alicia Keys
Until i saw you on stage the first time in Paris May 31 i don't understand why your voice touch me as i listen your music every day and unfortunately i have not had the opportunity to see you before. Now I understand, you are unique, outstanding, with a total generosity, your wonderful voice transported me far away, you're just amazing !
Alicia God gave you a great talent and beauty and for that i thank him.
I know that soon you will khnow the joy of being a mom and i wish you and your fiance Kaseem all the happiness in the world for this beautiful baby to come. Enjoys time with your baby and your hubby this is the most important and come back on stage when you're ready, you know that your audience you will always be faithful.
let me see you Alicia Keys I love you like a sister
and your my best sister and a bother
could have never pick a batter one then
you Alicia Keys be my best sister
and my friend halpe me go to
New York City with you cuise my
dream is to go to HolyWood with you and
I look up to you so much that Im Crying
and acking you to take me to New York City
with you Alicia Keys that my dream is to
go with you Alicia Keys to New York City
I love you halpe my dream come true
Alicia Keys
I love you and your like a
sister to me Alicia Keys
come no dont let me down my
dream is to go to see you in
New York City and I look up
to you Alicia Keys a lot thats
way I want to be a super ster
like you I look up to you so halpe
me get to new york city and so I
could say hay and hug you I love
you Alicia Keys if not for me let me
see you cuise you care about your fans
I love you Alicia Keys like a sister
I love you and your like a
sister to me Alicia Keys
come no dont let me down my
dream is to go to see you in
New York City and I look up
to you Alicia Keys a lot thats
way I want to be a super ster
like you I look up to you so halpe
me get to new york city and so I
could say hay and hug you I love
you Alicia Keys if not for me let me
see you cuise you care about your fans
I love you Alicia Keys like a sister
I love you and your like a
sister to me Alicia Keys
come no dont let me down my
dream is to go to see you in
New York City and I look up
to you Alicia Keys a lot thats
way I want to be a super ster
like you I look up to you so halpe
me get to new york city and so I
could say hay and hug you I love
you Alicia Keys if not for me let me
see you cuise you care about your fans
and I love you Alicia Keys like a sister
you toll me lies to Alicia Keys and
I love you so mush
like you were my sister why
did you not say you were
haveing Sweat beats baby
and I wood not have got my
fellings hert wen I faned
out but you TOLL ME LIES
and your music is my only franed
and Michael Jackson's music has
been my only frand win I was a kid
and wen I was a teen usher and you
Alicia Keys were my frands your music
keep me fom being a lone cuise I have no
frands at all Alicia Keys but your muisc is my franed
I love you so mush Alicia Keys
Whatz up Alicia..
I didnt really start listening to you since I heard how much Soul you had in your songs,
You got awesome songs I can sing but I am always to Shy to do it that is why to be honest if i met you I would not say a word.
Congratz on you and Swizz on your baby....
If you ever come to Australia I want you to come and teach me how to get over Stage Fright lol..
Well God Bless Alicia.
Moments in time....that's my take on it. Moments in time can make dreams a reality. There’s something inherent within us that wants us to believe “IAAS”—strong, loved, powerful, giving, valued, and talented (whatever that talent may be). Those are the whispers we hear in our head and too often allow to be drowned out by the noise of doubt and uncertainty from within or from others (whether “friend”, family or foe). What gives some the “strength to endure the doubts” and silence the noise? A collection of moments in time when we experience moments of greatness, when we’re with the right people at the right time, when a true friend lifts us up when we’re down, without judgment and sometimes without even words—a touch, a smile or just a listening ear. The moments are there—if we allow ourselves to see and feel them. Moments infused with pulsating and rhythmic sounds from our favorite artist (thank you Alicia), seasoned with just the right words that inspire the insatiable “YOU” to ignore “normal” and do what it takes, endure the unthinkable, and challenge the odds. Moments in time that empower and inspire—collect them and give them to those you love and feel the surreal bliss that comes with doing what you love and being amazing at being the true YOU.
Alicia, girl...I gotta say u's wonderful. I first saw you in concert in 2008 in Hamburg and let me say...ain't never thought that I could cry in a crowd at some concert...u know like..when u see on TV all the people waiting for some rock star and crying there like fools...I was always thinking...s***, what the hell?!?!? But then, that night I knew what that was like. It ain't that I'm obsessed or something LOL, but it's just....that power some people have and you definitely have some power, something amazing that lifts people higher. Wish you all the best in the world and know that there are people who appreciate the music that you do. Rock on, miss girl .
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We all have that dream of making it to where we want to be in life and watching Alicia as she achieved her various dreams makes me even more driven. I love that she is humbled by her whole career and I hope to do the same as I venture into life on my own. We are relatable as people and I genuinely respect that. Way to go Alicia!
