I feel the exact same way. Alicia knows just how we feel in anything. I lost my grandfather last January who I hadn't seen since they were saved from hurricane Katrina. He was the only member on my father's side that truly cared about us, even knew I and my sister's name. (The step-family was fairly rude after all we had done and we couldn't see him often.) Around Christmas of 2009, my family and I watched The Princess and the Frog which had us all crying in the end. I especially related to the lightening bug Ray who had that charm about him, just like my grandpa from New Orleans where the movie is set. When he passed that month around MLK's birthday, all I could think about was Ray. His eyes lit up the same way as Ray's light. It really helped me through. Now every time I watch the movie, it makes me smile and think about him. I'm glad there are things like Alicia has music that remind her of loved ones. Perfect blog.
I miss my Nana too.
And she also lives on inside of me.
I share with others things she taught and showed me.
Life lessons.
Giving positive experiences to others.
Life is short, but its dynamic and filled with purpose.
Thank you Alicia for inspiring so many others
J
We do miss loved ones who were close to us and when they are gone there is an emptiness inside that resides. But music is the best way to feel them because melodies are replayed and in the the moments we lived, the experiences we had, they are all embedded in the very same music that we play or listen to each day. Its a compilation of sweet memories that we want to keep with us forever. Thats why we love music so much! We will not always have the time to cook, or do the things that everyone else is doing but you my dear have music which is everything.
Indeed -- this is so true. So much lives in the art that we, as humans create. I was so moved by your
I thought -- "Gee, She would be awesome as Lena Horne in a biopic!" I'm a writer -- I'd love to write the screenplay for that!
Also, you remind me of a teacher I had in early high school. I was the only white kid in an all black school, south Chicago, circa 1970s. I wrote a screenplay about it ... I only just thought today how much you remind me of my Black History teacher. What a rich time that was. Never forget it as long as I live.
That time of my life informs so much of my writing and who I am, today.
I truly believe that you are just that inspiring to move people like you move your family with your music and all that you do. I'm fifteen years old and some of the music that my peers listen to has no true meaning and i admire you for being able to have meaning in your music. To me that it what is important. You've been my favorite artist since I was in the first grade because your music just made me feel good. i might not have understood the meanings of your music then but Everyone knows good music when they hear it. And your piano playing moves me too. I've always played the piano but a lot of my friends say that it's lame or they don't see why i do it so much. But it's my safe place and your skills with the piano are crazy girl.
Anyway i enjoy hearing you perform and your talent is real and sincere and that inspires the hell outta me.
Thts so tru...many are tha tyms u js sit n cnt help 2 mis them....music heals n thts`y they liv in it,js a soft tune n t all kinda fls the same again...
Then you make the best music. Not many people write and sing what's real today. Keep it real. You're Nana wants you to. She doesn't want you to forget what's real. Keep her in your heart and you'll always spiritually feel her presence as long as God allows you to. Keep him in your heart as well. He will guide you and help you send good messages in your songs about life and love and to reach people, just as he did Marvin Gaye when he wrote What's Going On and more.
Miss Alecia i also live in your music. Family is the most important thing in this world and beyond. Our heavenly father is the most important thing. I just have to thank him for letting me see the rolls. Letting me get to know that scent . Letting me be accepted by her to touch her mind body and soul. There are just somethings youll never forget. I will never forget her i always wondered what happened to her. Why did she just dissapear like that? Maybe i was not good enough for her and she had bigger and better things to do. Thanks to GOD for just letting me have those moments. IamMike7 ( I always want to keep it 1 to 1)
Unthinkable is such a powerful song. Listening to it made me realize why
I love the man that I am with. It help me to get past all the hurt in my life and just love.
Love is the greatest. Love conquers all. In the mist of all of my storms love trumps it all.
aww that's so real and sweet butmy family memories live through just mosly everything I do like whenever I talk so give certain glare my mom always says that I look like my father but hweever I feel at lost form dad I just read remember eveything that we've done together like the long talks and the fatthat we both love strawberries it's just mostly memories one has as in memories never fade wen they are joyous ones......
BELLA MUJER, REINA DE MI VIDA....... As i sit here watching ur Videos, with a " koolaid smile" & SOOOO tuned in to ur Lyrics & o YES ur moves, i try to figure out a way to send u a message directly, where only u could view... However as i continue to read abt u & surf around ur page, i ended up here.. Now im left speechless in a way... Everything i wanted to say B 4 this, is all meaningless...
Bella Mujer con tanto Talento, U R the Rock of our lifes... I have sat here reading peoples stories, as some bring tears to my very eyes... God Bless U Bella & ALL the ones out their hurting over lost luvd ones or for any reason at all...
I am A Strong Puerto Rican female, but thru out life, i have realized & accepted that even the strong get weak, & that, it is ok to feel weak as we are all, ONLY Human, & tryna survive in this mad world, with some that are evil & some that are sweet.. Recently, i have entered into a serious R'ship with a woman 4 the 1st time, only to B left with my Heart in my Hand & a Lost Mind.. As i sit here trying to let Go & move on with my Life, i find plenty Comfort in ur Songs & in Everything U Write!! I can't really relate, to losing a luved one, U see all my life i have felt alone. With no Grandma or Grandpa to call my very own.. Family all ova from Jersey & New York to Florida & Puerto Rico, but thru out all my life they where & continue to be, so distant , so @ times i wonder from here, where do i Go.. No Family Memories that i can hold on to, like others can, from Family Holiday Parties to simple Bar B'Ques.. No Family Vacations, Family Reunions, Family Outings or even Family Weddings..
