Keep your ears open! Alicia Keys newest single, ‘Karma,’ is coming your way. Starting on October 25th, you will be able to hear this new track on radio airwaves everywhere.

On a newly released version of “The Diary of Alicia Keys (Limited Edition)” you can find a few remixes and slightly modified versions of the songs you loved on a Bonus CD! Here is a track fresh off the press! Have a listen below…

“If I Ain’t Got You (Spanish Version)” by Alicia Keys featuring Arturo Sandoval
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To Purchase visit Fnac.com, check your favorite music site, or local music retailers.

AOL for Broadband an Wal-Mart are teaming up to bring you an exclusive Alicia Keys event. On Friday, October 1st at 7:00PM (in all time zones), you and your family are invited to come see Alicia Keys in concert on AOL Broadband Rocks. Just visit any participating Wal-Mart location near you!

Alicia Keys will take part in an AIDS benefit concert in Toronto late this year. The “UrbanAIDS” concert will also feature Keshia Chante, K-OS, and Swollen Members. The show is scheduled for November 29, 2004 at the Ricoh Coliseum.

Here are a few pictures of Alicia’s performance in China.

We’re very happy to confirm that Alicia will definitely be still coming to NZ this year. There is one small change though - the concert will now take place on Monday 1 November. If you already hold a ticket for the original date, your seating allocation remains unchanged. Please don’t hesitate to contact the venue if you have any further queries.

http://www.frontiertouring.com.au

Due to logistical reasons the Alicia Keys Brisbane concert will move from Friday 29th October 2004 to Saturday 30th October 2004, playing the Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Lyric Theatre.

Patrons holding tickets for the original date will be contacted to transfer their tickets to the Saturday night performance. Tickets are now selling for the Saturday performance.

For further information please contact QTIX on 136 246.

Source: http://www.frontiertouring.com.au

It was a historic sort-of first on Saturday when Alicia Keys, Boyz II Men, Cyndi Lauper and Nellie McKay performed modern pop music beneath the shadow of the Great Wall of China, one of the marvels of the ancient world.

Though organizers promoted the concert as the first by foreign musicians at the wall, British DJ Paul Oakenfold performed there last year and released a live recording of the show, called Great Wall.

But none of that mattered to the more than 5,000 Chinese fans in attendance, many of whom held handmade signs and screamed loudly during the performances.

Despite the autumn chill in the air, the sprightly Lauper performed her set barefoot. Keys was a bit more subdued, taking a seat at her piano while wearing a leather jacket and a hat pulled low over her face.

“Thank you for having me at the Great Wall,” she said over the audience’s cheers, before launching into her eight-song set. And at a press conference earlier last week, she told the assembled international media just how much of an impression the ancient surroundings had made on her.

“Away from America, things are so much more historic. I am very inspired by my surroundings, and being on tour gives me that opportunity,” she said. “To see the people, the faces, the culture … the song of it, the sound of it is very exciting. From Amsterdam to China, I’m inspired by being there.”

“There are good walls and there are bad walls,” added Lauper. “I played at the Berlin Wall and I saw that wall come down, and I was very joyful to be able to play there.”

Called the Wall of Hope - China 2004, the concert was held to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Great Wall restoration project. It was also the first in a series of benefits planned for the Chinese cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Proceeds from the concerts will go to the China Children and Teenagers’ Fund.

Source: mtv.com.

“It’s important for all of us to be aware of what’s going on. I know it hurts to pay attention. Sometimes you’re like, “I don’t want to think about this crap.” For young people, especially, it seems like politicians aren’t speaking about our lives. But Kerry is passionate, and he’s trying to get young people to pay attention, so that’s pretty cool. He understands that we need to do more to improve education. So many dollars have been taken out of the schools under Bush, and they just get worse and worse.

To me, Bush comes off like a person reading a script. I thought his response to September 11th was very insincere. The entire time, he seemed disconnected, like he didn’t experience the same thing the rest of us experienced. He rushed into the war in Iraq abruptly, like a boy playing with a truck: “This is my truck! You stepped on it, so I’m throwing your truck out the window!” It wasn’t handled the way a real adult would handle a situation.”

Source: rollingstone.com.

Sep 23, 2004 04:13 PM

Oh yea, one more thing

I LOVED the book! It is beautiful and soooo kind of all of you to send such warmth out here to me on this cold road.;-) Ya’ll are so thoughtful and the way the book is put together is sooo creative. ( I love the cover!)
There’s no one like you!
thank you

love,
Ak

Sep 23, 2004 04:00 PM

So here I am, half way across the world. I still can’t believe it! My body is toooooo confused. LOL! Right now it is 3:42 AM in China, 3:42 pm in New York, and 12:42 pm in L.A where I just was before coming to China so you can see why my body is looking at me like, “huh?”

It took us 12 hours to fly here. One of the longest flights I’ve ever taken. But some of my crew left from NY and that is a 16-hour flight. Wow! But I have to say, long flight or not, I am ecstatic about being here! About going to Malaysia and Indonesia, and Hong Kong, and Japan, and Australlia and New Zealand, and there’s more but I can’t think of them right now. But I’m just like, how does this happen? How does the music swim so far across so many oceans and so many cultures and so many languages? How does it bring us together like this in such a heavenly way? That’s why I KNOW GOD is in the music. There is no other explanation!

Today I went to this place called the Forbidden City, where the Ming Dynast Ruled. It’s incredible to go to these places and imagine what it was like in the days that they existed. These are whole huge places with beautiful designs and intention, Grandeur to the point of conceit. But this was a way of life, culture and tradition and belief like no other that lasted thousands and thousands of years. It’s amazing.
I close my eyes and try to picture life then

Tomorrow is the first trip I make to the Great Wall of China. I can’t wait to see it. Imagine all of those many hands building ONE wall! Can you imagine? All of those many people coming together to create that one, long, huge barrier, It’s unbelievable almost. Those are the things that make us more powerful than we ever think. Those are the things that show us the greatness of our collective unity. Those are the reasons we’re created in God’s likeness. We so so so special. And if you are ever unsure, think of this!

It is late here
I’m going to get some rest for
tomorrow.
Talk to you soon

Much respect
Ak, from the other side of the world