AWWW Factor: The Keys Family Spotted In NYC Takin' A Drive

Just wanted to post this pic of this nice-looking family... Despite what some of you may say about Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz, and the whole Mashonda situation....


Just capture the beauty of this moment.
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BEYONCE and ALICIA KEYS Will Finally Release Their 'Put It In A Love Song' Video After A 1-YR. Hold

Some people wondered what ever happened to a Beyonce/Alicia Keys duo??
It is now believed that the music video from their 'Put It In A Love Song' single will be released sometime around Beyonce's 2011 album release; I strongly believe that's the reason the music video was on a 1-YEAR HOLD.


For now, just check out the screen shot above; that's all they're giving fans to work with and get a glimpse of this seemingly fun and very FESTIVE occasion of a video... or it could be SULTRY. Not much to go by, but I like the use of the GOLD and FEATHERS. Gold and feathers-- did I just say that?


I think I need to take a nap.

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ALICIA KEYS and SWIZZ BEATZ Spotted Lookin' TOO COOL at the B-ball Game

Bringing this day to a close, I want to put out pictures of Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz lookin' mighty sharp at the basketball game. I have to say that this was an astounding caliber of swag. Check out Alicia in the BALMAIN-ish (it could be BALMAIN) jacket, and the couple in blinged-out Louboutin stilletos (SWIZZ in the sneakers. MediaTakeout put out some real good pics..








YUP-YUP...

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Alicia Keys - Un-thinkable (I'm Ready) [Video] & [mp3]

Download:Un-thinkable (I'm Ready) [Main Version]


Keys filmed the music video in Los Angeles with director Jake Nava. Although Drake appears on background vocals Keys has stated that he won't appear in the video because she said "that would be too obvious". The video will tackle issues of interracial dating and as Keys told Rap Up magazine, "The promo clip will highlight the past and present stigmas surrounding the subject." Additionally Chad Michael Murray, best known for his credits in One Tree Hill, plays Keys' love interest. One of the scenes will depict a blood-stained Murray fighting a gang of men. The video made its world premiere on May 12, 2010 on Vevo and on BET's 106 & Park.

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4-14-2010-Today's Singles + Drake Over Live Performance DL NOW!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN2DHt-WeDoendofvid
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Alicia Keys Ft Shyne-Unthinkable (Remix)
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Lil Kim-Sex Toy [Explicit]
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Yung Ralph ft. Nicki Minaj-I Bought That-Remix
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Alicia Keys Ft Lloyd Banks-Unthinkable (Remix)
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Nu Jerzey Devil Ft Game,Ya Boy & Tone Trump-Fresh Like
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DJ Khaled Feat J. Cole - We On
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Ciara Feat Ludacris - Ride It
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Young Buck - Eviction Notice
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Nu JerZey Devil Feat Mack Maine - Entrepreneurs
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Cypress Hill - Get It Anyway [Prod. By Jim Jonsin] (Dirty)
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Cypress Hill - Light It Up [Prod. By Pete Rock]
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Cypress Hill Feat Evidence and The Alchemist - Pass The Dutch [Prod. By DJ Muggs And DJ Khalil]
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Game - It Must Be Me feat. Pharrell (Produced By The Neptunes) (First Single) (CDQ/No DJ/Full)
Damn!!!!Spring is heating up!!!fist Ross drops his single now Game!!!
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Wale Ft Chris Brown & Fabolous–Pretty Girls (Remix)
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Rihanna feat Shyne-Rudeboy (REMIX)
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Islandistas unite for Gotham magazine cover

It was an islandista affair recently when Antiguan-born stylist June Ambrose connected with the half-Jamaican singer Alicia Keys for a gorgeous photo shoot for the Gotham magazine cover, below.



Ambrose also tweeted pics giving followers a behind the scenes glimpse at the shoot which she styled. Check them below.

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Islandistas at the Brit Awards

The biggest night in British music came off two nights ago and plenty islandistas were in the mix and while none of them won any awards on the night, they at least looked the part.

X-Factor divas Alexandra Burke and Leona Lewis played against type in their outfits. Alexandra, who often rocks short dresses to show off her great legs, went very formal award show in a lovely long, strapless red Notte by Marchesa dress with a huge bow at the top.

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Good girl Leona on the other hand, went edgy with a funky gun-metal silver William Tempest dress and bubble-gum pink Stella McCartney heels.



Love it. It looks like something Rihanna would wear and we mean that in the best way. Definitely hot.

'Strictly Come Dancing Host' Alesha Dixon and American singer Alicia Keys, who both have Jamaican fathers both went sparkly, dark and short for their dresses - but in very different ways.


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Alicia (or rather her makeup artist?) also went a biiiiit too happy with the bronzer. Not. a. good. look from the heck up. Great all the way down.