So, Bella Alicia, & the Rest of " Her Family / Fans " continue to cherish the simple memories from Grandma's cookin to ya sistas singin or screamin, from your cousins Leadership ways to Grandpa's laughter, From that Beautiful Mother n Child R'ship to that Amazing Fatherly Luv... For memories is what brings us to sanity, so continue to make many from here on out & also, grab those memories with a strong hold as they are floating around us, with in us & For us... Tomorrow is not promised so hold on to, Today, & Alicia Thank U for Your Skills & Mad Talent, but mostly for U sharing with us A Part of Your Life to Help us ALL Balance.... & O' Yea, Bella Keyz, sige con todos tus Sexy movimientos!!!!! :}
On Jan 6, 2010 my beautiful sister passed away in a car accident. On Christmas day she told me that we were going to see you live in concert in March. I was so excited and felt so happy that me and her
were going to spend and share this time together. We haven't done something like this in forever. But now she is no longer here, and my heart is broken. I wish that I would have had the chance to share that with her.
I thought your blog entry was particularly touching like most things coming from you. At any rate this doesn't really touch the spiritual subject of your writing but do you have any idea how many psychos listen to your music? I'm not ashamed to admit my sensitivity to it just because I am a man. I mean, it has sort of a nuturing quality to it, to the extent, that, for example: Whenever I feel like stabbing somebody, I turn on a beautiful, emotional Alicia Keys record, and all of the sudden I feel soulful and happy. Not to say that I'm a psycho but your music seems to tone down negative feelings. Just thought I'd write that to you. You are helping the murder rate go down in New York, I think. Isn't that lovely?
well that is true and about 4 yrs ago i lost my cousin. he was 21 yrs old and he was the leader of the family. he kept us all together and would take us evrywhere like camping. everytime i hear a certain song it reminds me of him.im so glad that i at least got to kno him unlike my 5 yr old cousin. i was 9 when he passed away.
Beautiful post alicia ...
A year ago I lost my aunt, she was very important for my family. Sometimes I also remember my grandfather in songs or stories that he told me.
I lost my Stepmother on January 22nd 2010; She was the leader of the family. although just 2 weeks have passed by I'm still stunned by what happened. Listening to "How it feels to fly" has softened the hurt somewhat. Ms. Keys your music in the new album has been very comforting to me in this time period. My Stepmother was the only mother that I knew since I was 14 years old. I wish you continued sucess, and I look forward to your upcoming concerts in Detroit in March.
Every word, every glance, every laughter, every moment is important in a life because everything can make us relive a distant moment. Before people told me not to listen to the rn' b or of soul because they were or saying about the music for the women. But the first time when I saw and heard a magnificent voice of teenager (Alicia Keys), I am to fall direct under the charm and just like that I became a person quiet and happy to live.
And it has me to call back when my friends said that they were the music for woman lol.
The only fear is that one day I get up and that I hear a bad piece of news announcing the disappearance of alicia. You are young alicia, take advantage of good moments in family because later you will regret. We realize the happiness when one her lost.
The small alicia of fallin became a woman today. I grew with your musics also.
It is when the marriage and when you made us a little boy who will name MOUSTAPHA lol
All of your posts inspire us to change our lives little by little, bit by bit, to make us better people. In every post, you give meaning to the subject at hand. Thank you, Alicia, for all your have done and do to make this world a better place to live in. You're the perfect rolemodel
Thank you for this post, it means so much! I too connect with those who have gone home thru my music and poetry. It allows me to feel emotions and give them PURPOSE,or function. Sadness or sorrow without a healthy outlet can lead you down the wrong path, so I make sure to keep upon "expressing myself" when those times come on me. Your music follows me everywhere I go, I make sure of it!
My mother died before I truned 18, and the upcoming holidays are sometimes hard for me to enjoy, fully. At the tiem, I could not greive, I didnt know how. I would turn on SONGS IN A MINOR, and just listen. Certain songs got put on repeat; 'Why Do I Feel So Sad', 'Fallin', and 'Troubles' topped the list. 'Butterflies' was next, @fter all the tears and hurt were gone from me, for the moment....
THE DIARY helped me thereafter. I wasn't able to identify with the musicif my"generation", generation X. Or Y, maybe? Either way, you areone of FEW artisit that motivated me internally, like I knew you. You are one of the few that I felt could REALLY help me heal thru your music - And you DID!. There is a presence you create when you come thru those speakers. This gift you have, unlike most, is a personal blessing that only YOU are entitled to. However, with that, your gift is a gift to OTHERS - Thats the blessing! Thank you for sharing your girft with me so many years ago.
Your voice and incredible albums is have always been points of reference for me, especialy when I look back and see how far I have come. I wondered, "how does she know how that feels....how I feel...?". I didnt wonder too long coz I finally (got the internet and) was able to learn all about you, your contributions, your whole life. I saw a REAL WOMAN (that was how you knew!).