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I really get this - and is really relevant to me right now. I think I went to your site in search of assurance and I've found it especially in these last few sentences. Someone once told me that I was the page of wands sending out various shoots everywhere I go, never knowing where they will end up or how they will sprout (if at all) so good one - you were right on the money with this shoot for me thanks. Watched some youtube clips of some of your newer songs. i like the part in 'like you'll never see me again' when you go 'you're beside me' i like the way it sounds and how it makes me feel.
thats all for now.
thanks
dan monteath
auckland, nz
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You are so inspiring, One of my biggest row-models in music. Respect to you!! God bless x
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Alicia, CONGRATS on baby Egypt Daoud Dean !!!. I can think of no more deserving human being. You are an angel on this Earth. Kids love you, Adults love you and you have a generous spirit. Tom, NY
UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY BLACK HISTORY MONTH LESSONS
MRS. KEYS,
I AM A STUDENT ATTENDING THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY AND AM A PART OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS CLUB. WE(THE MAJORITY OF THE SCHOOL), ARE FANS OF YOU, YOUR MUSIC, INFLUENCE, AND HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS AROUND THE WORLD. YOU EMBODY THE TYPE OF PERSON THAT THE NAVAL ACADEMY WANTS TO GRADUATE. STRONG, INDEPENDENT, CONFIDENT, AND DISCIPLINED LEADERS THAT SERVE OUR NATION. YOU SERVE THROUGH YOU MUSIC AND EFFORTS WHILE WE LEARN TO SERVE IN OTHER WAYS. BLACK HISTORY MONTH IS COMING VERY SOON AND THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS IS BEGGINING TO PLAN EVENTS FOR THE UPCOMING MONTHS. WE ARE SPONSORING A SERIES PERFORMANCE WHICH WILL BE THE HISTORY OF MUSIC FROM AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS AND A POETRY LUNCHEON ALONG WITH OTHER EVENTS DURING FEBRUARY. IF THERE IS ANY POSSIBLE WAY THAT YOU COULD CONTRIBUTE TO IDEAS OR HAVE THE TIME IN YOUR BUSY DAY TO SPEAK TO US FOR A MINUTE IT WOULD BE BEAUTIFUL AND NO ONE WILL EVER FORGET IT.
ON BEHALF OF THE BRIGADE OF MIDSHIPMAN OF THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY,
PEACE AND LOVE
BRANDON CARTER
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ALICIA, JUST WANTED TO SEND YOU AND YOUR HUSBAND ,CONGRATULATIONS ON THE BIRTH OF YOUR NEW SON. MAY HE BRING YOU MANY NEW INSPIRATIONS AND FILL YOUR HEART WITH JOY,SONG ,AND MOST OF ALL LOVE. MOST SINCERLY REBECCA MADORE,AKA,BECCABOOP
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i love you !!!
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Hi Alicia =)
What you wrote right here and in many of your other blogs, is exactly why I love the music you've been able to share with the world and the person that you are. You the realest. <3
Your fan Joyce
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Wow! I just became a part of your fan club, and Im just reading what you've typed about new talent frolicking among our midst. I would very much like to comment that indeed, when looking around you and realizing what others had to do in order to be apart of the American Dream, it amazes myself as well. Here they all come...the young, the old, the meek, the unfortunate,...all coming to pursue something that only few can be able to withhold. They realize the gifts the Lord has blessed them with, and to be honest, I totally give them credit for having the guts to go up there and the chance to shine. To be honest, I was not blessed with enough courage to step up infront of many crowds and sing, but I continue to work on it. I guess it all depends on whether or not you have the drive...the ambition...the taste of wanted bliss.lol The dream is near and upon each and every other person who's striving to make it. All we have to do is run towards it, and let God handle the rest.
I'm really glad I was able to read your blog...even though, it's been there for months!
*** off topic and all, but I remember being 11 years old,...I was in the 6th grade. Music was just becoming to be important to me. I was a little RnB child, so I was only singing songs my mother and father had me listen to back in the good ole 90s. Singers such as Brandy, Monica, SWV, En Vogue,...and yes, my all time favorite, Tevin Campbell! During the year of 2001, I didn't come close to finding an artist that really could reach into the depths of real music for me. I found myself searching for artists that could feel what I was feeling...make music into pure and exotic masterpieces. That was when I was listening to the radio one day and my father turned on the radio, with the DJ introducing your music to the world for the first time. I listened...and remember being mesmorized. I had to hear more, and low and behold, my father bought your first album as soon as it came out. I remember playing your music everywhere I went...well, almost everywhere! I I related your music to my life...and I felt like you were living my life, almost. You knew...you just knew exactly what I was going through, even though I was so young. I felt your emotion, your realness, your every vocal put into a single note...it captured me. Now, I'm 20 years old, inspiring to be an author for my very first poem book and hopefully a song writer...and maybe a vocalist, if the Lord permits. Still in school and reaching my goals, but I make it through the day with just popping my earphones on, listening to EVERY album you've ever released. I would like to thank you SO much for inspiring me...capturing me with not just your unique music, but your lyrical abilities. It's music that needs to be heard more often, and I for one, can never get tired of the work you put out. Your music is greatly appreciated, and I thank you thank you...THANK YOU...for bringing this shy little girl out of her box and showing her how to become a woman with something good to give to the world. I love you, Alicia Keys! God Bless
*Free Spirited*
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Alicia, Thank you so much for sharing your talent with us. In the short 24 years that I've been living I've been through so many things and so many of your songs really reach my soul. I have a 3 year old son who was born with a condition called Apert Syndrome (a craniofacial disorder) and he has to have surgeries to expand his skull, among other types of surgeries, often. He has already had 8 surgeries and has many more to come. I always play your music during his recovery because it is a nice, familiar sound that we love. The past few surgeries, they have been tying him to the bed and they have to stitch his eyes closed because his head swells so much... and he tries to pull and tug the wires... I believe that the music is what calms him when he is not allowed to see or move, and there is no explaining to him the reasons 'why'. I can't thank you enough for that! Thank you so much Alicia--don't ever go away. I hope that as he gets older and has to start dealing with body image or kids teasing him, you and your music will still provide a safe escape for my baby! Ethan and I love you so much!