And we love the contrast of the juicy orange pumps with Alesha's sparkly dark mini.

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Island folk part of massive Hope for Haiti telethon

And I can't tell you how...  how moved I am that everybody cares. It means a lot because for so long, no one cared. For so long, no one knew us. And this really means a lot.

- Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon











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Those were the words from a tearful Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon earlier this week on Larry King Live, during a mini telethon which CNN held to raise funds to aid Haiti which was ripped apart by a huge earthquake on January 12th.

Islandistas, we have to tell you -  Garcelle's words really grabbed us - the emotion in her voice when she said "no one cared... no one knew us" was really moving. It made us think of the burden and conflicted emotions that her and other Haitians have to bear loving a country that can be so unremittingly sad.









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This is really what it had to come to for the world to look at Ayiti, to pay attention to the injustices that have been wrought upon it since they first declared independence in 1804.

But at least now they are looking.

And a huge cast of stars, including island folk in Wyclef Jean, Rihanna and Alicia Keys are getting together tomorrow night for what could be one of the biggest telethons of all time - the Hope for Haiti telethon, spearheaded by George Clooney and MTV Networks.



The telethon is going to be seen across just about every well-known network - MTV, VH1, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, BET, the CW, HBO, CMT, PBS, TNT, Showtime, Comedy Central, Bravo, E! Entertainment Network, National Geographic Channel, Oxygen, G4, Centric, Current TV, Fuse, MLB Network, Epix, Palladia, SoapNet, Style, Discovery Health and Planet Green, Canada's CTV, CBC Television, Global Television and MuchMusic.

It will also be aired on the international networks of certain channels, including BET International, CNN International, National Geographic and MTV Networks International.

Over HALF A BILLION homes world wide will see the telethon - estimates are that it will be available in 640 million homes.

Donations will go to Oxfam America, Partners in Health, Red Cross, UNICEF and Wyclef's Yele Haiti foundation, the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund and United Nations World Food Programme, with funds raised being split evenly between the organisations.

Islandistas, you know what you have to do tomorrow night. More than anyone else, we need to step up for Haiti because that is our Caribbean family. Rihanna, who will be performing from London for the show, put it well when discussing it on a Norwegian talk show today.

"In the Caribbean, we think of ourselves as one big family, one country. We're all together. We all represent each other....

It's like it happened to Barbados."

Or Trinidad. Or Jamaica. Or Puerto Rico or Curacao. Let us be our brothers' and sisters' keepers.

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Alicia Keys [ft. Beyoncé] - Put In A Love Song

Wow! Alicia Keys and Beyoncé collaboration on the song titled Put In A Love Song man this song has brillant work to it its like it could be dancing to this song on the video... 2 thumbs up to Alicia Keys and Beyoncé I love this song is a bangger... the album... The Element of Freedom is the fourth studio album by American recording artist Alicia Keys, scheduled to be released December 15, 2009 on J Records in the United States. Download: Put It in a Love Song" (featuring Beyoncé)

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Islandistas at the AMAs

So the American Music Awards hit the air last night and everyone is still buzzing about it.

Adam Lambert's performance? Just... wow.

But would people have been so shocked if a raunchy female performer - say a Janet or even a Rihanna, did the same thing? Food for thought, eh?


Speaking of Rihanna, her performance outfit was... pretty risque. We're getting to expect that from Ri-ri, so really the question should be - where does this rank among her more out-there outfits?






Her red carpet outfit - a black and white Marchesa from their spring 2010 line and her red-eyed makeup was pushing the fashion envelope too, which is to be expected. Not sure if we like it as much as her triumphant Glamour awards couture dress but we appreciate the effort.






Islandista Alicia Keys kept it sparkly and sexy in a blue patterned mini from Giorgio Armani's spring 2010 line. Our only quibble - Alicia got some big, old volleyball/hockey player girl legs! We observed this from as far back as last year's BET awards and Alicia just seems to be getting thicker and thicker so maybe a short dress with a split might not have been the best choice - she juuussst about gets away with it.






J. Lo looked hot outfit wise both on the red carpet and after her... dramatic (poor t'ing) performance.






We especially loved her feather-skirted dress but what was up with her wet, dragged back hair? It looked like she came out the shower with it - not very award show worthy.






And Leona Lewis is sticking with queen of punk Vivienne Westwood and her black pleather creations for the foreseeable future, debuting a short version of the dress that wowed us a while back. I think we can let it rest now Le-le...

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Islandistas at the BET Awards & after-parties

Sighhhh.... oh BET.

BET, BET, B.E.T.

What can we say about Black Entertainment (or is that Exploitation?) Television's awards show on Sunday night?

Well for one, we like others really only tuned in for the expected Michael Jackson tribute.

If it weren't for that, we doubt we would have made it all the way through.

