"Nobody can tell you who you are or what you like the way music can."
She's one of the most talented artists of her generation. This is the story of Alicia Keys.
She's one of the most talented artists of her generation. This is the story of Alicia Keys.
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00:00Art to me is the most incredible way to talk about the world, to talk about our issues,
00:05to talk about what we have to change, what we're fighting for, what we're fighting to do differently.
00:11And it's a beautiful way to bring us all together in a language that we all understand.
00:30Dream is just that, to never let anybody tell you that you can't.
00:43People will try to always say you can't do something, but that is not true. They don't know anything.
01:00Music is a crazy influence in all of our lives. Isn't that what's just so magical about it?
01:24It's like this thing that we can all define our own selves. Nobody can tell you what you like or who you are the way that music can.
01:33It can just kind of really start to shape what you believe in or what you think or what you feel or just feeling understood.
01:54She's at home with hip-hop, she's at home with soul, she's at home with pop.
02:21She really is today's best female or male. She's up there at the top.
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02:47My message to kids is that there's nothing that can stop you and that overall it doesn't matter of the outside world.
02:56It matters in here how you feel about yourself and that will take you so far.
03:00So love yourself and just strive at being the best you you can be.
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03:59As I am, it's actually way more aggressive than my other records.
04:03It's a sense of empowerment for sure that I found in myself and a sense of liberation too that I found in myself and freedom to really express what I feel exactly how I feel it and no holding back.
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04:36New York has always been a character in all my stories and the energy of New York, there's nothing like it.
04:41The vibrancy, the grit, the swag, the smell, the lights, the garbage.
04:57All of these things, they make me write good songs and why would I go anywhere else?
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05:20My wife is a person that loves giving back and she loves spreading awareness for things that matter in the world more than being materialistic.
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06:04These girls, they represent all the girls that are kept from education.
06:07They represent all the girls that are viewed as property.
06:10They represent all the girls that rape and violence is used as a weapon of war against and it is just outrageous.
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07:12For me personally, I feel like the biggest, biggest thing is to respect yourself.
07:17You have to, you have to respect yourself because if you evoke that respect for yourself then others have no choice but to respect you.
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