I am enjoying watchin you grow and spread your wings Alicia! I am fan#1 in a million!
thank you Alicia for sharing this with us, you are so right I can almost see my abue (grandma) when I hear this song she love to sing ... miss her so much
You are so spiritual, you will bless many! I love reading what you write. My lover jahada would love to meet you one day. She has your peace and I am bless to be in her space. We will meet you one day! You are a light shining for sooooo many....We love you Alicia! jahada and sapp-hirepoetry
jesus christ for give me I miss up
this is bad real bad have
miss up and GOD Im losting
it over a woman I dont no
and God her name is Alicia Keys
dont let this go down like this
jesus christ
GOD HALPE ME
if god can for give me
Alicia Keys can you
I just love you Alicia Keys I need you
Currently, my father is dying from lung cancer. I was told ever since I got adopted that I’m his little girl and he didn't even birth me into this world. I love him with all of my heart and everything I do is for him to be proud of me. He never was ashamed of some of my teenage mishaps, attended every game I had in high school, always snuck me in the house when I broke curfew, and gave me the simplest advice to life that I could understand. Right now it’s hard for me to even be typing this because me and my family is actually seeing him slipping away, waiting until the day he finally passes. If it wasn't for my belief in God, I would have broke down a very long time ago. I know he's with me always and I can never let go of all what he help me pave to do in life. The only man that knows me best is dying and I don't even know what to say when I see him. Do I say Hey dad, see you in heaven or I love you dad, I’m going to miss you or please don't leave me, I need you? I feel as though no one will know what I’m going through but that’s very selfish to say but it’s so painful to see him in so much pain. I always ask the hospice nurse if there is anything someone out there can do, and she always gives me this pathetic look as if to say, ' it will be OK'. How would she know? Did she know our 'special' bond, was she there when my father continually to open his arms for me and I went astray? Or better yet, does anybody know how it feels? Too painful to discuss yet I’m still typing. I want to question God on the why's and why not's, but that will be wasteful. Life is a part of death but to me death is a part of life. I have to embody everything he has been to me and wear on my face each and every day of my life. I have to stay strong and steadfast so I can be able to get through today's trials and tribulations. I have to pray constantly to the lord on keeping me sane because as we all know the universal condition; you can't stop bad things from happening. Wallace Stevens said Death is the mother of beauty. Death is the meaning to what we do in life I assume. So with that being said, I say that to say this: Pops, you’re the father of beauty to me and you, my mother and grand pop in heaven, and of course God will be the motivation to what I do in life until my day comes. Love.Live.life. (written by me in Oct 29th, 08) he died Nov 14th 08. I think about about him everyday....but i will always have his beliefs he taught me instilled in my heart 4ever.
This Christmas was my first without my husband he has been deployed for the past year. The Element of Freedom just described what I was feeling and the music was very emotional and alive. I want to thank you for beautiful words and lasting memories. My husband will be back and has never been to a concert of any kind. We will be sitting in the second row and I know he will love the music and the experience. He will just have come home one week prior to the concert at Staples. We look forward to the live experience and the music that I will always remember with my husband at my side finally.
I am not a person of many words,but i just wanted to let you know how much i appreciate you and the things you do and the person you are.we are truly blessed to have you in all our lives even though it's on the television screen.you are both beautiful on the outside and on the inside.
That was really beautiful and moving. and i think your right. for example, micheal Jackson
he will never truely be dead because his music still lives on. that was imprint ofn the world and i don't think it will ever fade. Not ever.
I would like to tell something about my Uroma, she is 93 years old and suffers from Dimenz. Whenever I is a matter visiting them, I miss the old times where it was not ill yet. Today I had to hear again like one said grandma has happened again a little bit, I may not think of the day if she goes of us, from me goes. I love them so much that me the thought is right quite absolutely sadly. I can do nothing against it, she recognises me only seldom. I lack her words, words such as, ah, my Finchen...
Therefore, I hear with pleasure your music, she lets me hope, makes easier to me the thought that she goes sometime from us... She said sometimes to me: I will be 100 years old, with it you me still long has my Fine. The years pass and now only seven are absent, then she is 100 years old ... and then nobody white...sorry my english is not very well...
Yes, they do. All artists come to that feeling that they don't just create things for them selves or things from themselves. And if just ask yourself why you are great, why others love you - it will be because of those before you, those who have put the idea of greatness....magic....
Even though they are gone physicly, there spirit will always follow you around but sometimes its not the same.
My grandmother is sick, and I don't know what I would do if I put my keys in her door and she wasn't sitting there on the couch watching the TV or greating me with a smile. Asking me how my day was and catching me up with the part of the story I has missed on the talk show she was watching. Or telling me funny storys of events that happend when she was a teenager growing up in the west indies.
But there will always be a pice of are grandmothers, that we will cary with us for life and pass onto are children.
It seems you are a spiritual person. For me, I don't think I can visit them, nor can they visit me. Miss them I do. Forget them I won't. But, one thing is for sure, I have the hope to maybe see them in the future.
wow i can definitely relate to that i miss my grandma's cooking and even her stories about me singing at 6 years old with no front teeth. Music is my life i live it everyday through the eyes of my grandma and the things she did to make me keep alive. I would really like to meet Alecia Keyes someday which is also my 4 year old daughter's dream her music lives in us is a part of our everyday lives she inspires us and more than anything her stories are very strong and what she does is very inspiring. With my family album i remind myself how much i was loved by my grandparents who all passed on. Alecia keep doing what you are doing my daughter Anecia would love to meet you and it would be a dream come true if i meet you so please tell me how. She definitely live in your music even when i don't know she goes mommy alecia keyes we love you alecia.