- Amy
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hi alicia, am a italian boy.
my dream is coming to New York, the "concrete jungle"
to know the place where my passion for five years, break dancing.
sorry for my bad speak English. I want to come to dance in New York.
I hope you read this comment. your songs are beautiful. i love you.
please let me dance for you. Italy in my talent is lost
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How I came to buy your album... Friday 12-18-09
WOW. Being pulled over by the Police is a different experience as a man then as a woman. I went to East Providence today to a store that sells mobile phone and wireless accessories. I was going to sell my old cell phones to the man behind the counter. I was told by someone that there is a mobile store that buys back old phones. This didn't seem strange because I know that 98% of cell phone can be recycled for parts. I usually go through Shelter Alliance; there a non profit organization that if you are working for a non profit can send your phones through the mail and they send you a check for them in the mail. They then recycle the parts. When I changed cell phone vendors for the non profit that I work for the new sale account took our old phones and sold them for us on EBAY and gave us the money for them which was better then Shelter Alliances pay for old phones. The problem with Shelter Alliance is that they pay very little for the phones and you wait months. So when I heard there was a mobile phone shop that will purchase the phones I thought great. I had gone down there the other day and sold him some of the old phones and there was no problem. Although I did find it strange that he didn't even ask me to verify that indeed they weren't stolen, were in working condition. He didn't even asked me my name, just handed me cash and I left and went back to the office. I have had no reason up until now to think that reselling old cell phones is against the law. So when I went into the mobile shop that I had been in the day before with my 3 cell phones in my hands I wasn't expecting what I witnessed next. After I walked in an East Providence police officer walked in a asked to speak to the owner. It's funny because the officer looked at my face and I looked him in the eye and knotted with a smile as if to say hello before he had gone into the other room to speak with the owner. Then he left, but before he did I was listening because I had a really weird feeling in my gut. But I couldn't figure anything. So I was listening a little to their conversation and I heard the officer ask the owner for proof that he had the right to sell. And then the owner came out of the back room and took his retails sales license off the wall and went back into the room. And then that is all I could make out before the officer came out and left. The owner then said to the girl behind the counter that he was leaving. And the girl then said that I was was there to speak to him. He recognized me from the day before and smiled. I said are you buying cell phones? I have three. He said that he couldn't until he got a different license and mention briefly what had happened with the officer. Apparently so kid said he sold him a cell phone that didn't work or something to that matter. But he said very en-surely that I should come back in a week or so because he was interested in buying them from me. I said okay and left. As I was on my way out, he was walking out to his car that was parked next to mine and he smiled and said you know how it is and got into his nice BMW gray very new and shinny car and drove off. I shrugged my shoulders smiled and got into my car. I was driving about a two blocks down the street and I noticed that a East Providence police officer was behind me. I slowed from a mere 30 mph to 25 just to be on the safe side not knowing the true speed limit of the area. I then noticed the lights came on the police car and so I pulled over shocked that I was being told to pull over. The police officer approached me and I recognized him as the same police officer that was in the mobile store from a few minutes ago. He came to my window and said lic, registration and proof of insurance and I said hello officer is something wrong. He then firmly repeated to me, lic, registration and proof of insurance. At which time I handed all that information that I had already had in my hand when he approached me to him. I said hello and knotted that your the officer who was just in the store. And I plainly told him that I was going to sell him my old cell phones. And he asked how I knew he buys cell phones back And I said someone had told me. He pressed me for who and I just said I can't remember and asked if there was something wrong. And then he said you smell like weed. Have you been smoking pot? And then as I said no he said step out of the car and put your hands on the back of your car and stay there. And I started to laugh but quickly stopped and said to him that I don't smoke pot. And he said you sound and smell like you have been smoking. And I realized because my voice is changing due to the testosterone I'm on that my voice sounds like I've smoked a few packs of cigarettes. And as he stuck his hand in my right pocket and padded me down he said then why do you smell like weed. I said maybe because sometimes I where poturili oil that some people say smells like weed or earth or dirt. And then I said I'm working. And he said what does that have to due with the price in China. And proceeded to then go into my front seat and search my car. I was watching him closely. And my first instinct was to go up to him and tell him to stop. And it's a good thing I fought my instincts because he had his back to me and as soon as I thought to, I saw his guy in his holster and thought he is going to think I'm trying to cause trouble and he may pull his gun, or he may hit me. I was thinking f*** he could plant something on me and take me for s***s and giggles. I thought this is what's it's like to be an man in America. I thought I'm glad I'm not a black man today. I thought of my best friend whom is a black man. I thought I wonder what the officer would think if he knew that when he forcefully put his hands in my pockets that I do still indeed have woman parts. I thought how different it is to be pulled over by a police officer as a man then when I was seen as a woman, or thought of as a lesbian. I thought what would he do to me if he knew I was transgender male. I thought regardless of gender, creed, race, sexual orientation, even if my nose was blue, .... this is bulls*** this is unjust. I thought wow police officers have to deal with a lot of s***ty people however I am not one of them and there is no excuse. As he handed me back my Identification, my Proof of Insurance, and my registration to my G20 Infinity I said Thank you and drove away.
