Alicia Keys is 31.
Dean Jones is 81.
Claude Gray is 80.
Leigh Taylor-Young is 67.
Jenifer Lewis is 55.
Dinah Manoff is 54.
Mike Burch of River Road is 46.
Singer Kina (Brownstone) is 43.
Ana Ortiz (“Ugly Betty”) is 41.
Matt Odmark of Jars of Clay is 38.
Michael Trevino (“The Vampire Diaries”) is 27.
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“I had to decide if I was going to do the right thing or the wrong thing. Take drugs or not take drugs, or end up getting in the wrong scenario. So many people I knew ended up in jail. How did I avoid it? I had a really tough mama.”
Alicia Keys, on being raised in Hell’s Kitchen, a notoriously rough part of the city
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“We didn’t start seeing each other until months after they had separated. I was aware of all the false things that were being said about me and it definitely hurt. I was sure that if I engaged it would become back-and-forth like some sick entertainment, which goes against everything I believe and would have made things worse.”
Alicia Keys, on not being a homewrecker
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Not sure if you all heard about the controversial comments Alicia Keys made in an interview with Blender magazine. If you haven’t yet heard, you have been living under a rock.
To summarize for all you under-rock residers, Alicia was quoted saying that Gangsta rap was â€a ploy to convince black people to kill each other,” and that the mainstream media, the record industry and those in power allowed it to flourish. Alicia has since defended her comments, however, 50 Cent wasn’t hearing ANY OF IT!Â
50 Cent told Rhapsody, “I don’t like Alicia Keys no more.â€Â Bam! You hear that?
And from the sounds of it, he isn’t a fan of Alicia’s music either. “I don’t think that [her] classical s–t is cool. I don’t give a f–k if you can classically play the piano. I haven’t been classically trained, because my upbringing, nobody put me in front of a piano at that time…I could f–king care less about the s–t. So she don’t like the music that embodies the harsh realities because they’re not her realities. She hasn’t been subjected to the same things.”
Wowsers!
I’m thinking there will be no duets or future collabo between 50 and Alicia.
Maybe when pigs fly!
Sources say that Miss Alicia Keys and her longtime lover and producer Kerry “Krucial” Brothers may make it official on July 4th of this year!
According to the source, Alicia and Kerry have booked their wedding festivities that Friday and Saturday at New York’s Oheka Castle. Good for them!
This morning, Alicia kicked off the Today Show’s Summer Concert Series in New York City.
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