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Kanye West, Chris Brown Snag BET Awards | Chris Brown, Kanye West

Kanye West, Chris Brown Snag BET Awards

Originally posted 06/25/2008 10:00AM

Kanye West, Chris Brown and Alicia Keys were big winners at Tuesday's Black Entertainment Television Awards in Los Angeles.

West came out a double winner, snagging awards for both best male hip hop artist and best collaboration for his single "Good Life," sharing the award with rapper-producer T-Pain.

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Alicia Keys Says She'll 'Think About' Adoption

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Alicia Keys Says She'll 'Think About' Adoption

Originally posted 06/13/2008 12:45PM

Alicia Keys has motherhood on her mind.

"I think that [adoption] is truly important to consider," the Grammy-winning singer, 28, told PEOPLE Thursday night at a Manhattan screening of the documentary We Are Together, about the children of Agape Orphanage in South Africa.

Although she's "not ready to be a mom" just yet, Keys – who co-founded the foundation Keep A Child Alive, promoting HIV/AIDS-awareness and which helps support Agape – says adoption is a future possibility once she's in the "mother stage" of her life.

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Alicia Keys 'Open to Trying New Things' | Alicia Keys

Alicia Keys 'Open to Trying New Things'

Originally posted 05/30/2008 04:00PM

Alicia Keys can be a lot of things: Delicate, rough, bohemian, glamorous. And the singer says she's loving them all.

"I think at one time I was so bent on being just one way that I didn't allow myself to explore the many ways I can be or express myself," Keys, 28, tells the June issue of Seventeen magazine. "I've learned to embrace the many sides of myself. And there are so many sides to who I am."

The Grammy-winning artist, who has openly discussed her battle with depression, now says she is opening up to the world.

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Britney Relaxes at Alicia Keys Concert in L.A. | Alicia Keys, Britney Spears

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Britney Relaxes at Alicia Keys Concert in L.A.

Originally posted 05/06/2008 10:50AM

Britney Spears blew off a little pre-courtroom steam Monday at the Alicia Keys concert.

Expected to attend a Tuesday progress review hearing in Los Angeles family court with her ex, Kevin Federline, Spears decided to have a little fun first.

The singer arrived at the Staples Center at 8:30 p.m. with mom Lynne, her assistant, and two bodyguards and parked in an underground VIP parking lot to avoid photographers. There was no sign of sister Jamie Lynn Spears, who just celebrated her baby shower with her big sis in Kentwood, La., last weekend.

Spears – who according to one onlooker looked pretty and seemed psyched to be there – missed the opening act, Ne-Yo, but got there in time to clap when Keys took the stage and to get up and bop to the tunes.

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Alicia Keys Returns to Concert Stage

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Alicia Keys Returns to Concert Stage

Originally posted 04/27/2008 03:45PM

Having been waylaid by swollen vocal cords that forced the cancellation of some concert dates, Alicia Keys is back in form, ready to appear at St. Louis's Scottrade Center Sunday night.

Earlier this month, before her throat condition flared up, the singer, 27, spoke to PEOPLE while hot on the heels of having wrapped up the European leg of her "Lexus Presents the Alicia Keys As I Am" tour – which she called "one of the biggest tours that I have ever done, and to see the reaction from the people was great."

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Alicia Keys's 'Vocal Illness' Forces Concert Cancellations

Alicia Keys's 'Vocal Illness' Forces Concert Cancellations

Originally posted 04/24/2008 10:10AM

Alicia Keys has been forced to pull the plug on a second concert – Thursday night at Cleveland's Wolstein Center – "due to a continued bout with swollen vocal chords," her record label, J Records, announced late Wednesday.

Earlier in the week, Keys, 27, canceled a Tuesday night concert in Pittsburgh. But the native New Yorker is slated to return to the stage this weekend in Ohio. "Keys, who is currently being treated by a physician, is expected to return to the stage on Saturday ... in Columbus," said J Records, which described the setback as a "vocal illness."

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Alicia Keys Clarifies Her Rapper Conspiracy Remarks | Alicia Keys

Alicia Keys Clarifies Her Rapper Conspiracy Remarks

Originally posted 04/15/2008 02:10PM

Alicia Keys is clearing the air on her statements that gangster rap was a government "ploy to convince black people to kill each other" and that the government and media were responsible for the drama between slain rappers Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.

Keys, 27, told Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM show Tuesday she was "misinterpreted" and clarified her remarks to Blender magazine.

"The term 'gangsa rap' was so over-sloganized during that time," she said, "and in so many ways everyday people as well as the government could have really done so much more to obliterate and eradicate the things that were going on in the community at that time that forced the artists to discuss and talk so strongly what they saw- what they lived with every day."

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Alicia Keys Discovering Her 'Sexual Side' | Alicia Keys

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Alicia Keys Discovering Her 'Sexual Side'

Originally posted 04/11/2008 01:10PM

Get ready for the sexier side of Alicia Keys – starting with this cover and interview in the May issue of Blender magazine (hitting stands April 15). The usually ladylike singer says she's ready to reveal another side her fans rarely get to see. "I'm discovering my sexual side," says the Grammy winner, 28, adding that she recently recorded "my most sexual song yet ... I recorded this song – it's super simple: just piano, Rhodes keyboard and a kick drum. It's so sensual. It moves you."

But is the world ready for this new Alicia? Keys's manager Jeff Robinson – not so much. When the singer first played the song for him he reacted "like a squirmy dad" and jumped out of his seat before the song ended, saying, "We do not record songs like this!"

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Stars Flock to Grammy Pre-Parties | Carrie Underwood, Fergie

Stars Flock to Grammy Pre-Parties

Originally posted 02/10/2008 02:45PM

With the 2008 Grammys on Sunday, the stars began to party early, hitting a bevy of Hollywood hotspots and events on Friday and Saturday.

At Friday's PEOPLE/Verizon Wireless kickoff party, Pink, dressed in a top hat, smoked cigarettes and drank cocktails with girlfriends while best new artist nominee Taylor Swift performed. Fergie worked the red carpet in pin stripes, while Miley Cyrus, dressed in red and white, joked to PEOPLE that her dad said her dress looked, "like a Valentine!"

Inside, Lindsay Lohan hung out with Travis Barker before getting introduced to Cyrus. The former teen queen and the reigning teen queen chatted, giggled and snapped pictures in the VIP balcony. Below fans screamed "I love you," to the Hannah Montana star.

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Alicia Keys, Brad Paisley to Perform at Grammys | Alicia Keys

Alicia Keys, Brad Paisley to Perform at Grammys

Originally posted 01/31/2008 01:45PM

Beyoncé will be in good company come Grammy night. PEOPLE has already confirmed that the pop star will duet with Tina Turner – and now the Recording Academy says that Alicia Keys will also perform on the Feb. 10 telecast.

Other new additions to the performing roster include: country crooner Brad Paisley, best new artist nominee Feist and the casts of "The Beatles LOVE by Cirque du Soleil" and Across The Universe, who will offer a special Beatles tribute.

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