Keys has been a bit quiet on the interview front for awhile, and though she’s making more music and moves behind the scenes – Alicia is speaking up about all things woman.
Lifetime launched a new series dubbed The Conversation that Demi Moore executive produced, and it’s an empowering show geared toward women. The topics range from many different subjects, all pretty personal to being a woman. Alicia dished on a lot of her beliefs, trials and tribulations as well as her love for women of all shapes and sizes in the interview.
• On childbirth: “I think that it’s changed in so many ways. Your body does things that it never did before. You know, bones and structures move to new places. Overall, I think it’s tremendous and glorious.”
• On breastfeeding: “There’s a technique to learn– if you don’t know it, it’s not your fault. The whole engorgement thing? It hurts, and there’s no way around it.”
• In the bedroom: “ I actually happen to be a traditional type of girl, but I’m experimental.”
Watch the video on this page and check put captures in the gallery.

On May 4, Shepard Fairey hosted his gallery opening at Pace Prints in NYC. The celebrity couple was spotted at the event looking very loving. The two superstars were even caught chatting with the artist himself. Both Alicia and Swizz have expressed their love for the arts. Swizz has painted several artistic pieces, and Alicia has helped develop artistic pieces, including stage plays like Stick Fly. While at the gallery opening of the OBEY clothing brand founder, the couple tweeted about their favorite pieces. Alicia had this to say about one of them: “This is one of my favorites... Stirs me... Her face, those words... and the piece is metal! Makes it even more powerful to me!”

The producer stopped by Power 105.1's Breakfast Club to discuss his latest projects, and was also quizzed on his marriage to the superstar singer. When asked by DJ Envy what he buys Alicia, who can afford to buy anything herself, Swizz said she isn't into expensive gifts.
"The thing with her is she's not a materialistic person," Swizz told the Breakfast Club. "I'm serious, she's not. She's not, for real. I don't even where to begin with that. She's just likes thoughtful gifts.' Any woman would like thoughtful gifts that you can't just buy off the shelf, something that you put together." Watch the interview by clicking here, it's interesting.

The first person to congratulate “The Voice” winner Jermaine Paul has pretty decent pipes of her own: Alicia Keys.
Paul was still standing on the NBC stage Tuesday night, confetti falling around him, when his buddy passed him his cellphone. “She was screaming with excitement,” recounted Paul, who lives upstate in Harriman and was a longtime back-up singer for Keys. “She told me she’s been watching me and supporting me the whole time. She was saying how proud of me she was.” Paul was awarded the singing competition show’s top prize of $100,000 and a record deal with Universal. The next 24 hours were a whirlwind of red carpets, TV interviews and talk show appearances with the likes of Ellen Degeneres and Jay Leno. “It’s been a non-stop situation, but I’m loving every bit of it. I’m in no way complaining. This is a dream come true, I’ve been dreaming about a moment like this my whole life.”
Congratulations Jermaine, you deserve it! <3

Alicia Keys has admitted that struggling for money as a young person has made her much more cautious with her current fortune. Appearing on The Conversation with Amanda de Cadenet, the 'Fallin'' singer insisted that being financially educated is important for women in particular, as they are not often taught basic money tips in school.
"There's never been a time, until maybe college if you're on a more financial path - not even in high school, junior high school or elementary - where you talk about money or finances or even how to balance a cheque book. Who teaches you how to balance a cheque book?" Keys explained. "It's actually something that's not encouraged in our culture, to be intelligent about your finances and knowledgeable about it. At the same time, we're constantly shown and have beaten into our heads what we think we want to get, which is usually way out of our means. So it's a twisted world we live in and then have to navigate."
Keys went on to reveal that she always attempted to make wise decisions in regards to her income, saying: "I can't say anyone taught me how to do these things - I think trial and error taught me the most. But one thing kept me kind of balanced, which was knowing what it's like to have nothing and be just struggling to try and pull this together with that or 'Rob Peter to pay Paul', as my mother used to say... "It always made me feel like I wanted to be really cautious with my money when I started to receive it. I didn't abuse it, just throw it out and spend it, spend it. I always really wanted to save. It's kind of this constant rainy day thought that I've had in the back of my mind." The Conversation with Amanda de Cadenet airs Thursdays at 11pm on Lifetime. Watch the part of the interview by clicking here.

