LATEST: ALICIA KEYS wants to follow in the footsteps of ANGELINA JOLIE and adopt a brood of multi-racial children.

The singer insists she loves kids and working alongside South African orphans in 2006 charity movie We Are Together made her broody to have children of her own.

But the 28-year-old insists motherhood is on the backburner for now, while she pursues her singing career.

Speaking to WENN at a special screening of the movie in New York City on Thursday night, Keys said, “I’ve always loved kids. Kids are so important. It’s important to nurture and spend time with them and listen to them.

“I’m not ready to be a mom. But (adoption) is something that is important to consider. That’s what I really admire about Angelina. I think it’s beautiful the way she embraces children of the world.”

And she insists she would like to create a family of different cultures, like Jolie: “We are all one. We’re not as separate as we oftentimes think. So I possibly would (adopt), when I’m more in the motherhood stage of my life.”

Keys leads an intensely private personal life, but is rumoured to be dating and planning to marry record producer and business partner Kerry ‘Krucial’ Brothers.

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Singing star Alicia Keys has helped to raise huge amounts of money for the Keep a Child Alive charity during her concert in Los Angeles California on Monday night. She is asking fans to text the organization.Concertgoers like Britney Spears and Nick Lachey were urged to take out their cellphones and text the word ‘Alive’ to the number 90999. Key told fans the correspondence would result in a donation of $5.00 per text to help fight HIV/AIDS in Africa.

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Singing star Janet Jackson is admitting a crush on Alicia Keys. Janet has been dogged by rumors that she’s gay and bisexual for years and she admits she no longer cares. But, if she had to choose a female, she’d pick Keys. She says, “I would pick Alicia Keys, for sure. I think she’s wonderful.” And, if she could pick out her next life, Jackson insists she’d come back as a man - and date a sex-changed Jermaine Dupri, her current partner. She tells Eonline.com, “In my next life I’m going to come back as a guy and he’s going to be my bitch.” Jackson is thrilled about her upcoming GLAAD Vanguard Award honor, because she’s convinced it comes at a time when gay acceptance is better than ever.The singer will be honored for her work as a gay rights advocate at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s 19th Annual Media Awards in Hollywood on Saturday. She tells Eonline.com, “You still have discrimination. It’s sad. It really is. But, I think, slowly but surely, it’s getting better.”

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Singing star Alicia Keys will marry her producer boyfriend Kerry “Krucial” Brothers in New York this summer, according to reports.Star magazine claims the couple has booked Oheka Castle in Long Island, New York for a ceremony on July 4. Bosses at the 32-bedroom French-style chateau have confirmed a wedding will take place that weekend, but have refused to reveal the identity of the bride and groom. Keys and Brothers have never spoken openly about their relationship. They have been songwriting partners for years, co-owning the Krucial Keys production company and New York’s Oven Recording Studios. A representative for the R&B star has yet to confirm or deny the wedding reports.

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Alicia Keys took to Ryan Seacrest’s radio show yesterday to try and “clarify statements” she made in an interview with Blender Magazine. She insists she was happy with the article, but just wishes she could change a line or two. Alicia said her comments were misinterpreted, and that she just couldn’t believe the article caused so much controversy. Here is what she had to say exactly.”I feel that I wasn’t a hundred per cent clear on what I was saying and so, because of that, it got slightly misinterpreted, and somehow it got misinterpreted that I was saying that the government was creating gangsta rap - and that’s not what I was saying.

I thought it was a pretty simple sentence she used, and she said gangsta rap was created by the government.

“What I was saying was that the term gangsta rap was so over sloganized during that time… That’s what I was trying to talk about.”

Ahh. So the government created the slogan gangsta rap. Kind of like the government printing office was out there making bumper stickers that said Gangsta Rap and the colors were red white and blue on a stars and stripes background. PSA’s were filmed with 41 and 43 doing rap while Clinton played, sax, Gore did the robot, Cheney had a gun and Quayle played with his dolls in a corner.

“In so many ways, everyday people, as well as the government, could have really done so much more to sorta (sic) obliterate and eradicate the things that were going on in the communities at that time that forced the artists to discuss and talk about, so strongly, what they saw, what they lived with.”