That was a beautiful piece of writing, and I know and feel the exact same thing.
In my culture people carry on the lessons learned and the most valuable memories using music and stories.
I'm a 24 year old man who has slightly forgotten this and where I have come from, and will now make sure I remember and never loose it again. I feel sad that I've let my culture go, but I am not lost.
My loved ones are only a song away.
I better get rid of the dust on my guitar and the rust in my mind. And play.
Yet another way music has indirectly made my life amazing.
Musicians opening up their hearts and minds to the world.
Wow Alicia beautiful text. You're right and you can be sure, but they are in your music and always looking at you and even more are surely proud of you, the super person, which is superwoman.
God bless you follow, you always illuminating, so you can continue from this beautiful vision of life to people who you admire and to others who need this vision. Te amo, moreover, Brazil loves you. Beijos more than big. and sorry for my bad English: S
My girlfriend's grandpa died yesterday. And is hard for us. Every word i can say, or every think i can do....i think is not enough, you know? My grandma died a few years ago, was hard. But the acceptation was my salvation... acceptation...or maybe resignation.But now, my girlfriend is broken and i don't have any words to say. I can be there, with all her family, stay quiet....silence...
I've one magical think to do when i'm missing my family and friends i visit them in my dreams. always. Someday we are on Amsterdam, Someday playing basketball on the city.... or someday in the beeeeeest spa of the whole world! it depends of the moment!
So.... where you wanna go today?maybe the bahamas? NYC? China? Oh! tonight, we have the most bigest and shiny moon of all the year (is 22'59 overhere), do you want to come? I have "Creppes" for eat!!!!
Hi Alicia, i once heard an old African saying at a friends funeral that "people are only forgotten when all the lives they have touched also leave this world, but when we pass on what we have learnt from them they continue to live on, generation after generation". So share all u have learned from ur nana.
Alicia ur right, we do think about the things we love 2 do with that person u grew up with and love and that's that family member who made u laugh so hard wen ur doing that favourite thing with them and wen they're gone' it never feels the same way, it's the same thing with my late brother, we used 2 b really close and i loved his jamaican droppings or as some call it coconut cake(coconut cut small and boiled in sugar and left 2 dry) so delicious, he made me laugh so hard all d time, i really miss him and he made such fun out of horror movies and oh how i know he was scared.
Since I was a kid I lived abroad in different places and did not have such a close relationship with my grandma. She passed away recently .I had the chance to spend some wonderful moments with her in Hospital. There she was this small woman with a wonderful, witty and unique sense of humor till the last minute. Between visits and waiting in the corridors I listened to my aunties and cousins stories about her. For them Grandma will live in the memories of those special moments and anything,- a song, a place, a photo , anything that evokes those memories. And how I wish I had more of those. It is very important not to let distance and time stop us from sharing, caring, creating a bond and its lasting memories memories.
It’s beautiful that you would start the New Year’s first blog with your Nana as the topic.
My Grandma was my first hero. After her, came others that I would label my heroes and heroines. But she was the first. Even before I would come to know what the words “in awe of” meant as a child, I was in awe of her because she was a natural leader in the community. She carried herself with a spiritual grace that was wrapped in the special love sautéed with wisdom.
She had natural charisma to a point that family had little choice but to share her with neighbors as well as strangers who had heard of her by reputation and found a way to come and meet her.
Yes she was one of those special people whose house was open to anyone who wanted to stop in for a very tasty meal and discuss a problem they were having.
What I had come to realize by the time I was in middle school, was that I could never be the “Bad Boy” type. You know, the kind that the present social climate says is “cool”. Meaning the misuse and abuse of women is alright because everybody is doing it.
No, won’t be down for that. Not after having been blessed with a Grandma like the one I had.
Of course that would mean I would have to suffer the consequences of not following the pack.
So when the doors began to close on me, one lone door on the far right wall, would swing open. I would just whisper to myself, “Okay Grandma, let’s go see what is on the other side of that door over there”. Only to find out that what I had found on the other side of that door was far more valuable than I had even could have imagined! Yes!! I and Grandma makin it happen old school style!!
Nothing can truly take our love ones away from us, but us.
Beautiful Alicia!
Thanks Alicia for writting this, you made me think of my mother and the things she and I shared. I think of her when I hear the gospel songs she loved to sing. I can still hear her tell me Becky you need to think things through. Thank you for writting this, because I have tryed to push my pain inside and tryed to forget everything because it hurt so bad. But now I can see the good times we had and I know they will always be there no matter what comes or goes in my life. Thank You!!!!
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I feel the exact same way. Alicia knows just how we feel in anything. I lost my grandfather last January who I hadn't seen since they were saved from hurricane Katrina. He was the only member on my father's side that truly cared about us, even knew I and my sister's name. (The step-family was fairly rude after all we had done and we couldn't see him often.) Around Christmas of 2009, my family and I watched The Princess and the Frog which had us all crying in the end. I especially related to the lightening bug Ray who had that charm about him, just like my grandpa from New Orleans where the movie is set. When he passed that month around MLK's birthday, all I could think about was Ray. His eyes lit up the same way as Ray's light. It really helped me through. Now every time I watch the movie, it makes me smile and think about him. I'm glad there are things like Alicia has music that remind her of loved ones. Perfect blog.
