• Trevor Noah to host the 2021 Grammy Awards

    Trevor Noah to host the 2021 Grammy Awards

    The comedian follows in the footsteps of his 'Daily Show' predecessor Jon Stewart, who emceed the ceremony in 2001 and 2002.
  • Alicia Keys pays sultry homage to jazzy Jill Scott on new album

    Alicia Keys pays sultry homage to jazzy Jill Scott on new album

    Even 15-time Grammy winners can be fan-girls. Clearly, that is the case with Alicia Keys. Her seventh studio album, which dropped on Friday, may be titled simply “Alicia,” but there is another R&B queen who gets a song named after her on the LP: Jill Scott. A great Scott, she must be. “Jill Scott,” featuring …
  • VMAs 2020 countdown: Best and worst musical lockdown performances

    VMAs 2020 countdown: Best and worst musical lockdown performances

    They’re not exactly the Moonpersons that anybody wanted to land at the VMAs. But when the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards go down on Sunday, there will be two new, COVID-era categories: best quarantine performance and best music video from home. Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber, and Post Malone are among the music …
  • Alicia Keys to create new lifestyle beauty brand with Elf Cosmetics

    Alicia Keys to create new lifestyle beauty brand with Elf Cosmetics

    Alicia Keys is adding “beauty trailblazer” to her resume. The 15-time Grammy winner, 39, is partnering with Elf Cosmetics to create a new beauty line, which is expected to launch in 2021. “A culmination of Keys’ personal skincare journey and her passion for bringing light into the world, this new lifestyle beauty brand will enable …
  • Celebrate Juneteenth with these new songs, from Teyana Taylor to Aretha

    Celebrate Juneteenth with these new songs, from Teyana Taylor to Aretha

    In celebration of Juneteenth — marking the freeing of the last enslaved Americans, on June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas — black artists have exercised their creative freedom with new music. And with June also being Black Music Month, it reminds us that music has always been an important part of the black experience in …
  • Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Meek Mill pen open letter calling for justice for Ahmaud Arbery

    Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Meek Mill pen open letter calling for justice for Ahmaud Arbery

    Musicians Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Meek Mill and Yo Gotti on Sunday urged Georgia officials to take swift action in the case of Ahmaud Arbery. The stars signed an open letter published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution demanding justice for Arbery, the unarmed black jogger gunned down in February, allegedly by two white men. The letter calls …
  • Alicia Keys gets a quarantine manicure from husband Swizz Beatz

    Alicia Keys gets a quarantine manicure from husband Swizz Beatz

    The couple that primps together, stays together. Despite beauty salons being shuttered amid the COVID-19 crisis, Alicia Keys got a manicure at home on Wednesday, courtesy of her husband Swizz Beatz. The 41-year-old hip-hop producer shared a video of himself filing the 39-year-old “Fallin’” singer’s fingernails, most of which were wrapped in aluminum foil. As …
  • Alicia Keys details in new memoir being ‘manipulated’ by photographer at 19

    Alicia Keys details in new memoir being ‘manipulated’ by photographer at 19

    At 19 years old, Alicia Keys says she felt “manipulated” and “objectified” by a photographer who made her open her shirt and pull down the top of her jeans. Keys, 39, detailed the photoshoot in her new memoir, “More Myself,” writing that the shutterbug convinced her team he needed to photograph her alone and then …
  • 5 secrets from Alicia Keys’ new book, ‘More Myself’

    5 secrets from Alicia Keys’ new book, ‘More Myself’

    In January, Alicia Keys hosted the Grammys for the second year in a row — after winning 15 gramophones of her own. And in her new book, “More Myself” (Flatiron Books) out Tuesday, the New York native, 39, reveals her journey to becoming a Grammy goddess. Here are five secrets that she shares in opening …