I agree that the government has not done much to help those struggling in our own country. It is a fair and valid point, and if she had said that originally instead of after a label pr person thought of it, things would be much better. I do think that to a certain extent rap took off because of the conditions in inner cities and that the original artists were expressing what they saw and felt. HOWEVER, what it has turned into is a misogynistic free for all with guys out to prove they also come from the streets when many of them actually come from the upper middle class.

“I wasn’t saying that I’m a conspiracy theorist, and I wasn’t saying that I’m anti-anyone because anybody who knows my character knows that I’m a very positive person… My only aim is to uplift people and spread love.

Actually, she didn’t really disprove the claim she is a conspiracy theorist because she made no mention of her claim that the government killed B.I.G and Tupac so there would be no powerful black leaders. Sorry Barack. She must not consider you powerful, or perhaps not black. Sorry Bob Johnson, you don’t count either. Apparently you can’t be worth a billion dollars and still qualify as a leader. Sheila Johnson? You must be kidding. No, not you either Oprah. Sorry. Richard Parsons? Please, like she would consider the Chairman of Time Warner to be powerful.

“You’re in an interview for half and hour, 45 minutes… and you’re talking about these different thoughts and ideas and I think… there’s a way that I didn’t exactly clarify what I meant to the point where he (the journalist) could misinterpret it. “I don’t regret doing this interview; overall it was a great article. It was merely a line or two that has provoked all of this madness. I regret that a negative spin has been put (on it).”

I regret that a negative spin was put on it as well, because I really like you. Give me a call, and lets talk about the whole killing off Tupac thing and go from there.
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Alicia Keys says she’s not a conspiracy theorist. In a statement issued Tuesday, Keys said she was clarifying “comments that were made during my recent Blender magazine interview since they have been misrepresented.”

According to an interview in the magazine’s May issue, the 27-year-old singer says: “`Gangsta rap’ was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. `Gangsta rap’ didn’t exist.” She also is quoted as saying that she wears a gold AK-47 pendant around her neck “to symbolize strength, power and killing ‘em dead.”

“We stand by our story,” Blender spokeswoman Kate Cafaro told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

“My comments about `gangsta rap’ were in no way trying to suggest that the government is responsible for creating this genre of rap music,” Keys said in a statement issued by J Records. “The point that I was trying to make was that the term was oversloganized by some of the media causing reactions that were not always positive. Many of the `gangsta rap’ lyrics articulate the problems of the artists’ experiences and I think all of us, including our leaders, could be doing more to address these problems including drugs, gang violence, crime, and other related social issues.”

As for the AK-47 remark, Keys said Tuesday that AK-47 is a nickname given to her by friends “as an acronym for Alicia Keys and a metaphor for wowing people with my music and performances, `killing ‘em dead’ on stage. The reference was in no way meant to have a literal, political or negative connotation.”

When AP attempted to reach Keys last week about the Blender interview, her publicist, Theola Borden, said the singer was on vacation and unavailable for comment.

The multiplatinum star behind the hits “Fallin’” and “No One” most recently had success with her latest CD, “As I Am,” which has sold 3.4 million copies, according to Nielsen Soundscan.

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Alicia in Blender Magazine May 2008.

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Singer/songwriter Alicia Keys has publicly congratulated rapper Jay-Z and his new wife Beyonce Knowles, who were married in a top-secret ceremony last week.

Although the couple’s representatives have yet to confirm the wedding took place, it has been reported Jay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, and Knowles exchanged vows on Friday evening and then threw a lavish party at the rapper’s TriBeCa apartment in New York.

And Keys couldn’t be happier for the newlyweds.

She tells OK! magazine, “All the best wishes possible, and I think that love is beautiful and when you love somebody, just let it shine and shine bright.”

Keys is the second star to extend warm wishes to the couple. Mary J. Blige offered her congratulations to Jay-Z, her current tourmate, at a concert on Saturday, before launching into her hit song “You’re All I Need.”

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Alicia Keys Photos From The Forum Arena in Milan.

Alicia Keys is absolutely stunning on April’s German Cosmopolitan issue. It’s a beautiful spring and sunny image, and the outfit is fabulous! The ‘No One’ singer is currently in Germany on the European leg of her world tour.