I came back into the city through way of the Henderson bridge; an old fixture I rarely use and it brought me by the Wayland Square area and by a Starbuck. I thought f*** it, I'm stopping. I had just had a coffee two hours ago, I needed to stop . ..I just needed to sit still. I was frazzled by what had just happened to me. So I went into to Starbucks, waited for a few minutes in line until I was greeted with, "Can I help you sir?" I ordered a tall coffee, and stood there looking downward at the tip of the counter. My eyes were glazed, my mind exhausted. ...I really needed desperately to be reminded that there was beauty in the world. And as I shook my head side to side in a downward position my eyes came upon, Alicia Keys, her new CD; "The Element of Freedom" ... I put my hands on it like the memory of the first time I'd ever touch the bare skin of a breast on a woman. I smiled wildly, holding back with brief shy expression on my face and said "I'll take this too". I gladly paid the USD $12.95 asking to the cafe counter Briasta or what ever their said position is according to Starbuck and blurted out that I had just been stopped by the police, and had to stand with my hands on the trunk of my car for nothing, I randomly chuckled in utter stutter and mention that I couldn't imagine if I'd been a foreigner that although my experience with the police was miserable and total unjust that I was probably one of the "lucky ones" because of the color of my skin and said perceived persona of a "white male". And took both coffee and CD to the counter to fix my "tall". When I got in my car there was chaos in the parking lot, someone trying to pull in. I was starting to pull out. And someone was behind the person who was trying to pull in. And yet still another someone cleverly parked before the dumpster awaiting my parking spot. And I chuckled to myself again and proceeded to command the chaos. As I drove off, Alicia Keys spoke to me. .... "And the day came when the risk it took to remain tightly closed and bud, was more painful then the risk it took to bloom, this is the element of freedom." She spoke those words and the words melded to my insides, my gut slightly sideways like a half smile I'd get from a woman I'd just met but somehow knew was gonna love me so good I had better pay attention NOW. Things were brought back to natural order of all things good and inherently right in this world for me in that moment. I am so grateful that God has created artists and poets. I am so grateful for their existence. They truly bring magic to me. Today they save me from cowardly giving up from begrudging the whole world for my burden, my pain, my cross to bear ... "Love, ... it will come find you, just to remind you, ... of who you are." -Alicia Keys. "No one can get in the way of what I'm feeling".... Alicia Keys thank you. -Mac
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I never get tired of your voice
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Hi Alicia,
who knows if you really read all these comments, maybe in rainy days..or maybe you will do it now that you'll be mom..
2morrow I'll have an ability test at the university so I'm nervous, and...since YOU bring me to a certain (what can I say it) 'balance' I'm watching the episodes of The Story of Alicia Keys on youtube and I want to say only 3 words : I FEEL YOU.
I feel your music, your soul and as you said 'let the music go, let the people fell the music'.
Thank God the world knows you
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Hi Alicia:
One of your biggest recording artist fans is Sean Paul. He has been telling interviewers, for nearly a year, that his dream collaboration would be to do a duet with you. He says he really appreciates the passion that comes through in your songs and he would love to collaborate with you. Grant a wish, why don't ya! Holla at Sean Paul, the reggae artist, and do a collab with him.
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hi my name is sheranna gittens i'm from trinidad and tobago i think thats great you actually get to steal a glimpse to watch those shows but you shouldnt take life for granted enjoy it to the fullest with the ones you love and care about even if you dont know some one because we are all different and special in our very own way 2 someone else we should appreciate and love everyone i've experience alot of young people in my life just by a glimpse of the eye and there lives were taken away and i just sit and wonder if i have been the best i could 2 everyone i know a good mom? yes i'm a mother of a handsome young boy lorenzo gittens is his name he will be 1 year old the 3rd september 2010 he is the greatest joy in my life you would see how your whole life would change when your baby is born well just keep safe and have a safe delivery may god bless you and guide your family keep you away from harm love always sheranna
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I love the way you write. Wether it's to the fans or in a song it's always so deep. I've been listining to you since i was 3 and now I'm 13. You're the one who inspired me to play piano and Lately I've learning a lot your songs. I will always be your number 1 fan and will always love you.
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Alicia,I think that u have an amazing attitude,I have alway's liked u,ALTHOUGH,The last Couple of month's I have actually been addicted to your music I love all of your album's ,ALTHOUGH,My favourite's are 'As I am' and 'Element of Freedom,I remember when u performed on Britain's got talent' and me and my sister @shanicey2000 were dancing to your newest single 'Try sleeping' with a broken heart' We replayed the song over and over!!!!!
I love u so much NOW
Everybody think's of me as'The 1 who love's Alicia'
I also love the fact that we have the same name and the same hair kinda!!!!!
Please Can u follow me on twitter!?