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I miss my Nana too.
And she also lives on inside of me.
I share with others things she taught and showed me.
Life lessons.
Giving positive experiences to others.
Life is short, but its dynamic and filled with purpose.
Thank you Alicia for inspiring so many others
J
Re: ...they live in my music...
We do miss loved ones who were close to us and when they are gone there is an emptiness inside that resides. But music is the best way to feel them because melodies are replayed and in the the moments we lived, the experiences we had, they are all embedded in the very same music that we play or listen to each day. Its a compilation of sweet memories that we want to keep with us forever. Thats why we love music so much! We will not always have the time to cook, or do the things that everyone else is doing but you my dear have music which is everything.
Re: ...they live in my music...
Indeed -- this is so true. So much lives in the art that we, as humans create. I was so moved by your
I thought -- "Gee, She would be awesome as Lena Horne in a biopic!" I'm a writer -- I'd love to write the screenplay for that!
Also, you remind me of a teacher I had in early high school. I was the only white kid in an all black school, south Chicago, circa 1970s. I wrote a screenplay about it ... I only just thought today how much you remind me of my Black History teacher. What a rich time that was. Never forget it as long as I live.
That time of my life informs so much of my writing and who I am, today.
Peace,
Always a fan
Susan S. Davis
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Yes, so do I .. Love you music. Cant wait to go home and turn on you music. thank you for all you gifts to the society..
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I truly believe that you are just that inspiring to move people like you move your family with your music and all that you do. I'm fifteen years old and some of the music that my peers listen to has no true meaning and i admire you for being able to have meaning in your music. To me that it what is important. You've been my favorite artist since I was in the first grade because your music just made me feel good. i might not have understood the meanings of your music then but Everyone knows good music when they hear it. And your piano playing moves me too. I've always played the piano but a lot of my friends say that it's lame or they don't see why i do it so much. But it's my safe place and your skills with the piano are crazy girl.
Anyway i enjoy hearing you perform and your talent is real and sincere and that inspires the hell outta me.
Thank you for being my positive inspiration.
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You are a wise in your words and thoughts, as well as your music. I become more indulged with your music every day .
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...and your music will sound for an eternity.
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Thts so tru...many are tha tyms u js sit n cnt help 2 mis them....music heals n thts`y they liv in it,js a soft tune n t all kinda fls the same again...
alicia
You are amazing.
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Then you make the best music. Not many people write and sing what's real today. Keep it real. You're Nana wants you to. She doesn't want you to forget what's real. Keep her in your heart and you'll always spiritually feel her presence as long as God allows you to. Keep him in your heart as well. He will guide you and help you send good messages in your songs about life and love and to reach people, just as he did Marvin Gaye when he wrote What's Going On and more.
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Miss Alecia i also live in your music. Family is the most important thing in this world and beyond. Our heavenly father is the most important thing. I just have to thank him for letting me see the rolls. Letting me get to know that scent . Letting me be accepted by her to touch her mind body and soul. There are just somethings youll never forget. I will never forget her i always wondered what happened to her. Why did she just dissapear like that? Maybe i was not good enough for her and she had bigger and better things to do. Thanks to GOD for just letting me have those moments. IamMike7 ( I always want to keep it 1 to 1)
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Unthinkable is such a powerful song. Listening to it made me realize why
I love the man that I am with. It help me to get past all the hurt in my life and just love.
Love is the greatest. Love conquers all. In the mist of all of my storms love trumps it all.
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I'm speechless...
You're the most inspiring woman i've ever seen.
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aww that's so real and sweet butmy family memories live through just mosly everything I do like whenever I talk so give certain glare my mom always says that I look like my father but hweever I feel at lost form dad I just read remember eveything that we've done together like the long talks and the fatthat we both love strawberries it's just mostly memories one has as in memories never fade wen they are joyous ones......
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BELLA MUJER, REINA DE MI VIDA....... As i sit here watching ur Videos, with a " koolaid smile" & SOOOO tuned in to ur Lyrics & o YES ur moves, i try to figure out a way to send u a message directly, where only u could view... However as i continue to read abt u & surf around ur page, i ended up here.. Now im left speechless in a way... Everything i wanted to say B 4 this, is all meaningless...
Bella Mujer con tanto Talento, U R the Rock of our lifes... I have sat here reading peoples stories, as some bring tears to my very eyes... God Bless U Bella & ALL the ones out their hurting over lost luvd ones or for any reason at all...
I am A Strong Puerto Rican female, but thru out life, i have realized & accepted that even the strong get weak, & that, it is ok to feel weak as we are all, ONLY Human, & tryna survive in this mad world, with some that are evil & some that are sweet.. Recently, i have entered into a serious R'ship with a woman 4 the 1st time, only to B left with my Heart in my Hand & a Lost Mind.. As i sit here trying to let Go & move on with my Life, i find plenty Comfort in ur Songs & in Everything U Write!! I can't really relate, to losing a luved one, U see all my life i have felt alone. With no Grandma or Grandpa to call my very own.. Family all ova from Jersey & New York to Florida & Puerto Rico, but thru out all my life they where & continue to be, so distant , so @ times i wonder from here, where do i Go.. No Family Memories that i can hold on to, like others can, from Family Holiday Parties to simple Bar B'Ques.. No Family Vacations, Family Reunions, Family Outings or even Family Weddings..
