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Alicia Keys in Miami
Continued from page 1
Published on May 22, 2008
Still, she calls the Egypt trip a "pilgrimage," marking a true turning point in her outlook. "Being able to take myself out of my everyday environment, and kind of thrust myself into a brand-new world, to be totally alone, which I was, and to kind of shut off the world and shut out the world for a long period of time," she says, "it was like a self-discovery." Her management and label have felt this change the most, forced now to deal with her exerting greater control over her time.
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Thierry LeGoues
Alicia Keys can breathe again.
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Alicia Keys, American Airlines Arena, downtown Miami"I came back and I was just freer. And I was more ready to do everything and anything," Keys says. "I just took all these restrictions off myself and all of these kind of rules and regulations and ways that I was used to creating, and all this crap, and threw them out the window. And I just allowed myself to be vulnerable and free and open, and it created [on As I Am] some of the best music I've ever created yet."
She's not exaggerating.
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