@Elishaa_xo
xxxxxxxxx
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Alicia, I'm glad you kept pushing and never gave up. I can't imagine NOT enjoying your music. You have came a long way and just keep getting better. The passion you show in your music is like no one else. I hope you continue to have that drive and desire for a long, long time. Your perseverance shows you are an extremely strong person. I wish you the best, and I know you're only going to continue to be even better. LOL Peace
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that was beautiful... and sweet...
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That was beautifully said.
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Alicia I completely agree. I too share a great passion for music it's what helps me get through every single day. But I also have a great passion for my family and I hope you could help me out. My sister Stephanie adores you. You are her inspiration and she has all your CD's. She believes as do I that you are the only one who is truthful these days in their music and can really connect with their fans. So if you get the chance in the next week or sooner could you please call her for her Birthday? Even if she doesn't pick up I'm sure you leaving a message giving her some wisdom or just telling her she's beautiful will make her day. She is turning 21 on the 30th of July and could really use some wisdom or kind words from others. Her number is 289 888 3074. I hope you are doing great and if you need some ideas for songs I would love to help you. I write songs all the time. And I wouldn't care to get reconition, just hearing one of my songs knowing myself I created it and tons of people can relate to it and that I would be helping an artist out would be good enough for me
Sinscerly Alysha Snow
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Alicia Keys, your words are gorgeous. Made from your mind to pick anyone up from their feet.
To continue from where they are with STRONG motivation.
From the work you do AND the empathy expressed in this blog, it is simply shown that your heart is warm and [most importantly] motivated. Not only motivated to do good, but motivated to be HEARD.
One can recognize that by sitting down on a couch or beging for a work day to be finished [everyday] will NOT get you anywhere in this world.
Through your natural power, you refused to make laziness conquer your life.
To wrap it up, I can only hope that you continue to produce good deeds to this corrupt world and continue to show the world that there ARE still good people out there.
I hope to one day marry a girl with your similar characteristics.
Big ups to the Family and the soon to be family!
God blesss
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Haha, Its funny some of us write so much hoping that Alicia Keys is somewhere out there and would actually read this with her own eyes and not her assistant or helper. I must say it's good being here because Alicia is my favorite singer since she caught my atention when her new single broke out I keep on falling, I was doing something and i stopped, looked at the tv screen and my eyes were glued. I watched and listened to her every move, and I though she was the most beautiful thing and most talented put together. since that day until today I keep on falling and still follows her every move. But why?? am i a stalker?? Am I crazy? No im not. Its because I see in Alicia Keys my dreams, who I would like to be. Unfortunately, like many other unfortunately's this didn not happen because of choices. Its not easy to stand up and say I want to be a singer or a musician in a world that forces you in the opposite direction. At the moment I am painting, modeling and studying Politics in a University in China, but if I had to do it all over I would have swapped my classes to sit on a piano every day of my life and write my own songs and still get time to paint. And I would have wanted to do nothing else but these three things.
Without futher blabbing, I wish Alicia Keys all the best! millions are still trying to be where you are and because of this you are truly blessed. You have the world looking at you and I know you are beautiful inside out, so with this power you can change things and you are doing just that. Love you Millions!
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I loved reading this blog, thank you so much for posting it. It's great to know that after all these years, the energy and drive that it takes someone who is dedicated to their art is still recognised by someone like yourself.
I feel and felt the connection of your words so strongly as I know an artist in London called Kelly Erez who has such a drive and commitment to making music. She's really getting out there right now and picking up some good word of mouth online.
She's an R&B Soul artist that has a warm deep soulful voice that moves you, the kind of voice you do not hear very often but should should be heard everywhere. I know someone who knows her and I personally am looking forward to seeing here playing in London in September.
She is committed to following her dream, you can check her out at http://www.kellyerez.com
Thank you for listening.
Brooklyn.
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I thought of so many ways how to began writing this comment and I went from situation to situation in my mind and I came to the thought to just be real and be me...and than I read "between reality and the dream." and you've probably heard this before Alicia...every word that you explained then and there is exactly how I feel in my life today. I've been singing since I was 3, writing lyrics since I was 7and haven't stopped ever since. It was everything I loved to do and everything I was living for...I wasn't going to stop until my lyrics and rythm were heard...and than along my life I got side tracked and made some poor decisions. I fell in love and had two sons at a young age. Don't get me wrong I never stopped writing and I was always singing from time to time...but it felt like something was taken and left an empty hole in my heart. I was trampled by life and I felt like I wanted to beathe and be me again, but somethings just kept bringing me down. I know I can be somebody and I have great lyrics that I want to expose to artist so I can write for them...I know I have original talent and can make a difference...I still haven't given up...but I need your help...by any chance if any time in the future you get a chance to read this please let me know what I can do to make my dream become reality...I don't want time to run out...my lyrics are clean and creative...I keep my faith in God but I just need a chance to shine...maybe by chance you'll give me that oppotunity...
respectfully,
Iriana Monique
Congratulations on your new baby, they change your life in so many ways...but will always have your heart before anyone.
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Hey Ms. Keys!!
Although there is little chance of you reading this, due to your undoubtedly busy lifestyle, but I just thought I'd send you some thoughts, contained in a warm, fond message sent from my brain to yours. It is so great that people can connect using these small technological machines, even though were over 4,000 miles away from each other!! I am currently residing in my home, in the unfortunately not-so-sunny realm of Liverpool, England.
