SHE’S COMING! SHE’S COMING!
That was the word on Payne’s Bay beach yesterday morning when American rhythm and blues superstar Alicia Keys appeared for a photo-shoot.

Preceded by her towering six-foot, nine-inch bodyguard, “Carter”, and with her mum Terri by her side, the petite Barbados Jazz Festival headliner strolled across the sands and plopped into a hammock, one of the props.

A murmur of approval spread through the small welcoming crowd of hotel guests, passers-by and watersports operators who had gathered quickly.

Instantly, her carefully made-up face, framed by a freshly-plaited cornrow hairstyle, the 24-year-old Keys relaxed as she broke into an almost shy smile. She adjusted the body-hugging, bubble-gum pink top, checked the ankle-length rolled up cuffs on her blue jeans, and took a deep breath.

While the Times photo-shoot was business, it was also a rare moment of light-hearted relaxation for the singer. She spread her arms wide to steady herself in the swaying hammock and grinned.

“It’s beautiful here and we like it very much,” Terri Augello, Key’s mother and personal assistant, told the Saturday Sun in a brief interview.

Sloe-eyed beauty Alicia Keys was this photographer’s dream model as she posed patiently during an hour-long photo shoot yesterday morning on the picturesque Payne’s Bay Beach on the West Coast.

Source: Nationnews