Alicia Keys
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221 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Apr 2025
Alicia Keys’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And, you know, when it's the right time, I'm like, okay, cool. But if it's the wrong time, then it's also, but I'll go say hello. So happy to see you. Hope you're great. Thanks for saying hi. And it just might not be the right time. And that's okay, too. So just showing them the boundaries, too. But I think that, you know, sometimes they'll say, Genesis will be like, Ma.
You know, in school, they're like, that's Alicia Keys. It's like so annoying, mom.
And I'm like, that is annoying.
I feel you. That's annoying. But you could just tell them that's your mom. Yeah. Like you could just tell them, I know that, I see what you mean, but that's actually just my mom. Yeah. So you could tell them that. And then each of, you know, he's getting big and really strong in basketball and he's like doing so many amazing things. He has a great instinct.
And, you know, really, like when we'll walk into a room, it'll be me and Swiss. And if it's in the basketball universe, they'll be like, there's Egypt. Like they actually are starting to know Egypt's talent. And so it's really good. And it's wonderful that he has all of his own space. And I think sometimes he might feel like, that's what I want.
I want to make sure that it's not because of whatever else, you know? And so I feel for them, but I think that they're pretty cool about everything.
they have a good head on their shoulders you know they're kind they're loving they're thoughtful that's beautiful i'm really i'm really proud of them for all of them you know we have a beautiful big blended family and i'm proud of all of them because it's like each has such a special unique cool personality and i'm just like y'all are like really cool i love it i feel like you've been able to you know you've been in the music industry for so long i mean i want to know how
It was definitely, as you said, it's been a 13-year process. And I think that's made it very cool, like really almost enjoyable. Because whereas maybe sometimes with, because it was such a passion project, I knew it wasn't all going to happen quickly or at once.
And so I would be able to kind of take myself out of my like quote unquote normal life and go into this workshop phase with Hell's Kitchen. And I'd be able to figure out like, you know, what's the storylines? Me and the writer, the book writer would get to it and we'd say, here's the themes and here's the characters and here's the stories and let's start to build this universe.
And then when the director came in, Michael Greif, you know, he was really instrumental. He's kind of like that, me and Chris Diaz, who's the book writer, are a little bit more the newbies. And then Michael Greif is like the parental figure. He's like, this is what we do. We do this, we do this, we do this, we're good. And sure enough, we'd be like, wow, we needed that.
We didn't really know where we were going. So he was like a beautiful guide and light. And then as time passed, you know, being able to connect with the public theater, who's the theater who did, you know, Hamilton and Chorus Line and all of these incredible, incredible shows, even the softs they did. And, you know, there's so many beautiful things that they, that created another level of like,
clarity and just like refinement and really being able to bring it to life so all these things kind of happen in pockets like you know it'll be a three-week process and then we'll hold tight for a minute be a two-month process and then we'll hold tight a minute and then it'll be six months of just heavy and then we'll hold tight a minute and so it really gave me the capacity
to hold the container for the story and for the meaning. And I would always be able to come back to it and say, this feels right, or something's wrong about that. We have to figure that out. And then when we brought in the choreographer, she became another part of this beautiful tapestry. And she was creating movement around the songs in a way that I just never imagined.
heard it before and the orchestrator who's also been a partner to me in many ways, musically, Adam Blackstone, you know, we would create different versions and instrumentals and I wrote new songs. And so it was all these pieces and parts and you could start to feel little by little how it was all the right timing.
But I feel like the biggest, I wouldn't call it a challenge, I'm looking for the right word, the biggest- Yeah, maybe the biggest growth or the biggest awakening that I had with it was realizing that I could take this moment and I could almost take everything that I ever didn't do right. And I could fix it. I could learn from it.
I could take it, the knowledge, and I could put it into this process and I can fix it. I could do it right because I actually had the experience. And so my intellectual experience that I had gave me the ability to really look at it in a way that I had truly never had before.
And then because of that knowledge, really cultivating the strongest team of really awesome people in this particular universe to assist me as a newbie, as a person who hadn't quite traverse this path, yeah, was so inspiring and enlightening and empowering to really see that when everybody is the best at their field, you really can create something that truly is magical.
And so I learned so much from it. And obviously that's been years and years and years and years and years. And even just seeing it off Broadway and having to navigate our way through, how can we perfect the story? And there's still more to perfect. There's still more to craft. And doing that and being open and listening and really just being open too was tremendously rewarding.
So that day when we got that announcement that we had been nominated for 13 Tonys. Yeah. It was freaky. The 13, the 13. It was just all like, something's really divine here. Wow. And it was unbelievable. So it's been such a hands-on. I mean, I am notoriously anal. but in the best, most loving way.
Because I just, I know what it's supposed to be and I'm not going to let it go until it's right what it's meant to be.
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