ANYWAY, my name is Chris Carr, and ever since as far back in my life as I can remember, I have had an unquenchable thirst for every aspect of creative arts, but music in particular. I remember being young, and coming home everyday from school and, instead of doing homework, writing short stories or drawing or writing silly songs, banging on boxes and having fun making invisible sound from visible objects.......just playing around, as kids do. Somehow, I still did ok in school, haha, I quite enjoyed it!!! But homework, when all you want to do is paint and get messy as a kid, is the last thing in your mind!!
As I grew older, I did all I could to hang on to the one constant in my life - art. Music became my biggest passion, while my love for painting and writing still remained somewhat in the background. I learned from my friends, from musicians that I admired, from things that I would see or sounds that I would hear while walking anywhere. But, yanno what?!?!?! It became harder and harder and harder everyday to maintain strong and keep my intentions focussed on what it is that I love most - music. I think that these difficulties in maintaining my focus on music mostly came from my family, and generally the surrounding society in which we all live. Nobody seems to believe that the creative arts are worth pirsuing, in the area were I live. It is a common thing in the town of Widnes to just move into an easy job when you come of age and earn money to keep you afloat and under a roof. I got treated with pure indifference by my family and friends as I was growing up. Instead of supporting me and my ambitions, they would have preferred me to just get a job and be financially stable enough to look after myself. It might have been done out of love that they were doing this, in an effort to assure themselves that I would have the ability to look after myself. But as your song says, "love is blind", and those that were closest to me ended up alienating me, making me feel bad that I was so hellbent on establishing myself as a musician and having a creative career. As you said, you understand that NEED, that DRIVE to get were you are going, while enjoying the ride along the way.
To cut an already too long story a wee bit shorter, as you know, times change and people change. I grew older (not too old, I'm only 21!) and kept my eyes focussed on what it is that I love most, and what it is that invokes happiness in me on every level. I carried on painting and writing, and played my guitar and wrote songs more than ever. And EVENTUALLY, I have now ended up integrated into the arts community around the North West of England, playing as a session musician and writing songs with bands, writing my own songs, also being in a band with my best friends (we supported Okgo!!), and just generally lifting my dream out of head and turning it into reality. Slowly but surely, my persistance is paying off!!
I do apologise for this rant Alicia, it could have been cut shorter, but I just wanted to tell you about my experiences, and how I agree with you about how we all have an inner voice, an inner calling, that we can focus on and follow. It is a beautiful thing!! Those talent shows do not make the greatest TV, but I do agree that you can empathise with every person who tells their story and how they had to face challenges in order to pirsue their dream!!! I like the idea that through art and our mutual ventures in creative exploits, we create a global (universal?!) community of like minded people. Art - the great communicator. It's breath taking
Finally, there have been many artists over my life so far who have inspired me to keep my dream alive, at whatever cost. Of course, you are one of them!!! You have inspired me so much.....you are an amazing musician and a great, posotive musical spirit.
So, I have digressed WAY too much, and I apologise for writing this much, when all I really do want to say, for all your inspiration and beautiful music and hard work and persistence and love and light, is this........................... - - -
THANK YOU.
Love & Light
Chris Carr
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Alicia,
Hey, first of all, i am not sure if u gonna read it or not..But that's ok..
I am from Brazil, and some days ago, i saw you on the tv in africas open..
And, always when i see one of your videoclips, or pictures, or only your face, i just stay freeze.
I know it sounds crazy, but i really feel good looking to you, what about your music? Oh, i listen it every day, for sure, when i hear ur voice, i feel good, and you know what brings me down?
I know you are a person,like everybody, but i feel like so good looking to you, i feel in love, can you belive that? I know i can't. But it's true.
I dont know how to express my words in english, but u know when you see somenthing, that makes you better inside of you? Did you never looked to your love, and thought like, uau how i feel good inside of me looking to this person, i dont know how to explain but, it makes me good.
And its crazy but in my mind i see me with you, and always come to my mind, hey, wake up she will never even know ho is you.
I know that everything sounds crazy and you should hear that like 5 times in the day, but to ME is very important. Very important.
I see you, the thinks you do, the way you are, the way you smile, and i feel perfect, i feel like how i gonna do to see her one day? haha
I know, IF you read that, maybe u will be laughing on me now..but its real, i see that you're the kind of person ho i want to my life, a peace life with a very nice person.
Your smile, i cant explain,make me feel inside of me in love. It's like a platonic love without return.
And i know it's not your fault, you are a busy woman, with a beautifull life ahead.
I just came here (that i never thought i would come here) to say to you that you're a perfect woman, and i wish so much you reading this, i want so much an answer, i know it's impossible, but we have to try right?
Maybe i see you in real life? hahah sounds fun, but my heart stay with you all the days to stay good.
Well, that's it. crazy? Idiot? I don't know, but like you do, i did too..I expressed my feelings in letters...
Anyway, if some day of your life (or never) you want to answer, danilocortucci@hotmail.com is my email.
Alicia, I really like you, u make me feel good without talk to you.
Have a good life.
Hugs to you, wish you the best, and if you want, answer me.