So, Bella Alicia, & the Rest of " Her Family / Fans " continue to cherish the simple memories from Grandma's cookin to ya sistas singin or screamin, from your cousins Leadership ways to Grandpa's laughter, From that Beautiful Mother n Child R'ship to that Amazing Fatherly Luv... For memories is what brings us to sanity, so continue to make many from here on out & also, grab those memories with a strong hold as they are floating around us, with in us & For us... Tomorrow is not promised so hold on to, Today, & Alicia Thank U for Your Skills & Mad Talent, but mostly for U sharing with us A Part of Your Life to Help us ALL Balance.... & O' Yea, Bella Keyz, sige con todos tus Sexy movimientos!!!!! :}
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....so!... for this music...
..."we will go beyond the borders"...!
....so!...i'm comming!...
stolen moments
please could you sing it at the nia concert in may? i pray i beg please pleaseeeeeeee
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On Jan 6, 2010 my beautiful sister passed away in a car accident. On Christmas day she told me that we were going to see you live in concert in March. I was so excited and felt so happy that me and her
were going to spend and share this time together. We haven't done something like this in forever. But now she is no longer here, and my heart is broken. I wish that I would have had the chance to share that with her.
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Alicia,
I thought your blog entry was particularly touching like most things coming from you. At any rate this doesn't really touch the spiritual subject of your writing but do you have any idea how many psychos listen to your music? I'm not ashamed to admit my sensitivity to it just because I am a man. I mean, it has sort of a nuturing quality to it, to the extent, that, for example: Whenever I feel like stabbing somebody, I turn on a beautiful, emotional Alicia Keys record, and all of the sudden I feel soulful and happy. Not to say that I'm a psycho but your music seems to tone down negative feelings. Just thought I'd write that to you. You are helping the murder rate go down in New York, I think. Isn't that lovely?
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well that is true and about 4 yrs ago i lost my cousin. he was 21 yrs old and he was the leader of the family. he kept us all together and would take us evrywhere like camping. everytime i hear a certain song it reminds me of him.im so glad that i at least got to kno him unlike my 5 yr old cousin. i was 9 when he passed away.
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Beautiful post alicia ...
A year ago I lost my aunt, she was very important for my family. Sometimes I also remember my grandfather in songs or stories that he told me.
Thank you for having that feeling so special.
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I lost my Stepmother on January 22nd 2010; She was the leader of the family. although just 2 weeks have passed by I'm still stunned by what happened. Listening to "How it feels to fly" has softened the hurt somewhat. Ms. Keys your music in the new album has been very comforting to me in this time period. My Stepmother was the only mother that I knew since I was 14 years old. I wish you continued sucess, and I look forward to your upcoming concerts in Detroit in March.
Yours for a better Detroit;
Kenneth Reed
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Every word, every glance, every laughter, every moment is important in a life because everything can make us relive a distant moment. Before people told me not to listen to the rn' b or of soul because they were or saying about the music for the women. But the first time when I saw and heard a magnificent voice of teenager (Alicia Keys), I am to fall direct under the charm and just like that I became a person quiet and happy to live.
And it has me to call back when my friends said that they were the music for woman lol.
The only fear is that one day I get up and that I hear a bad piece of news announcing the disappearance of alicia. You are young alicia, take advantage of good moments in family because later you will regret. We realize the happiness when one her lost.
The small alicia of fallin became a woman today. I grew with your musics also.
It is when the marriage and when you made us a little boy who will name MOUSTAPHA lol
Thank you for all your love
Moustapha
www.keepachildalive.skyrock.com
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All of your posts inspire us to change our lives little by little, bit by bit, to make us better people. In every post, you give meaning to the subject at hand. Thank you, Alicia, for all your have done and do to make this world a better place to live in. You're the perfect rolemodel
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Thank you for this post, it means so much! I too connect with those who have gone home thru my music and poetry. It allows me to feel emotions and give them PURPOSE,or function. Sadness or sorrow without a healthy outlet can lead you down the wrong path, so I make sure to keep upon "expressing myself" when those times come on me. Your music follows me everywhere I go, I make sure of it!
My mother died before I truned 18, and the upcoming holidays are sometimes hard for me to enjoy, fully. At the tiem, I could not greive, I didnt know how. I would turn on SONGS IN A MINOR, and just listen. Certain songs got put on repeat; 'Why Do I Feel So Sad', 'Fallin', and 'Troubles' topped the list. 'Butterflies' was next, @fter all the tears and hurt were gone from me, for the moment....
THE DIARY helped me thereafter. I wasn't able to identify with the musicif my"generation", generation X. Or Y, maybe? Either way, you areone of FEW artisit that motivated me internally, like I knew you. You are one of the few that I felt could REALLY help me heal thru your music - And you DID!. There is a presence you create when you come thru those speakers. This gift you have, unlike most, is a personal blessing that only YOU are entitled to. However, with that, your gift is a gift to OTHERS - Thats the blessing! Thank you for sharing your girft with me so many years ago.
Your voice and incredible albums is have always been points of reference for me, especialy when I look back and see how far I have come. I wondered, "how does she know how that feels....how I feel...?". I didnt wonder too long coz I finally (got the internet and) was able to learn all about you, your contributions, your whole life. I saw a REAL WOMAN (that was how you knew!).
I am enjoying watchin you grow and spread your wings Alicia! I am fan#1 in a million!
