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Welcome to version 26 of Alicia Keys Zone! It was time to renovate and refresh the look of AKZ.. The photo gallery also has a brand new layout, so don’t forget to check it out.
The pictures used for the layout are the beautiful outtakes of Essence magazine (June 2008 issue), which can now be found among with 80 other ones in the picture gallery:
I hope you like the new layout — let me know what you think ;-)
More news and pictures to follow shortly.
Pictures of Alicia performing at the 02 Arena in London, England yesterday night have been added to the picture gallery. Enjoy!
New images of Alicia Keys on the set of her latest music video “Superwoman” have been added to the gallery. Alicia Keys will be paying homage to all of womankind, in her own unique way.
More information of the video can be found in this previous post.
Alicia Keys was spotted walking with who they say is her younger brother in London on Tuesday afternoon. Alicia recently signed a deal as spokesperson with Glacéau’s Vitamin Water that is worth more than $25 million.
Credit goes to ConcreteLoop.Com!
“The Secret Life of Bees,” based on the bestselling novel, is set in the racially-charged South during the 1960s and follows a white girl (Dakota Fanning) who flees an abusive home with her African-American caregiver (after springing her from bigots at the local jail). Together, the two travel to the small South Carolina town where the secret behind her mother’s death lies buried.
During a recent visit to the set, MTV spoke with co-stars Jennifer Hudson (who plays the caregiver) and artist Alicia Keys, who plays a part in the film. The co-stars took a break from their busy schedules to talk about music and the pic, which also stars Queen Latifah and Paul Bettany.
Click here to watch the video.
Eleven-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys launched one of the first text message donation campaigns in the U.S. to benefit Keep A Child Alive. During her As I Am concert tour, Keys took a few moments out of each show to show a clip from her film Alicia in Africa: Journey to the Motherland and to invite fans to donate $5 using their mobile phones. By text messaging the word ‘ALIVE‘ to shortcode 90999, thousands of fans donated on the spot to Keep A Child Alive, helping support the organization’s crucial efforts in communities affected by AIDS in Africa.
The mobile giving campaign proved to be a viable new fundraising channel for Keep A Child Alive with close to 8,000 fans donating over $40,000 to combat the African AIDS Pandemic.
“Texting can provide a way to give at that instant when we are moved, rather than later when life takes over,” said Alicia Keys.
“For many people, this was their first encounter with mobile giving and it came through Keep A Child Alive, which has always been a cutting-edge, progressive organization,” explained Leigh Blake, Co-Founder and President of Keep A Child Alive. “I’m convinced that the ease of mobile giving helped us receive many contributions we might not have gotten otherwise.”
“The launch of text message donations marks a true milestone in the world of philanthropy,” said James Eberhard, Chairman and CEO of Mobile Accord. “Mobile giving creates a system where instead of raising millions of dollars from 5 or 10 people, nonprofits now have the ability to instantly raise individual donations of $5 or $10 from millions of people. This was demonstrated during the Alicia Keys concert series with our mGive platform, as we saw between 6-12% of the audience use their phone and participate.”
New pictures have been added of the M. Strahan and D. LLP Charity Golf Tournament (29th June 2008) and a photoshoot at the BET Awards event! Enjoy.
