Tonight, BET aired the 2012 Black Girls Rock event from NYC and it featured a flurry of performances from some of urban music's most iconic names right now - Alicia Keys (performing "New Day" & "Girl On Fire" above), Brandy ("Wildest Dreams"), Ciara & Missy Elliott ("One Woman Army", "Sorry", "1, 2 Step", "9th Inning"), and Keyshia Cole ("Trust & Believe"). Also performing was India.Arie & Eric Benet, Anthony Hamilton, and Luke James - and you can catch those performances via Yardie here.
Alicia Keys can definitely pull off the short hair. She looks strikingly beautiful on the cover of the new Billboard Magazine about to hit newsstands this month to coincide with her new album, Girl On Fire. Catch Alicia on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight as well (or go out, it's Friday, and come back tomorrow where we'll definitely have the videos up in case you miss it. :D)
It’s a lot of things you can never bring into question with Beyoncé, and one of them is who she chooses to collaborate with. Queen Creole and Light Bearer Beyoncé is currently working on her fifth studio album. She has already been in the studio with Hit-Boy, The-Dream, Missy Elliott, and now Miguel.
The raising singer-songwriter, who recently collaborated with Alicia Keys on Kaleidoscope Dream track, 'Where’s The Fun In Forever,' links up with the one and only King B. A few hours ago Miguel uploaded the photo above to his Instagram with the caption “…woah. creating for virgo’s all weekend,” but this was later deleted.
There are currently not any details on whose project this will be for, but the likely hood is it’s for Beyoncé. Whatever was the finishing product of this studio session on sure I will play it the hell out love it! Wouldn’t you just die if Beyoncé debuted this Miguel associated track during the Super Bowl? She’s already the headliner of the halftime show, so why not? All I know is this album will deliver life.
TIBS UPDATE: iTunes released the official tracklist today which contains 2 additional features. Nicki Minaj on the "Girl On Fire (Inferno Version)" and Maxwell on "Fire We Make".
10.20.12: After dropping her he video "Girl On Fire", Alicia Keys keeps the promotion campaign going with an official release of the track list. Girl On Fire consists of thirteen songs and the album will be dropping on November 27th. Judging from the track list this album will be feature free, but I would like to know who produced what.
Alicia Keys has created an interactive storytelling app for kids featuring a journal to write in, tracks produced by Keys' herself, and of course, a chance for children to play the piano. The creative app, available for $3.99, was not only inspired by her Grandmother who Keys is extremely close to, but her son Egypt as well. It seems like the family life Alicia worked so hard to build has treated her well. The talented songstress's 5th studio album Girl On Fire is scheduled for a November 27th release.
