Alicia is doing all right for herself - and part of the reason is that she's an American. I wish she could see it that way.
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.
Alicia is doing all right for herself - and part of the reason is that she's an American. I wish she could see it that way.
Yep. Now you can tell when her mom is managing her affairs and when she's all on her own in interviews. I suppose this is similar to how I have to dress down and be mean so some of my clients can be feel more comfortable about buying stuff from me. She's so beautiful, it's a complete waste with the kind of crowd she hangs out with :(
Indeed, she's not one of those no-talents who draws attention by skanking it up on stage. She's got a great voice and is a talented writer.
LOL!
That is very generous of you. LOL
She's so beautiful. I wish she could talk right.
Is she really hood or does she just play it up.
She's on the cover of Lucky....looking like a cafe au lait WASP...lol
She is fine....I wish she were un-hood.
Just saw Lucky and I AGREE *lol*
Much like Halle Berry, she was abandoned by her black father and raised in a near-totally white environment by her white mother, and feels the need to Mau-Mau the world to compensate.
I don't know enough about her to say, but I would tend toward the latter.
lol...
With all the advantages she enjoys in life (beauty, talent, money, freedom), she still seems to consider herself some kind of victim. I find that sad. (Though as you suggested, maybe it's just what she thinks she needs to do to find acceptance by her peers.)
My neice's father is black. No one would ever mistake my neice for a white girl; she is about Alicia Keys' age. If you ask her whether she has experienced much racial prejudice in her life, she would flatly tell you she hasn't. Maybe if she has, she hasn't noticed, because she just isn't focused on it. She is friendly, outgoing, and smart, and she's got plans for a successful future. I am encouraged by her outlook in life, and I know she's going to do very well.
I'm also kind of amazed that an Alicia Keys could have complaints.
I agree, let's lean towards the glass half full.
actually...that last post...strike that. pretending to be a gangsta gal is worse really than being born into it.
This sounds weird and I should correct it - my niece is half white, so I suppose on some level she is a "white girl", but no one would assume that without knowing anything about her.
I strongly agree with that. People need to start telling minority kids they CAN, not "You can't." Minority kids need to start believing it. (I think a lot of them do.)
At least a wardrobe malfunction from her wouldn't be followed by nausea and need for intenstive therapy.
just telling you what i read
make of it what you will
have a good one
Indeed. That comment still boils my blood. What an ungrateful wretch Ms. Keys is. I was interested in her music enough to get her debut album but she made that comment and now I wouldn't spit on her if she were on fire.
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