Janelle Monae is to be Featured in "Women Who Rock" Exhibit!

Congratulations to Janelle Monae on her inclusion in the prestigious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum! The first ever "Women Who Rock" exhibit will open to the public on Friday, May 3rd.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will open a ground-breaking and provocative new exhibit that will illustrate the important roles women have played in rock and roll, from its inception through today. Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power will highlight the flashpoints, the firsts, the best, the celebrated and sometimes lesser-known women who moved rock and roll music and American culture forward. The exhibit is sponsored by PNC and Time Warner Cable. Women Who Rock will open to the public on Friday, May 13, 2011.

Janelle will be featured in the Ladies First: the 90's and the New Millenium section of the exhibit. Check out the official excerpt below. Highlighted artists will include Bikini Kill, Meg White, Taylor Swift, Queen Latifah, Janelle Monae, Alicia Keys and Lady Gaga.

Read more about it here.

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Alicia Keys - Reminisces on her Beginnings with HP

Alicia Keys shares how and where her first album "Songs in A Minor" was created. It's a very insightful look into the beginnings of this incredibly talented artist. This video was created by HP in a campaign for HP Computer’s Everybody On. The campaign aims to demonstrate how people around the world use HP products and technology to pursue their personal and professional dreams.

Besides revealing her beginnings in Harlem in a small one bedroom apartment, Alicia Keys also talks about the ‘Alicia’s Keys’ virtual piano computer software and how she “loves” that HP let’s people listen to her music in the way that she intended.

Alicia Keys is nominated for three Grammys in the categories of "Record of the Year", "Best Rap/Sung Collaboration", and "Best Rap Song". The Grammy Awards will air tonight.

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Alicia Keys and Swizz Beats Wed in Corsica

Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) gathered with family and friends, Saturday, on the French island of Corsica.

As usual Alicia was gorgeous, she wore a Vera Wang gown and Swizz Beatz wore a Tom Ford tux and Christian Louboutin Oxfords.

Bono, Queen Latifah and Mr. Louboutin were among the VIP guests. Other guests included Alicia's mother Terry Augello and Swizz' son Prince Nasir Dean. Dr. Deepak Chopra presided over the ceremony.

“Wowwwwwwwwww,” tweeted Swizzy on the big day. “It’s a brand new day :) I feel like Nas and Diddy song :) love y’all and blessing!”

We all wish Alicia and Swizz a long and blissful marriage!

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Alicia Keys Honors Lena Horne in EW Magazine

Alicia Keys wrote a moving tribute to the late Lena Horne for Entertainment Weekly magazine. She recently started researching Lena’s life and became an overnight fan! Keys admits that she often listens to her songs on Sunday mornings, in particular “Stormy Weather”. 

"I've never been able to ask her directly, but I've read that she was very insecure about her voice. She didn't feel that she had a beautiful voice. I feel totally differently: she had a very special and unique voice and style and quality. "I hear a lot of sadness in her voice. I just love that melancholy tone that she has." Says Keys.

She also admires what Horne was able to do as an African-American woman living when "the options and opportunities for black women were very limited."

She notes, "Lena Horne opened doors for all of us. That's a major legacy she's leaving behind." 

Lena Horne passed away this week, on May 10th.

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Listen to Alicia keys’ Sex and the City 2 Song “Rapture”

 Yesterday, I shared Jennifer Hudson and Leona Lewis’ collaboration for “Sex and the City 2”, today another great “Sex and the City 2” track merged on the net. It’s titled “Rapture” and it is covered by Alicia Keys.  The song was initially performed by Blondie.

“Rapture” was one of the first pop hits heavily-influenced by early hip-hop production when it hit the airwaves almost 30 years ago.

So far the second album for “Sex and the City” sounds a lot more fun, cool, just better than the first one. Having said that, being an eternal fan of the 70s and 80s, i will always prefer the original.

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