Alicia Keys interview

Alicia Keys is pregnant and, she says, she's gone 'from steel to silk'. The multi-million selling singer - and vocalist on Jay-Z's mega-hit, Empire State of Mind - talks to Chrissy Iley
t’s midnight and there’s a bank of paparazzi in front of me surrounding Alicia Keys’ trailer like big buzzing flies. They jostle and push; they feel very threatening.

I’ve been waiting to interview her since 4.30pm. Now, eventually, I’m inside the trailer. It’s a symphony of fawn and beige leatherette; dark and dank with chunks of newly cut hair from Keys’ hairpiece on the floor. Keys and her hairstylist, assistant and several other hangers-on are holed up inside. She says, 'It’s like being in jail in here.’

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