Alicia looked amazing at the 4th Annual Black Ball, held in New York not long ago — pictures have been added to the gallery. Click the image below to access the entire set.

Alicia performed her new single No One on Saturday Night Divas in the UK earlier this month, and she did a fantastic job! Check out the performance below:

Pictures from the Heineken Red Star Soul in New York have been added to the gallery — click the image below to access the entire set.

Alicia attended this year’s Swarovski Fashion Rocks in London — you can see pictures from the red carpet and the Gift Lounge by clicking the graphics below.

Some pictures from Alicia’s spread in Complex Magazine have been added to the gallery — along with some gorgeous pictures from the Madrid As I Am Showcase, she did recently. Click the images below to access all the pictures.

As I Am showcase in Madrid [2007]

Complex Magazine [2007]

Alicia Keys can understand why she was labelled a lesbian at the beginning of her career - because she was “rough around the ages”.

The singer’s sexuality was the subject of much speculation after the release of her 2001 debut album Songs In A Minor.

Keys is adamant she isn’t gay but realises her appearance and attitude may have led people to draw their own conclusions.

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Alicia was almost destroyed by her ‘relentless’ drive to succeed - and was only saved by her grandmother’s battle with cancer. Miss Keys spent years neglecting her personal life and her family in a desperate attempt to stay on top of the notoriously tough music industry.

But it was only when her paternal grandmother became cripplingly ill with cancer last year (06) that the 27-year-old forced herself to slow down. Speaking of the troubled time, Keys says, “That’s exactly what it was. That’s why I had to totally, completely stop. I’m used to constantly going on to the next thing, but I realized at that moment, ‘Man, this is it, this is all I have.’”

The Independent interview with Alicia:

I’m waiting to pray with Alicia Keys. The singer-songwriter and multimedia entrepreneur is not praying that her new album is well received. Keys, 27, has been so stonkingly successful at everything she has turned her hand to – music and beyond – that no celestial intervention will be required to kick-start the campaign for As I Am. She has sold more than 20 million copies of the album’s two predecessors, 2001’s Songs In A Minor and 2003’s The Diary Of Alicia Keys, and won a boatload of industry awards, including nine Grammys. Keys songs such as “Fallin’” and “A Woman’s Worth”, supreme examples of genre-transcending nu-soul and R&B, are modern standards.

She was impressive, too, in her debut film role, playing a hitwoman in Smokin’ Aces, a thriller released earlier this year; she underlines her range in this month’s The Nanny Diaries, a feel-good family movie in which she appears alongside Scarlett Johansson. She has published a book of her own poetry, and she and her manager have launched a production company in partnership with Disney (Big Pita, Little Pita, which stands for “Big Pain In The Ass, Little Pain In The Ass”); they will develop family-oriented movies and TV series, some of them vehicles for Keys.

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Alicia Keys demonstrated only dignity when she turned up on the red carpet at the Recording Academy New York Chapter honors.

Alicia’s new album, As I Am, is released the same date as Britney Spears’ as yet untitled album - on November 13.

But Alicia, who wore a fetching white blouse, figure-hugging black trousers and black gloves, admits that she’s not worried in the slightest about the competition, saying: “Absolutely not. For the new album, you can expect the unexpected. You won’t believe your ears, I promise you.”

The 27-year-old also showed no dislike for the troubled popstar, adding: “I hope she’ll come back.”

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