If your into this sort of thing, compare the life of Alicia and the life of Lauryn Hill,
Alicia was lucky to have been guided by some well meaning veterans of the music world, and Lauryn was attracted to radicalized activists who gave her really bad advice.
Hill is now going to jail for tax fraud.
Keys is set for another few record contracts.
Grew up 20 miles apart
both young tv actresses
both came out of h.s. as musical phenoms
both accepted to same music program at Columbia U, both dropped out in first year
both got shafted by first record label.
both spent their nights playing at same bars in Greenwich Village,
A local kid in my area was on one of those vocalist talent tv shows recently, these two were used as examples on the various paths he can take going forward.
You and pretty much everyone else on this thread are out of your mind. Here’s the twit singing to her hero, Barack.
Alicia Keys: Obama’s on fire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5ob1FJVg6I&noredirect=1
Also...at least Hill has gone out of her way to call the music industry a cesspool which is exactly what it is. And her music is 10x more original than your hero who thinks that:
“He’s the president and he’s on fire”! Are you singing Jersey? Can’t hear you!