Alicia Keys and Swizz walk the red carpet at the 2012 White House Correspondents’ Dinner held at the Washington Hilton on Saturday (April 28) in Washington, DC. Keys is wearing a Diane von Furstenberg dress and Valentino heels.

Here are photos from Mtv Upfront event two days ago. Check them all!

Music from Alicia Keys has been rather scarce since she had her son in October of 2010. MTV invited Keys to perform at their network upfront event at the Beacon Theatre on Thursday. That's an event where the network invites members of the media industry to preview their upcoming television shows.
Mrs. Swizz Beatz took a seat behind her baby grand piano and debuted a new song called “Not Even The King”, singing out:

”All the kings horses and all the kings men, charging to get what we got / They offer the crown and they offer the throne, but I’ve already got all I want / All the kings horses and all the kings men, they came on marching through / They offer the world just to get what we got, but I found the world in you.”

Thanks to awesome JoJo of Jennifer Love Hewitt Online, I've posted Dazed & Confused magazine shoot of Alicia. I've also added more pictures from Vibe magazine, check them all. You can also watch behind the scenes video on Vibe.com.
“I think I always figured I was happy,” she told Vibe . “What’s not to be happy about? I have a great life and can do things I only dreamed of, and go places I only imagined in my mind, and that seemed like happiness to me... But I didn’t actually know happiness until recently.”

The controversial adult services section of the classified ad site Backpage.com gained more high-profile critics this week. A number of musicians, including Alicia Keys, Rosanne Cash, Talib Kweli, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., and The Roots have signed a petition against the adult ads, on the grounds that they are used by human traffickers to sell women and children sex slaves.
Backpage.com is owned by Village Voice Media, publishers of 13 alternative weeklies including the LA Weekly. The corporation has run articles in all 13 papers to downplay the frequency of child sex trafficking and attack critics, most famously Ashton Kutcher.
But this week the VVM papers have been uncharacteristically silent on the issue, despite both their new celebrity critics and a segment on Tuesday’s Nightline about the controversy. Is it possible the company has finally decided to stop compromising their journalistic integrity by using editorial pages to promote a corporate agenda? Let’s hope so. Read the full press release on this website.

It’s probably not a coincidence that Alicia Keys and her husband, Kasseem Dean, are wearing matching pants. His: expertly tailored and trim, skimming his sneakers just so. Hers: a sexy waxed denim that hugs her in all the right places. Both are the color of a well-made cappuccino. They’ve agreed to be interviewed together over dinner, a double date of sorts. It’s one of those novel ideas cooked up by magazine editors, but Keys, who seems more open now than she’s ever been, was keen to participate. And what better way to convey closeness than with his-and-her trousers.
But spend a couple of hours with them drinking cocktails that taste like tropical fruit juice, and it’s clear they don’t need color-coordinated outfits to get the point across. He’ll tug at the sleeve of her coat to help her shimmy out of it. Her hand will rest sweetly on his thigh. They’ll talk about their partnership in a way that says, “We want the whole world to have what we have,” and they’ll do it by telling you about the moment when they knew they were soul mates.
“It was the craziest thing,” says Dean, leaning forward in his chair. “We had a work lunch with some people, and I get home and look in the back pocket - "My credit card was in his pocket,” Keys finishes the story, eyes wide. “Why was my credit card in his pocket?”
One explanation might be that he’d grabbed it by accident when they split the check, but that would be too prosaic. They saw the credit card debacle as a sign, the first of many. Well, second, if you count the time, 14 years ago, when they first met and Dean tried unsuccessfully to get her number from his friend. “It wasn’t our time yet,” he says with a smile.
Maybe it’s the swanky lighting, the buzz from the booze or simply the glow thattends to bounce off of famous people, but now definitely seems to be their time. And hers, especially. At 31, Keys is among the best-selling recording artists of all time. She’s released five albums, won 14 Grammys and sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. She’s now working on her sixth album, and yet she appears relaxed, approachable, easy-breezy. Of course, she’s sort of always seemed that way, even all the way back in 2001, when she was a new artist with plenty of Harlem swag promoting her first album, Songs in A Minor. But let her tell it and this is the first time in her life when she feels comfortable in her own skin. It’s the pay off, she says, for making difficult choices, personally and professionally.
“Let’s just say I’ve been very uncomfortable,” she’d said a few days earlier, curled up on a squishy red sofa in a recording studio. “I’ve been brave enough to be uncomfortable.”
Check out two first pictures from the magazine. The issue hits newsstands on April 16.

