Posted on 01/14/2005 6:10:30 PM PST by Borges
NEW YORK - Alicia Keys will sing "America the Beautiful" prior to this year's Super Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla. It will be just the third time the song is sung at the Super Bowl — previously performed only by Vicki Carr and Ray Charles. Accompanying Keys will be 150 students from the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, which Charles attended as a youth in 1937.
"I'm very excited to be playing at the Super Bowl for the first time especially because I will be singing a song made famous by an artist I admire, miss and respect, Ray Charles, along with the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind," said Keys in a statement released Thursday. "I know that this is going to be a very touching and memorable moment."
The game's halftime show will feature a performance by Paul McCartney. Last year's mid-game celebration with Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake produced widespread controversy after Jackson's breast was exposed.
This year's game, Super Bowl XXXIX, takes place Feb. 6 at Alltel Stadium in Jacksonville.
Earlier this week, Keys, 23, announced a tour of 34 U.S. cities that will kick off in South Carolina on Feb. 25. The R&B singer and piano player is currently nominated for eight Grammys.
Second hottest chick ever named Alicia.
Where's the proof she said that? Her mother is white and I've never read any such thing. If that's true, I'd be really surprised.
Couple of years ago there was a newsweek commentator, black writer possibly conservative but not sure, wrote an article about MLKs dream and how current blacks dont seem to want what others have struggled so hard to achieve. He listed Alicia Keyes and quoted her something along the lines i have written. ALso mentioned others Harry Belafonte and his Uncle Tom cracks with Condi and Powell. Article made me POed and Keyes stuck in my mind because i had no idea she was part black until i read that article.
I don't know who Alicia Keys is, but I'm glad the folks from the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind will be involved. The school is in St. Augustine - it's a great place with a beautiful campus. It's a residential school, and does an enormous amount to help the many young people who pass through it. The left managed to kill most schools for people with handicaps (by "mainstreaming" them), but somehow we hung on down here in Florida. And I think the tide is turning, and the Florida model is going to emerge once again. And a little publicity couldn't hurt...
I'd be really surprised and disappointed. I don't know. I think she tries to be a little two faced to please certain people. It's a bit of a turn off personally but oh well. Harry Belafonte is so played out. Danny Glover too, worst of them all IMHO.
Alicia Keys was a childhood musical prodigy. She began playing piano at some absurdly young age and was touted by her music teachers as one of the best piano players to come out of Manhattan for many years. She also has quite a beautiful voice, writes her own music etc..etc..
In other words she does have alot of talent.
I have a deaf son who goes to the Florida School for the Deaf & Blind. It is giving my boy, and all the other students, the
best chance at success in life.I can't say enough positive things about that place. The left wingers here in our school system in Lee county Florida tried to mainstream him. He always felt like he was outside the mainstream, because he was "different". At FSDB he is just another student where the curriculum or teaching methods are geared to increase his chances for survival in the "hearing world"
Actually, I am very tired of naked Hollywood you know whats. Isn't there someone out there who can really sing without having to resort to being naked?
In other words; what happened to talent?
Can you say, "talent malfunction?"
America The Beautiful is a great American song, but it is not the National Anthem. The National Anthem is what should be sung at the Super Bowl.
The campus is in a beautiful area too! The Georgia School For the Deaf is in Cave Spring, Georgia, one of the pleasantest little towns in Georgia. The upside, is the school has been there for so long, (over 100 years) that the people in the town have adapted to the school and most of the citizens know at least rudimentary sign language. Many of the students settle in the town after they graduate since it is such a deaf friendly area. Several years ago, some of the bureaucrats in Atlanta wanted to move the school to suburban Atlanta which was a horrid idea. The kids are much better off out in the country where the crime is low and people think of them as their own.
If it's true that's most unfortunate. I just can't see her making a statement like that.
I remember that too. I actually think she's a very good musician - and she's obviously very young, successful and beautiful - so the "poor, disadvantaged me" (and the speaking in tunes) stuff is a real turn-off.
It's true. I'll try to find it for you. (And I agree, it's unfortunate - she is so cool otherwise.)
http://www.14alicia.com/Articles/5.php
This is the closest thing I could find. Alicia Keyes' mother couldn't watch her all the time. She's gets really trashy and ghetto around gangsta rappers just to prove how black she is. She's such a pretty girl and when she opens up her mouth, it's so sad. I read article in mainstream magazines and she says NONE of this BS. Oh well. Another 'shut up and play the piano' entertainer.
Why didn't I think of looking in FR first? LOL
I don't see anything in that interview where she says she hates this country though.
It's that bit about "the country that enslaved her" (the writer is responsible for that - but it seems to precede her remarks on the topic), then saying she can't be patriotic because of all those things...it offended a lot of people.
As far as I know, Alicia Keys is not currently, nor has she ever been, "enslaved". It just annoyed me.
I've read some of her interviews. It's a very bizarre form of fitting-in complex. You're not the only person annoyed *lol*
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