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ALL KEYED UP: Alicia Keys brings down the house ? and looks fabulous doing it, in a full-length shearling coat and snappy fedora ? as she performs on Good Morning America Live in New York City. The Grammy winner's new album, The Diary of Alicia Keys, will be released Dec. 2.

 

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Candid Keys Confronts Lesbian RumorsSTEPHEN M. SILVERMANpeople.comAlicia Keys is anything but shy. Addressing rumors that she may be a lesbian, the musician, whose new CD "Diary of Alicia Keys" was released on Tuesday, tells "Access Hollywood" that she's surprised that the story has such "legs.""It was just walking and kept walking," she says of the rumor, "and I said, 'Where are you going with this?'"She does deny being a lesbian ("I absolutely am not," she says), though does not deny being "a strong-minded woman," "not demure" and "aggressive," which may make some people "nervous," she says.As for how the rumor may have started in the first place, the 22-year-old daughter of a white actress and an African American flight attendant blames TV."I think what happens is any person that grazes any TV set is gay. I don't know what it is -- it's like you have to be gay to be on a TV show," she says.With equal candor, Keys, who grew up in Manhattan's roughhewn Hell's Kitchen, tells the German magazine Der Spiegel that she misses her old neighborhood, despite its being "full of derelicts, crazy people and pimps."And though she hasn't taken public transportation in more than a year (since the success of her first album, "Songs in A Minor"), she insists, "I actually miss the warm smell of urine and beer on the subway."

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ALICIA'S KEY PERFORMANCE: Alicia Keys puts her heart and soul into a song off her new album, The Diary of Alicia Keys, when she gives a concert in Madrid. Her sophomore album debuted at the top of the Billboard charts last week with 618,000 copies sold.

 

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ALICIA BANGS ON THE KEYS: Alicia Keys rehearses for the 46th Annual Grammy Awards, where she is scheduled to perform Sunday. The singer's new album, The Diary of Alicia Keys, was not released within the eligiblilty period to receive nominations this year; however, it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

 

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<img src='http://i.timeinc.net/people/images/photo/celebsnaps/040308/popakeys.jpg' alt='Posted Image' class='bbc_img' /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>KEYING UP FOR FASHION: Alicia Keys, dressed sexily head-to toe in Roberto Cavalli, walks hand-in-hand with the designer to his show at Milan's Fashion Week. Cavalli will be designing the entire stage wardrobe for Keys's upcoming tour.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>(Nick Zonna-Masterphoto/LFI)</p><p>

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CANCELED: Alicia Keys and British violin act Bond have canceled concerts in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta after Thursday's deadly suicide attack on the Australian Embassy, AP reports. A spokesman for promoter Java Musikindo said Saturday that both acts were due to play Jakarta next month but have pulled out due to the bombing, which killed nine people and wounded more than 170.

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people.comSET: Alicia Keys, 24, is set to rock China when she headlines an unprecedented "Wall of Hope" charity concert expected to bring 5,000 fans to the Great Wall on Saturday, reports Reuters. "It's so much more historical than America," the Grammy-winning R&B star told a news conference. "I am very much inspired by my surroundings." This first-ever Wall concert, which will raise money for the China Children's and Teenagers' Fund, will also feature Cyndi Lauper and Boyz II Men.

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EOnline.com HEADLINER: Alicia Keys set to headline the Barbados Jazz Festival in January. The festival will run from Jan. 10 to 16.

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Singer Alicia Keys signs copies of her new book, Tears for Water: Songbook of Poems & Lyrics, in New York City on Wednesday. "I was just writing what I was feeling, and it came out in those different forms," Keys says of the tome, released this week.

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EOnline.comA KEY SUBSTITUTION: MTV News reports that Alicia Keys will co-host Live With Regis and Kelly Dec. 22 while Kelly Ripa is on vacation.

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EOnline.com DEAR DIARY: Alicia Keys set to hit the road in a newly announced Diary Tour of 34 cities in support of her Grammy-nominated sophomore album, The Diary of Alicia Keys. Keys is also set to perform at the Grammys on Feb. 13, where she's nominated for eight awards.

