Alicia Keys’ On The Music Enterprise: An Alien Universe

Alicia Keys believed she “needed to conform to everyone’s expectations” when she first broke into the leisure world.

The Grammy-award-winning singer felt as if the music enterprise was an “alien universe” when she first began out.

Alicia, now 43, turned well-known in 2001 when she was simply 19, along with her album Songs in a Minor – and located it exhausting to navigate the business.

“I all the time felt like on prime of being a younger woman simply getting into into the music enterprise, exploring, being on tv and performing beneath sizzling lights and sweating and simply (being) in a complete new universe – it was like an alien universe,” she advised Folks journal. “I didn’t really feel like myself. I felt like I needed to conform to everyone’s expectation of what they thought I used to be or needs to be.”

She added, “And it actually took various self-discipline and quite a lot of time earlier than I acquired to the place the place I spotted that I didn’t need to be this individual, that I didn’t need to fulfil different folks’s goals of me. I may truly simply be who I’m.”

Lately, Alicia has embraced her pure facet. In 2016 she determined to cease sporting make-up in public, which she did for a number of years.

She’s since stated that this “rebellious second” was about “how do you wish to specific your self, and what area do you wish to declare for your self? And what boundaries would you like for your self?”

Alicia not too long ago carried out alongside Usher on the Tremendous Bowl halftime present.