That'd be quite a successful night for Amy Winehouse then - not so much that she won five Grammys, but more that she turned in two performances for prime-time US TV without screwing up. Watching the performances, though ( they're on the DailyMotion ) there is a rather nagging question: where did that audience come from? Who were they? Did they have to pay $300 a head to be there? Winehouse took five of the awards she'd been nominated for , but didn't get album of the year. Herbie Hancock did, to an audible intake of breath round the world. A jazz album ? Surely some mistake?  read more »

Written By SOHH Soul Rebel Hot off the press this week Alicia Keys plans on Fallin out of the public eye, Young Jeezy tells Keyshia Cole to Let It Go, Amy Winehouse disses Kanye West and the American Idols get knocked up and married. , Ch The New 60 Have Alicia Keys tell it, 30 is the prime age for retirement. The multi-platinum singer and actress reportedly admitted shes considering bowing out of the entertainment industry in a few years.  read more »

Alicia Keys clumsily claims that the concept of "gangsta rap" was a concoction of the government/media in a Blender interview, and uncommercial maverick artists like 50 Cent get in a tizzy over the idea that they might be playing into some sort of conglomerate-approved caricature. "I don't like Alicia Keys no more though ... the same reason why I said that I don't like Oprah Winfrey." moaned Fid, "I'm prejudice(d). I don't like people who don't like me." Maybe he's just bummed he hasn't been asked to play her boyfriend in a music video. Not that he likes that "classical music shit" she's been putting out.  read more »

Songs In A Minor is the latest Pop CD put out by the extremely talented Alicia Keys who once again has delivered a brilliant collection of tracks. I'm confident Alicia Keys fans, and Pop fans alike will be pleased with this one. Refreshingly, this was one of those CDs I was able to just pop in and comfortably listen to from beginning to end.

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If you were a multiplatinum artist and Grammy perennial like Alicia Keys, would you bother appearing in Fresh Takes, a Dove-sponsored "microseries" that runs during episodes of The Hills? Wouldn't roles in upcoming prestige pics with names like The Secret Life Of Bees and Composition In Black And White scratch your thespian itch enough that you can pass on dialogue like "my mom is on Facebook?!" Is that Dove money so sweet that you're cool working with Nick Lachey? Do you really want what's left of him?  read more »

Ed. note: Chris "dennisobell" Molanphy , our resident chart guru, looks at the upward, downward, and lack of movement on this week's Billboard charts: Imagine, for a moment, you're in promotions at Sony/BMG, and you're trying to stoke interest in the 25th-anniversary edition of Michael Jackson's Thriller . This isn't the first time you guys have rereleased the record, and with Michael coming up on his 50th birthday, you've got your work cut out to make him look relevant.  read more »

Alicia Keys visited the ‘Today’ show on Monday (October 6) to talk with co-hosts Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford about her role in the new film ‘The Secret Life of Bees’. The...

Tabloid fixture and sometime singer Amy Winehouse has told a UK gossip columnist that even though her stab at a theme to the new James Bond movie, Quantum Of Solace, was rejected in favor of a collaboration between Jack White and Alicia Keys, she's going to get it together enough to record the song anyway. Really!  read more »

Written By SOHH Soul Rebel R&B divas Beyonc and Alicia Keys continue to rake in dollars with product endorsements. In addition to ads for House of Dereon that have recently hit the net, longtime Beyonc sponsor LOral has been getting... [Visit SOHH.com for more information]