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Keys in Tune with Grammys(Saturday, February 12 12:01 AM)By Jay BobbinZap2It.comEven if she only comes close to winning as many Grammys as she did the first time, Alicia Keys will have a great night.In 2002, the recording industry rewarded the singer-composer with five of the honors for her debut album, "Songs in A Minor." Voters clearly like her sophomore effort; "The Diary of Alicia Keys" has eight nominations in the 47th Annual Grammy Awards. CBS will broadcast the event Sunday, Feb. 13, from Staples Center in Los Angeles. Queen Latifah will serve as host for the first time, with Keys and fellow nominees U2, Tim McGraw and Green Day slated to perform.Kanye West leads the pack of nominees with 10 bids, and Keys is tied with Usher for eight; posthumously, Ray Charles is next with seven nominations."It's just incredible," Keys says. "I'm even more excited this time and incredibly grateful. The first time, it was overwhelming and I was just catching up to myself in a way. I was trying to figure out what was going on and what was coming next, because everything was so brand new to me. I'm also excited about being able to perform again this year, because that's my favorite thing to do."Keys will do much more of that on a two-month concert tour that starts Feb. 25 in Miami. She maintains awards are just the icing on the cake for her: "As I'm creating, I'm doing it from my life as it evolves. The last thing I was thinking of was outdoing 'Songs in A Minor,' so this is pretty exciting. The thing with me is that I know that I'm going to get better, so I just look forward to my future."All the greats I admire -- Ray Charles, Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Frank Sinatra -- weren't at their peak until they were in their 40s. Who knows what I'll be writing about 10 years from now?"If it matches the impact of "The Diary of Alicia Keys," the artist can anticipate another big Grammy year in another decade. Her current CD is up for album of the year and best R&B album, and Keys also is up for song of the year and best female R&B performance, both for "If I Ain't Got You." Additionally, she has two nominations each in the categories of best R&B song ("My Boo," with Usher, and "You Don't Know My Name") and best R&B performance by a duo or group with vocals ("Diary," with Tony! Toni! Tone! and "My Boo")."The Diary of Alicia Keys" is the product of some notable musical collaborations that Keys says have allowed her to "explore the different sides of myself. From performing with Stevie Wonder and Lenny Kravitz to doing a song with Usher, those are different sides of the spectrum, but I feel comfortable in them. I'm happy to challenge myself to become more than just me by myself."A songwriter since the age of 14, Keys is a strong proponent of the notion that things happen for a reason. "I look back to different things that have happened in my life, and at the time, I wondered why they happened and if things would ever change. I would feel sad, then fast-forward five or six years, and it all made sense. It all came together the way it was meant to, and I feel that way about this time right now."I feel very fulfilled, although I'm the kind of person who's always looking for ways to improve myself. There's so much more, and so many ways in which I can be growing, but the way that people respond to my music is probably the biggest reason I'm so grateful this year."As for any award wins she may soon enjoy, Keys reflects, "I don't get so caught up in the Grammy statue itself, but in what it represents, the fact that people can identify with my heart and my passion and my soul. It makes me feel very proud that I can be who I am and that people can 'get' that ... and that it makes them 'get' themselves as well."This year's Grammy ceremony also is notable as the final one to be produced by the man who brought the show to national TV in 1971: Pierre Cossette, who relocated the ceremony to CBS after original broadcaster ABC didn't want it to originate from Nashville one year."I'm slowing down a little bit," Cossette says, "and this is one way to accomplish that. I'm going to produce another Broadway musical [about folk singer Woody Guthrie], and that's going to take up a lot of my time. I've got great people here who are going to be taking over for me, and this just seemed like the time to do it."

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people.comHONORED: Alicia Keys, 24, will receive the Starlight Award, which honors gifted songwriters in the early years of their careers, at the 2005 Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards gala on June 9 at New York's Marriott Marquis Hotel. The National Academy of Popular Music/Songwriters Hall of Fame, founded in 1969, will also induct Steve Cropper, John Fogerty, Isaac Hayes and David Porter, Bill Withers and "Mary Poppins" and "It's a Small World" composers Richard and Robert Sherman.

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people.comAlicia Keys is learning that patience is a virtue now that she's gearing up for her movie debut. The Grammy winner will play piano prodigy Phillipa Schuyler (who died in 1967) in the upcoming biopic Composition in Black and White."Movies are never just 'poof!' and they're done," Keys told us at the 18th Annual ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards in Beverly Hills, where she was honored with a songwriter of the year award (along with Janet Jackson's main man, Jermaine Dupri). "It takes a lot of time. Right now we're finalizing the script, making sure we're really capturing all the directions of the story that we have to capture. We don't have a date for shooting yet."Keys is teaming up with Halle Berry, who's producing the movie. "I have script approval," Keys says. "Miss Halle Berry and the whole team were adamant about us all being happy with the story we're telling."Meanwhile, the singer-pianist isn't abandoning her music career: She'll record an MTV Unplugged album July 13 in New York City, to be released in October.

