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The Grammy winning RnB Diva was finally in Hong Kong! The mega debut ‘Fallin’’ made Alicia Keys the hottest singer-songwriter of her time. Seeing how she pushed the limits in ‘Diary Of Alicia Keys’, she is proving that she does not just sit in front of the piano and sing, she can dance, she can hype the crowd, she can do it all! As we here in Hong Kong have been catching up on her latest rumored romance with Usher, we bring you back to how she writes her diary and who she really is.
Alyson: Alicia, Alicia! You have no idea of how long I’ve been waiting for this moment, to see you in person!
Alicia: Thank you! Me too!
Alyson: You’re magnificent out there at the show. And I know that you were in Beijing, China, performing at the Great Wall… so how has the whole China, including Hong Kong, experience been?
Alicia: It’s unreal! And when I say it’s unreal, it’s really unreal! I just look around and I just can’t believe I’m here! I wake up in the morning and I look out the window, and I can’t believe I’m here, I’m like, “What are you doing here, Alicia? How did you get here? How did this happen??” So I just feel very excited and I feel really happy, and proud, and just to experience… first hand… places that I’ve only dreamed about, or heard about or read about, or learned about through other people’s words… to see it from my own eyes, it’s really really special, so I love it. I’m really happy.
Alyson: So did you get the learn any Chinese?
Alicia: They try to… (LOL) They try to make me say… they try to get me to say a couple of words! So far I only know “Ni Hao!” (“Hello” in Mandarin). Well I’m not so good at “Thank You”, I keep messing it up! “Sin sin”? “Sie Sie”!! (LOL) But when they get me in a room, and had me do these Ids for television, they’ll have me say it. I think I’m alright, I’m pretty good, if someone else says it first, I do pretty well. I’m gonna learn more though!
Was the Phil Collins song before the show intentional?
Alicia: Very intentional! Infact, when we were first starting the tour back in America, there was a… you know sometimes you run into funny energies… when you’re meeting the people, and you know you’re walking into a brand new situation everyday. You have your own team, but sometimes, you run into some strange people so… We were touring in America, and there’s a funny… just a very BAD vibe, it was like really bad! And I started singing, “I can feel it, calling in the air…” I said we need that song! We need that song! I need to hear that song everyday! I’ve been waiting for this moment all my life, and that all that matters, is this show, and nothing else! And that’s why I play that song. And when I was in Europe, we did a show with Phil Collins. He was on after. And we asked him if it was okay if we play that song, and he said “Yes”. So it’s all good!
New materials on the way?
Alicia: Funny enough, today I was in my dressing room, and I was… I’ve been messing around with this melody for a while, but today was the day when I came up with the music for it. So I was in my room, playing the different ways that I wanted it to go. So I think I’m gonna go home and work on that tonight. So that all happened here. I’m glad that I bring my studio with me. I travel with it, and I set it up, and record, and put it away and then go to the next city!
While writing your new music…
Alicia: I was speaking to Stevie Wonder one day, it was before we got together and performed together on MTV Music Awards. It was so cool to speak to him because he’s been in this for so long, and to speak to somebody who has experience and had been there before, when I’m just learning and figuring it out, and he said to me, “Just take your time. Just live your life and take your time. You don’t have to rush.” And you forget! Coz there’s so much going on, and you just wanna try and get things going. We forget to just take your time. So that’s what I think is the best way.
You’re gonna do a movie soon! How’s that like?
Alicia: It’s a lot like music to me! Because it’s very… you try to find the most honest part of you, as related to what you’re trying to betray to people. And I feel like that’s what I wanna do. And I act the way that I… the same way that I wanna do in music, and really making emotion to come across. That’s definitely the same affect that I wanna have on film. That’s why I haven’t been rushing to do anything, I wanna take it slow, and when it’s right, it’s right. However long it takes. I want to be fantastic, and it will be.
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