Best Regards
Bye
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Well, despite my musical reality it's very different, with other variants, i think i can understand it. I think it's good to remember the "old energy" full of expectations, but I think too, that this is something you need to develop and not only a memory. And when I say developing, I mean that it's not positive to remain with the same ideas, with the same expectations. Ok, its good not to forget it, sometimes all becomes too professional, but I think that in the end, I'm not totally proud of this "young man" of the past. I don't have anymore this same voice, despite I can use some "parameters" of the past, that are easily lost, and it's good to remember it.
Maybe I could summarize it like that: the main point is that there is like you said a NEED (i would prefer the word HUNGER), and this is something not easy to maintain. But this HUNGER should desire every time different (and maybe) bigger expectations.
Anyway, you say that people we are not so different. I disagree, at the end you only connected with one of them, and I think that the feeling was just like "I connect with THIS person, how near I AM with her". I think it was special precisely because of that.
Saludos!
Thoughts
So this is my first day on your site.. and I've read somethings that I think those things are so special. Some words we people can't speak out loud and you just do, so thank you.
'' It's always a powerful realization that in every way, we as people are never so different from each other. ''
I think that you're absolutly right, because we people are not different mabye on the outside but on the inside
we are the same, those emotions I have someone else has it too! We all cried, we all smiled but we people think that if you're famous you're a different person, but the evidence is right here: Alicia Keys. I will never believe that famous people are different, they feel the same as we do and they can connect so simple with
somebody. Thankyou Alicia, and everybody @ this site has that same link: we all adore music.
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TALENTED KAVEMAN REMIX TO UNTHINKABLE CHECK IT OUT!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fDIFysUK5U
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Hi Alicia, I want to be your first white girl back round singer. I wanted to be the first girl to play drums but it didn't happen. Now a new goal-I adore your voice-hope you'll adore mine.)
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mizz keys
u inspire me in soo many ways as you do so many other people! im a young mother who is 18 , and i have two beautiful children . music is my therapy .... music is where i find strength ....and i wonder if ill ever come across a song that sings about a young mothers struggle , love, accomplishments , and determination. there are millions of young mothers like me in the world... and most media or what have you, dissregard us. there will always be negative in being a young single mother, but the thing is ... im waiting for someone to find the beauty in it. i come to you , to ask if you would ever listen to my story , and see the power it holds. my children are my everything ... and im glad to say , ive survived being a young single mother and am graduating this year. i always hear song about partying, hustling,love, romance, ......... but i would love to hear a beautiful women sing about a young mothers struggle as apose to a young mans hustle.... not that u sing about a mans hustle or game .... but a women such as yourself holds much power and love... and only a women like u could strongly represent love in such a way ! thank u for listening miss keys ... u are my superwomen 
<3 i can only hope i get a response , but i also understand if i dont . ur a busy women! my email address is emerald_janell@hotmail.com ........ thank u alicia <3 much love , janell jackson
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Im writting to let you know how much I enjoy the albums you make. I have all four of them.The first one I got was Songs in A minor. Then I bought The Element of Freedom, after seeing your video's. Sleeping with a broken Heart. That was a song I needed to hear, because you know were humans trying to get connected to our solemates. Our love can be so strong we could get involved with one another. And people all around the world see that its time to say "yes" to feeling one love. It's important for us to work toward it. The picture of my destiny won't knock at my front door, I SHOULD GO GET!!!!
I used to watch your videos in high school, and always thought you had a sweet style, with your breads rockin the piano. Iv read the blog on your site and was interested about your toast to the year 2010 as the year should fill our cups. The cup we hold won't fill itself. We must do it. Iv read your twitters about your trip to Africa during this summers World soccer Cup. Supporting Keep a Child Alive. I see your ways of spreading the light. I try to spred the light by creating art. I'll be showing some pieces on my site. www.Baldinelli.com. Iv had meny shows in my home-town London,Ontario,Canada. and a couple at my Ant's Resturant the Marienbad. Dont committe to marriage with Swizz Beatz his not the man for you. you have more options ,so hang on to them. nothing goes together better.
After listening to Empire State of Mind. I Felt New York City would be new way I spread real light. I know this city can help me get closer to the dreams were chaising. So i was wondering if i could give you this invatation.
Yours Truelly.
Silvestro Michael Baldinelli
connect to email silbaldinelli@rogers.com. it cant hurt if you try.
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Agreed! that's exactly what it is that's inside. Then as we grow older there's so many pathways but since we're a society that doesn't listen to our hearts as much as our minds, passions grow dim. What inspires along our way footholds us up. I feel lucky that I've been inspired and influenced as much to follow my path. I love playing professionally and teaching. With so many people not knowing how or where to go, I love that I am able to connect and help when I can.
Making a living is hard and when you gotta choose between art and rent, some sacrifices come in.
Anyways, your amazing, your live bands always Kill IT!
olivia
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Aright Miss Keys?? congrats on the baby news! just saying your MJ - 'almost there' cover has made me happy forever lol. not seen ya live yet.. and ive had exams recently, so i couldnt see u this time... so come to the UK again soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PS Diary is still my fave album of all time! but the others come close
take it eaassy, Vee x
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I want to no who you or Alicia Keys
I love you like a sister and look up to you
so much give me a chanes to get to no you
thats all I want from you Alicia Keys be my
sister let me see you Alicia Keys you no I love
you with all my haert so you can have my
stainless steel cross it is yours you can have it
and you want to get it let me go to hollywood with
you and see the city I want to leve in and its new
york city haple me get there Alicia Keys so Im dreams
can come true like yours did Alicia Keys you become
a singer and I love you Alicia Keys haple me
go to new york city to have my dreams come
true I want you to come get me and fly me to
New York City and why I dont have money
to get there so take me there Alicia Keys
to Alicia Keys
from Scott Houston
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Alicia,
Until i saw you on stage the first time in Paris May 31 i don't understand why your voice touch me as i listen your music every day and unfortunately i have not had the opportunity to see you before. Now I understand, you are unique, outstanding, with a total generosity, your wonderful voice transported me far away, you're just amazing !