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(NYDailynews.com)Keys opens her heartAlicia Keys is heading to Africa to support Keep a Child Alive, which supplies medicine to children and their families living with HIV and AIDS."I'm going to Kenya, Rwanda and South Africa on Dec. 26," she told me at Cain nightclub on Thursday."There are a lot of organizations that focus on prevention, and that is good, but there are an immense amount of people who are dying who cannot receive the medication they need," she explained.Keys appealed to her fans to help if they can."[KCA] is not this big, huge bureaucratic organization with lots of red tape - it's like a FedEx, that's what I like to call it. We get the money from generous people like you and I, and we FedEx it, and you know it is going to get there," she said. "The donations are not paying for the lights and the phone bill [of the charity], it's going to the people."Keys will host a gala fund-raiser, the Black Ball, to benefit the charity in November.

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Alicia Keys puts the squeeze on mom Terri Augello at a New York City party on Monday for her new interactive website krucialkeys.com, which she launched with creative (and real-life) partner Kerry "Krucial" Brothers.

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NY Daily NewsWe bring troubling news for execs at J Records: Your superstar Alicia Keys may be leaving you. The R&B goddess wants to release her music through the Internet - even as longtime corporate foe Prince has allowed Universal to market his songs. Self-distribution is "definitely the wave of the future," Keys told us at the launch of her Web site, www.krucialkeys.com. "You can maintain control, you don't have to sacrifice the quality of music that you do." Keys, who helms her new venture with boyfriend Kerry (Krucial) Brothers, says they've learned to work together because "there are no egos involved ... no disagreements that can't be resolved in five minutes."

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Cindy Adams, 8.14.06:ANYONE know Alicia Keys held her guy off for sex for a year? She told Sister 2 Sister magazine's Jamie Foster Brown, who told me to tell you: "I made him wait a year because my body is too beautiful to be violated by someone who doesn't deserve it." OK?

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Why are you with him if he didn't deserve your body?? (I bet he still hasn't gotten any) Come on Alicia admit it, "HE IS JUST YOUR MERKIN!".

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Alicia Keys enjoy the sights in Florence, Italy, on Wednesday. Before her vacation, though, she was hard at work, contributing the song, "Almost Everything Is Boinga Here," and voicing an alien character for the animated show The Backyardigans, airing on Nick Jr. Oct. 9.

 

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Alicia Keys spreads the sound of music for a good cause in Los Angeles on Thursday, where she performed at a UCLA Medical Center fundraiser.

 

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October 17. MediaTakeOut.com has just learned that Alicia Keys may have been arrested. An anonymous tipster tells us that Keys was arrested for a domestic disturbance involving another woman. We haven't yet confirmed the story, but the photos (below) suggest that Keys did have a run in with the law...

 

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After her publicist works their 'magic' we'll be informed it wasn't her or these photos aren't real!!!

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Alicia Keys has publicly applauded old pal Beyonce for her Golden Globe Best Actress nomination-because she feels the singer/actress could herald a new era of "triple-threat" stars. Keys, who is embarking on her own movie career, admits she grew up idolizing stars who had singing, theatrical and movie careers. She says, "I can't wait to see Beyonce in "Dreamgirls."

From the beginning of time, many of the great artists were always triple threats. They all acted, sang and danced, they did it all. "I think, going back in that direction now, and to be able to encompass so many styles, and do it with so much class, is fantastic. "I've known Beyonce for a while.

 

We did meet each other when we were on Columbia (record label), where they did retreats and they would show the different artists who were coming out. "We got a chance to hang out then. I think we feel the same way about being able to express ourselves. She's a great lady."

 

 

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Alicia Keys is still stunned about Bob Dylan name checking her in one of the songs on his acclaimed new album, “Modern Times,” and she’s still struggling trying to figure out, why her.

Dylan mentions Keys on the song “Thunder On The Mountain,” and she has been in musical heaven ever since. She explains, “I could not believe it. The first person who told me about it was John Mayer. He said, ‘You’re never gonna believe this but I just heard that Dylan has your name in his song.’ “I was totally not expecting it but then I couldn’t wait to hear it because it wasn’t coming out for a while.

‘It’s such a big honor because Dylan’s such a lyrical genius and storyteller with so much history. As a writer myself, I admire him. I thanked him greatly.”

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