Alicia Keys and her mother Terri Augello were among the millions who stood in the crowd to witness President Barack Obama take the oath during his swearing-in ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Alicia is scheduled to perform at tonight’s Neighborhood Ball.

Alicia Keys Attends President Barack Obama’s Inauguration in Washington

Alicia Keys was spotted taking it easy, and looking quite sexy during a poolside relaxation time.
She spent the afternoon chowing down on snacks and chilling out by the pool at her hotel in Perth, Australia, sporting a super-hot black bikini.

Alicia Keys - Bikini Candids - Perth Australia

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Alicia Keys, who led the field with five nominations, took home two AMAs for Favorite Album in the Soul-R&B and Pop-Rock categories.

She capped the awards show singing her hit “Superwoman” from her triple-platinum selling album “As I Am.”

Alicia Keys @ 2008 American Music Awards - Arrivals, Los Angeles

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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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Oheka Castle

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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