Alicia Keys: Empowering Women, Expanding Arts

0:00It's April 27, I'm Cory with the story, and this is Entertainment and Celebrity News today. AI-powered and star driven, Alicia Keys keeps pushing women's empowerment and music, where women make up just a tiny slice of the pie, especially as songwriters, producers, and engineers. The 17-time Grammy winner called out the Boys Club vibe in a recent interview, and she's co-founded She Is the Music with Folks Like. Universal's Jody Gerson to boost those numbers. Her hits like a woman's worth, Girl on Fire, and Superwoman started as personal pep talks when she felt low, not planned anthems, but they'd become. Threads in her work for lifting women up. Meanwhile, she's expanding into visual arts with her husband, Swiss Beats. Their Giants exhibition just opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego. It's the biggest private collection of work by artists of color that's ever toured, born from their love of street graffiti and deeper dives into black and brown creators amid

1:02funding cuts. Keys is also owning the stage with Hell's Kitchen, her jukebox musical inspired by her life with a single mom in New York, performing arts housing. It hit Broadway in April 2024 and is touring the U.S. now. She tells emerging artists to shake off Imposter Syndrome, surround themselves with good energy and own their intellectual property to build real. Legacies. Just like she's doing across music and art.