Singer Alicia Keys refuses to speak negatively about her experience of “painful” childbirth to avoid traumatising other expectant mothers.
The Fallin’ hitmaker adopted a meditative technique to help her cope when she delivered her first son Egypt in October 2010.
The process was far from easy, but Keys downplays the pain factor when talking to other women about labour.
She tells British newspaper…

R&B star Alicia Keys is set to pay tribute to volunteers aiding the recovery effort in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy by performing a special concert for them in New York.
The Empire State of Mind hitmaker’s native Big Apple was one of the areas worst hit by last month’s superstorm, which wreaked havoc across the East Coast, leaving hundreds of residents homeless and millions…

Singer Alicia Keys decided to mend her relationship with her estranged father after her grandmother fell terminally ill in 2006.
The Fallin’ hitmaker was raised by her single mom Teresa after her dad Craig Cook left the family when Keys was just two years old, and she spent years resenting him.
But the star, who is now a mom to two-year-old son Egypt, had…

Alicia Keys has called on her fans to join in a protest campaigning against a New York newspaper’s online classified pages, amid allegations the listings allow the facilitation of sex trafficking.
The Empire State of Mind singer has thrown her support behind officials at the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW), who are planning to gather outside the Manhattan headquarters of the Village Voice publication…