Alicia Keys (born Alicia J. Augello-Cook on January 25, 1980 or 1981) is an American R&B, soul, and neo soul singer-songwriter, pianist, record producer, actress, music video director, philanthropist, and author who has sold over forty-one million albums and singles worldwide as of 2007, and has won numerous awards, including eleven Grammy Awards, eleven Billboard Music Awards, three American Music Awards, and fourteen NAACP Image Awards.

Keys was born in the Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem, in New York City, New York, to Teresa “Terri” Augello, a paralegal and part-time actress, and Craig Cook, a flight attendant. Keys’ mother is of Irish, Scottish, and Italian descent and her father is Jamaican.
Keys’ parents separated during her early childhood, and she was subsequently raised by her mother during her formative years in Hell’s Kitchen, also in Manhattan. In 1985, Keys and a group of other girls played the parts of Rudy Huxtable’s sleepover guests in an episode of The Cosby Show called “Slumber Party”. She began playing the piano when she was seven, learning classical music by composers such as Beethoven, Mozart, and her favorite, Chopin.
Keys graduated from the Professional Performing Arts School, a prestigious high school in Manhattan, as valedictorian at the age of sixteen in only three years. Although accepted to Columbia University, she decided to drop out and pursue her musical career. Keys signed a demo deal with Jermaine Dupri and his So So Def label, then distributed by Columbia Records. She co-wrote and recorded a song entitled “Dah Dee Dah (Sexy Thing)”, which appeared on the soundtrack to the 1997 blockbuster, Men in Black. The song was Keys’ first professional recording; however, it was never released as a single and her record contract with Columbia Records ended quickly. Keys later met Clive Davis, who signed her to Arista Records, which has since disbanded. Following Davis to his newly-formed J Records label, she recorded the songs “Rock wit U” and “Rear View Mirror”, featured on the soundtracks to the films Shaft (2000) and Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001) respectively. Keys then released her debut album, Songs in A Minor.
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Alicia Keys has admitted to suffering from depression.
The “No One” singer revealed her tendency to bottle up her feelings leads to her feeling low and angry.
She said, “I was feeling so sad all the time, and I couldn’t shake it. I started burying my feelings, and it got to a point where I couldn’t even tell my family or my friends, ‘I’m twisted,’ or ‘I’m exhausted,’ or ‘I’m so angry.’ I became a master of putting up the wall so that I was unreadable.”
Alicia has now got through that tough time and is enjoying life with producer boyfriend Kerry ‘Krucial‘ Brothers.
She said, “I definitely found my partner. I know he is somebody who will always be special to me and that we’re always going to be in each other’s lives.”
Alicia admits she finds it hard to open up at the beginning of a new relationship.
She added to Giant magazine, “It’s my nature to let them show me who they are first before I show them who I am. But once I’m in love with somebody, I’m the best girlfriend you could ever have.”

Looks like Janet Jackson’s dream of playing music legend Lena Horne is officially dead, because Oprah Winfrey has taken control of the project and cast Alicia Keys in the title role. During an interview for her new film, The Great Debaters, Oprah revealed that while she’s never going to act again, she’s taken to producing like a billionaire fish to water. “We’re going to start filming next year,” Oprah said of her Lena Horne biopic. “And we’ve got Alicia.”

Now, unless she’s talking about one-time Batgirl Alicia Silverstone (please, no), it’s pretty much a given that the Grammy winner nabbed the role. Especially when you consider that Oprah told Alicia in 2005 that she would love for the 27-year-old to slip into the legendary singer’s shoes.

The casting makes perfect sense since Lena and Alicia share more than a passing resemblance. Both were born in New York, both conquered the music industry quickly and both share a passion for philanthropy. Alicia is a spokesperson for several AIDS organizations, while Lena (below) dedicated her life to the civil rights movement.

Lena has been heavily involved in the casting of her life story since she famously asked for Janet Jackson to remove herself from the project (when it was set up as a TV movie at ABC) following her wardrobe malfunction at the Super Bowl. What an honor for Alicia: to not only have the blessing of the powerful Oprah, but the legendary lady as well.

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Alicia Keys is one of the few people on this planet that doesn’t completely annoy me. I wouldn’t say I’m a fan, but I enjoy what she’s giving me. I always figured Alicia for a poon diver, but she’s denying that shit. The denial!

She’s sick of the gay rumors and claims she has a boyfriend. When asked if she was lesbionic, she said, “I’m as straight as they come.”

Yeah, me too. I’m straight. Straight-up HOMO.

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