Alicia God gave you a great talent and beauty and for that i thank him.
I know that soon you will khnow the joy of being a mom and i wish you and your fiance Kaseem all the happiness in the world for this beautiful baby to come. Enjoys time with your baby and your hubby this is the most important and come back on stage when you're ready, you know that your audience you will always be faithful.
May God protect you and your family Alicia
Love u
Nat (Paris)
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let me see you Alicia Keys I love you like a sister
and your my best sister and a bother
could have never pick a batter one then
you Alicia Keys be my best sister
and my friend halpe me go to
New York City with you cuise my
dream is to go to HolyWood with you and
I look up to you so much that Im Crying
and acking you to take me to New York City
with you Alicia Keys that my dream is to
go with you Alicia Keys to New York City
I love you halpe my dream come true
Alicia Keys
to Alicia Keys
from Scott Houston
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I love you and your like a
sister to me Alicia Keys
come no dont let me down my
dream is to go to see you in
New York City and I look up
to you Alicia Keys a lot thats
way I want to be a super ster
like you I look up to you so halpe
me get to new york city and so I
could say hay and hug you I love
you Alicia Keys if not for me let me
see you cuise you care about your fans
I love you Alicia Keys like a sister
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I love you and your like a
sister to me Alicia Keys
come no dont let me down my
dream is to go to see you in
New York City and I look up
to you Alicia Keys a lot thats
way I want to be a super ster
like you I look up to you so halpe
me get to new york city and so I
could say hay and hug you I love
you Alicia Keys if not for me let me
see you cuise you care about your fans
I love you Alicia Keys like a sister
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I love you and your like a
sister to me Alicia Keys
come no dont let me down my
dream is to go to see you in
New York City and I look up
to you Alicia Keys a lot thats
way I want to be a super ster
like you I look up to you so halpe
me get to new york city and so I
could say hay and hug you I love
you Alicia Keys if not for me let me
see you cuise you care about your fans
and I love you Alicia Keys like a sister
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you toll me lies to Alicia Keys and
I love you so mush
like you were my sister why
did you not say you were
haveing Sweat beats baby
and I wood not have got my
fellings hert wen I faned
out but you TOLL ME LIES
and your music is my only franed
and Michael Jackson's music has
been my only frand win I was a kid
and wen I was a teen usher and you
Alicia Keys were my frands your music
keep me fom being a lone cuise I have no
frands at all Alicia Keys but your muisc is my franed
I love you so mush Alicia Keys
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Whatz up Alicia..
I didnt really start listening to you since I heard how much Soul you had in your songs,
You got awesome songs I can sing but I am always to Shy to do it that is why to be honest if i met you I would not say a word.
Congratz on you and Swizz on your baby....
If you ever come to Australia I want you to come and teach me how to get over Stage Fright lol..
Well God Bless Alicia.
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my dream is to go to new york city with the woman I look up to and its you Alicia keys and I love you like a big sister Alicia Keys
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Moments in time....that's my take on it. Moments in time can make dreams a reality. There’s something inherent within us that wants us to believe “IAAS”—strong, loved, powerful, giving, valued, and talented (whatever that talent may be). Those are the whispers we hear in our head and too often allow to be drowned out by the noise of doubt and uncertainty from within or from others (whether “friend”, family or foe). What gives some the “strength to endure the doubts” and silence the noise? A collection of moments in time when we experience moments of greatness, when we’re with the right people at the right time, when a true friend lifts us up when we’re down, without judgment and sometimes without even words—a touch, a smile or just a listening ear. The moments are there—if we allow ourselves to see and feel them. Moments infused with pulsating and rhythmic sounds from our favorite artist (thank you Alicia), seasoned with just the right words that inspire the insatiable “YOU” to ignore “normal” and do what it takes, endure the unthinkable, and challenge the odds. Moments in time that empower and inspire—collect them and give them to those you love and feel the surreal bliss that comes with doing what you love and being amazing at being the true YOU.
--Zengirl
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Alicia, girl...I gotta say u's wonderful. I first saw you in concert in 2008 in Hamburg and let me say...ain't never thought that I could cry in a crowd at some concert...u know like..when u see on TV all the people waiting for some rock star and crying there like fools...I was always thinking...s***, what the hell?!?!? But then, that night I knew what that was like. It ain't that I'm obsessed or something LOL, but it's just....that power some people have and you definitely have some power, something amazing that lifts people higher. Wish you all the best in the world and know that there are people who appreciate the music that you do. Rock on, miss girl
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Hi Alicia!! ,
Congrats to you & swizz on the nuptials & baby!!
Bless & love u always..Listening to your songs are truly an inspiration indeed!