-L_B323
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Come to Brazil, seriously! We can't wait to hear you down here because No one, no one...
will know how we feel when you get to South America!! Hollar!
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thank you Alicia for sharing this with us, you are so right I can almost see my abue (grandma) when I hear this song she love to sing ... miss her so much
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You are so spiritual, you will bless many! I love reading what you write. My lover jahada would love to meet you one day. She has your peace and I am bless to be in her space. We will meet you one day! You are a light shining for sooooo many....We love you Alicia! jahada and sapp-hirepoetry
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jesus christ for give me I miss up
this is bad real bad have
miss up and GOD Im losting
it over a woman I dont no
and God her name is Alicia Keys
dont let this go down like this
jesus christ
GOD HALPE ME
if god can for give me
Alicia Keys can you
I just love you Alicia Keys I need you
to Alicia Keys
from Scott Houston
her true fan
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Currently, my father is dying from lung cancer. I was told ever since I got adopted that I’m his little girl and he didn't even birth me into this world. I love him with all of my heart and everything I do is for him to be proud of me. He never was ashamed of some of my teenage mishaps, attended every game I had in high school, always snuck me in the house when I broke curfew, and gave me the simplest advice to life that I could understand. Right now it’s hard for me to even be typing this because me and my family is actually seeing him slipping away, waiting until the day he finally passes. If it wasn't for my belief in God, I would have broke down a very long time ago. I know he's with me always and I can never let go of all what he help me pave to do in life. The only man that knows me best is dying and I don't even know what to say when I see him. Do I say Hey dad, see you in heaven or I love you dad, I’m going to miss you or please don't leave me, I need you? I feel as though no one will know what I’m going through but that’s very selfish to say but it’s so painful to see him in so much pain. I always ask the hospice nurse if there is anything someone out there can do, and she always gives me this pathetic look as if to say, ' it will be OK'. How would she know? Did she know our 'special' bond, was she there when my father continually to open his arms for me and I went astray? Or better yet, does anybody know how it feels? Too painful to discuss yet I’m still typing. I want to question God on the why's and why not's, but that will be wasteful. Life is a part of death but to me death is a part of life. I have to embody everything he has been to me and wear on my face each and every day of my life. I have to stay strong and steadfast so I can be able to get through today's trials and tribulations. I have to pray constantly to the lord on keeping me sane because as we all know the universal condition; you can't stop bad things from happening. Wallace Stevens said Death is the mother of beauty. Death is the meaning to what we do in life I assume. So with that being said, I say that to say this: Pops, you’re the father of beauty to me and you, my mother and grand pop in heaven, and of course God will be the motivation to what I do in life until my day comes. Love.Live.life. (written by me in Oct 29th, 08) he died Nov 14th 08. I think about about him everyday....but i will always have his beliefs he taught me instilled in my heart 4ever.
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This Christmas was my first without my husband he has been deployed for the past year. The Element of Freedom just described what I was feeling and the music was very emotional and alive. I want to thank you for beautiful words and lasting memories. My husband will be back and has never been to a concert of any kind. We will be sitting in the second row and I know he will love the music and the experience. He will just have come home one week prior to the concert at Staples. We look forward to the live experience and the music that I will always remember with my husband at my side finally.
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I am not a person of many words,but i just wanted to let you know how much i appreciate you and the things you do and the person you are.we are truly blessed to have you in all our lives even though it's on the television screen.you are both beautiful on the outside and on the inside.
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That was really beautiful and moving. and i think your right. for example, micheal Jackson
he will never truely be dead because his music still lives on. that was imprint ofn the world and i don't think it will ever fade. Not ever.
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wow thats so deep very nice
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I would like to tell something about my Uroma, she is 93 years old and suffers from Dimenz. Whenever I is a matter visiting them, I miss the old times where it was not ill yet. Today I had to hear again like one said grandma has happened again a little bit, I may not think of the day if she goes of us, from me goes. I love them so much that me the thought is right quite absolutely sadly. I can do nothing against it, she recognises me only seldom. I lack her words, words such as, ah, my Finchen...
Therefore, I hear with pleasure your music, she lets me hope, makes easier to me the thought that she goes sometime from us... She said sometimes to me: I will be 100 years old, with it you me still long has my Fine. The years pass and now only seven are absent, then she is 100 years old ... and then nobody white...sorry my english is not very well...
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Yes, they do. All artists come to that feeling that they don't just create things for them selves or things from themselves. And if just ask yourself why you are great, why others love you - it will be because of those before you, those who have put the idea of greatness....magic....
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Even though they are gone physicly, there spirit will always follow you around but sometimes its not the same.
My grandmother is sick, and I don't know what I would do if I put my keys in her door and she wasn't sitting there on the couch watching the TV or greating me with a smile. Asking me how my day was and catching me up with the part of the story I has missed on the talk show she was watching. Or telling me funny storys of events that happend when she was a teenager growing up in the west indies.
But there will always be a pice of are grandmothers, that we will cary with us for life and pass onto are children.
Much Love
Venessa.B
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It seems you are a spiritual person. For me, I don't think I can visit them, nor can they visit me. Miss them I do. Forget them I won't. But, one thing is for sure, I have the hope to maybe see them in the future.