Alicia Keys drives a red Lotus Evora sports car as she arrives at the ArtGate Gallery in New York City (April 5) to reportedly meet friends Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. Click on thumbs to see Alicia tear up the streets in her shiny sports car.

Swizz Beatz glowed like a proud husband when he referred to his wife’s upcoming album as “timeless” to Angie Martinez.
“The topics that she’s speaking about are super deep and from the heart, and to me what music has been missing,” Swizz said. “It’s the thing that makes us special as an artist. I tell her, ‘Yo, I’m proud of you because you’re making timeless pieces.’”
Aside from hubby Swizz, the singer’s been in the studio with Pop & Oak and Kerry “Krucial” Brothers, who has co-written and co-produced many songs on Alicia’s previous albums.
“It’s showtime,” he said. “She’s moving faster than people think. She’s tightening the bolts".
You can listen to the interview on Angie Martinez Show website.

Veteran crooner Neil Sedaka recruited Alicia Keys, Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick to sing a special song for Clive Davis at the music mogul's 80th birthday party this week.
The Sony Music boss reached the milestone on Wednesday (04Apr12) and to celebrate he hosted a lavish bash at the River Cafe venue in New York City for guests including Jennifer Hudson and Joan Rivers. Franklin, Keys and Warwick were also among the crowd, and when Sedaka stood up to give a surprise performance of his hits, he asked the female stars to join him for a rendition of Happy Birthday in honour of Davis.

Alicia Keys and her hip-hop producer husband, Swizz Beatz, are looking to unload their luxury penthouse on Crosby Street for $17.9 million. The duo bought the lavish SoHo condo in 2010 for $14.5 million from Lenny Kravitz. (The rocker had the apartment - which has also played home to Nicole Kidman and Denzel Washington - on the market for eight years before Keys locked in a deal). The 6,167-square-foot triplex has 3,000 square feet of terrace space, five bedrooms, four baths, four “powder rooms,” a “state-of-the-art windowed gourmet eat-in kitchen” and “formal dining room... encased in a glass solarium,” according to a Sotheby’s listing. And a “floating glass staircase” leads to a “private master suite complete with spa.” There’s an “automated entertainment system” and home theater, plus a wine cellar. Pictures posted of the pad reveal portraits of Keys, Sade, Muhammad Ali and Keith Haring art on the walls, and a Ducati motorcycle parked inside.

The singer-songwriter explained that he has spoken to Keys about writing a song together and that will.i.am approached him at this year's Brit Awards. Speaking about Keys, Labrinth told Capital FM: "I spoke to her over the phone. She called me in rehearsal while we were getting ready for the tour and we spoke about working." He added: "will.i.am came and stopped me and said, 'I love 'Earthquake', we need to work'. I'm like, 'What's going on with my life, it just keeps getting more crazy'. "I took his number and he sent me an email and I'm going to work on one of his records. He's the coolest guy I've met in the business.
Labrinth will release his new single 'Last Time' in the UK on March 19, while his debut album Electronic Earth follows on April 2.

Some veteran Muscle Shoals session players wrapped up a whirlwind session Friday with one of the best-selling musical artists of the past decade. Alicia Keys gathered with Swampers David Hood (bass) and Jimmy Johnson (guitar) and other local musicians at FAME Recording Studios to record a Bob Dylan song for a film documentary. They were joined by Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame songwriter and keyboardist Spooner Oldham, guitarist Larry Byrom and drummer Brian Owings. Keys and the band recorded “Pressing On” from Dylan’s “Saved” album, which was recorded in 1980.
Hood said the session started late Thursday when Keys arrived in town. She and the band rehearsed the song and spent much of Friday in front of the cameras performing the song in FAME’s Studio A, he said. "She seemed real comfortable with us,” Hood said. “She was really curious about the people we’ve worked with in the past".
Oldham said: "When she got there, I asked her which she wanted me to play, the Wurlitzer (electric piano) or the grand piano. She said play the Wurlitzer. She played the grand piano". Oldham said the session went smoothly. He also was impressed with Keys.
It’s not clear if the recording will be released in the near future. Read the full article here.

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