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wow i can definitely relate to that i miss my grandma's cooking and even her stories about me singing at 6 years old with no front teeth. Music is my life i live it everyday through the eyes of my grandma and the things she did to make me keep alive. I would really like to meet Alecia Keyes someday which is also my 4 year old daughter's dream her music lives in us is a part of our everyday lives she inspires us and more than anything her stories are very strong and what she does is very inspiring. With my family album i remind myself how much i was loved by my grandparents who all passed on. Alecia keep doing what you are doing my daughter Anecia would love to meet you and it would be a dream come true if i meet you so please tell me how. She definitely live in your music even when i don't know she goes mommy alecia keyes we love you alecia.
Memories give life after death.
That was a beautiful piece of writing, and I know and feel the exact same thing.
In my culture people carry on the lessons learned and the most valuable memories using music and stories.
I'm a 24 year old man who has slightly forgotten this and where I have come from, and will now make sure I remember and never loose it again. I feel sad that I've let my culture go, but I am not lost.
My loved ones are only a song away.
I better get rid of the dust on my guitar and the rust in my mind. And play.
Yet another way music has indirectly made my life amazing.
Musicians opening up their hearts and minds to the world.
Much appreciated Alicia!
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Wow Alicia beautiful text. You're right and you can be sure, but they are in your music and always looking at you and even more are surely proud of you, the super person, which is superwoman.
God bless you follow, you always illuminating, so you can continue from this beautiful vision of life to people who you admire and to others who need this vision. Te amo, moreover, Brazil loves you. Beijos more than big. and sorry for my bad English: S
Jessica Nepomuceno, BR.
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Woooowwww! You make me smile!!!!
My girlfriend's grandpa died yesterday. And is hard for us. Every word i can say, or every think i can do....i think is not enough, you know? My grandma died a few years ago, was hard. But the acceptation was my salvation... acceptation...or maybe resignation.But now, my girlfriend is broken and i don't have any words to say. I can be there, with all her family, stay quiet....silence...
I've one magical think to do when i'm missing my family and friends
i visit them in my dreams. always. Someday we are on Amsterdam, Someday playing basketball on the city.... or someday in the beeeeeest spa of the whole world! it depends of the moment! 
So.... where you wanna go today?maybe the bahamas? NYC? China? Oh! tonight, we have the most bigest and shiny moon of all the year (is 22'59 overhere), do you want to come? I have "Creppes" for eat!!!!
Kiss kiss!!!!
Cris
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Hi Alicia, i once heard an old African saying at a friends funeral that "people are only forgotten when all the lives they have touched also leave this world, but when we pass on what we have learnt from them they continue to live on, generation after generation". So share all u have learned from ur nana.
God Bless
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Alicia ur right, we do think about the things we love 2 do with that person u grew up with and love and that's that family member who made u laugh so hard wen ur doing that favourite thing with them and wen they're gone' it never feels the same way, it's the same thing with my late brother, we used 2 b really close and i loved his jamaican droppings or as some call it coconut cake(coconut cut small and boiled in sugar and left 2 dry) so delicious, he made me laugh so hard all d time, i really miss him and he made such fun out of horror movies and oh how i know he was scared.
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Since I was a kid I lived abroad in different places and did not have such a close relationship with my grandma. She passed away recently .I had the chance to spend some wonderful moments with her in Hospital. There she was this small woman with a wonderful, witty and unique sense of humor till the last minute. Between visits and waiting in the corridors I listened to my aunties and cousins stories about her. For them Grandma will live in the memories of those special moments and anything,- a song, a place, a photo , anything that evokes those memories. And how I wish I had more of those. It is very important not to let distance and time stop us from sharing, caring, creating a bond and its lasting memories memories.
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It’s beautiful that you would start the New Year’s first blog with your Nana as the topic.
My Grandma was my first hero. After her, came others that I would label my heroes and heroines. But she was the first. Even before I would come to know what the words “in awe of” meant as a child, I was in awe of her because she was a natural leader in the community. She carried herself with a spiritual grace that was wrapped in the special love sautéed with wisdom.
She had natural charisma to a point that family had little choice but to share her with neighbors as well as strangers who had heard of her by reputation and found a way to come and meet her.
Yes she was one of those special people whose house was open to anyone who wanted to stop in for a very tasty meal and discuss a problem they were having.
What I had come to realize by the time I was in middle school, was that I could never be the “Bad Boy” type. You know, the kind that the present social climate says is “cool”. Meaning the misuse and abuse of women is alright because everybody is doing it.
No, won’t be down for that. Not after having been blessed with a Grandma like the one I had.
Of course that would mean I would have to suffer the consequences of not following the pack.
So when the doors began to close on me, one lone door on the far right wall, would swing open. I would just whisper to myself, “Okay Grandma, let’s go see what is on the other side of that door over there”. Only to find out that what I had found on the other side of that door was far more valuable than I had even could have imagined! Yes!! I and Grandma makin it happen old school style!!
Nothing can truly take our love ones away from us, but us.
Beautiful Alicia!
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Thanks for sharing... I can definetely relate!!!
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Thanks Alicia for writting this, you made me think of my mother and the things she and I shared. I think of her when I hear the gospel songs she loved to sing. I can still hear her tell me Becky you need to think things through. Thank you for writting this, because I have tryed to push my pain inside and tryed to forget everything because it hurt so bad. But now I can see the good times we had and I know they will always be there no matter what comes or goes in my life. Thank You!!!!