It was especially rough towards the end there when Lil Wayne and the world's most hyped new rapper Drake performed 'Every Girl in the World'.

And Lil Wayne brought his 10 year old daughter and her friends up on stage.

To sing along with the lyrics "I just wanna f*ck every girl in the world."

Sigh.

We actually tuned out then but fortunately tuned back in just in time to see Janet Jackson take the stage and provide such a counterpoint to that mess, with her simple and moving words on behalf of her brother.

When she said "to you Michael is an icon. To us Michael is family" I cried. Don't lie, you all know you did too!

And then when they followed that up with Jamie Foxx and Ne-Yo's performance of 'Ill Be There'.

I bawl, no lie.

Anyhow, that was one shining moment. In our opinion, there were a few other high points like New Edition's opening tribute, the tribute to the O'Jays with Trey Songz, Tyrese and Johnny Gill and Maxwell's performance.

Aside from that...it was ... eh.

Anyhow, there were some moments for islandistas and one islandisto so let's get to it.

Islandista Alicia Keys and islandisto Wyclef Jean both were honoured with humanitarian awards. Alicia for her work with numerous organisations, chiefly Keep a Child Alive.




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Haitian ambassador Wyclef was honoured for his tireless work with Yele Haiti. And when we say tireless we mean it. You really have to respect how Wyclef keeps his country's situation front and center because it is too long the world has been trying to ignore Ayiti. He clearly subscribes to the "dem a go tiad fi see mi face" theory because they can't keep him out at all.




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There were also a good few islandistas on the red carpet at the show and at the after parties. Take a look below.




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Islandista by descent Estelle wore a strapless peplum skirt dress that would have been absolutely fantastic if it wasn't in denim. I just dunno about denim for a whole dress, especially a formal one. She paid tribute to Michael Jackson by sporting the iconic single white glove.




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I actually really did not like Tatyana Ali's dress. I thought the bronze lace material looked old womanish and the beading around the bodice and shoulders looked too chunky and clunky. Her skin and hair look great but otherwise this outfit just fail.




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Shontelle was at the after party. She's looking a bit more like she's actually eating food. Or maybe it's just the dress. Either way, it's a good thing. Keep it up.

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Islandista by descent and the video vixen all the video vixens want to be like, Melyssa Ford was also there. Yep... she's an islandista - half Barbadian through her beloved late father and half Norwegian. Who knew? Well we did...

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Fay-Ann and Destra out front & islandistas at Oscar parties

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So up to now, we here at Islandista are still not sure who has won the Road March title in Trinidad and Tobago. From all accounts, it seems to be a close battle between Fay-Ann Lyons 'Meet Super Blue' and Destra Garcia's 'Bacchanal'.

Checking Trinidad's major papers isn't helping either.

The Trinidad Express claims, 'Bacchanal hot on Super Blue's tail', while the Guardian says 'Destra, Faye-Ann in tight race for Road March'. At first glance, NewsDay seems to be sure it is Fay-Ann, with their front page proclaiming 'Fay-Ann's Queen of the Road' and their online lead story headlined as 'Fay-Ann leads Road March race'. However, later in the article they caution "Destra Garcia's 'Bacchanal' however is not to be discounted."

Arrrrghhh! Hopefully, the results should be out before noon and I trust our islandista readers will let us know early o'clock which Islandista is the Road March Queen. The suspense is killing me.

Anyhow, in other news, the Oscar Awards, as you would know, were on Sunday night. While no islandistas won, there were plenty islandistas to be seen at the hot post-Oscar parties such as the Vanity Fair party and Oscar-watch parties, such as the one at Mr. Chow's. Take a look at some of the islandistas who made the scene below.




Alicia Keys came with her mom and inexplicably wore an awful wavy-haired wig that detracted from her gorgeous lilac gown that she wore to the ceremony. See a closer shot of the wigginess below.



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Eh-heh. No.




Haitian-American Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon was gorgeous and statuesque in a cold-shouldered black gown at Mr. Chow's Oscar Watch party (aka the party for the celebs who didn't get invited to the actual ceremony or the hottest ticket, the Vanity Fair party but still have enough wattage to be worth a party.)

Half-Nevisian Mel B was also at the Mr. Chow party with her ridiculously fantastic body. Grrrr...



At the night's hottest party (yes, even hotter than the Oscars which were a bit of a snooze), the gold-ticket Vanity Fair event, islandistas Zoe Saldana (Puerto Rico and Dom. Rep.) and Rosario Dawson (Cuba/Puerto Rico) made appearances.

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Islandistas at the AMAs

The American Music Awards were last night and there were a few islandistas speckled here and there amidst this mostly 'pop' awards show. 

 



 Rihanna aka the real hottest chick in the game was on the red carpet and on the stage, performing her new song 'Rehab' (Amy Winehouse anyone? hm.)



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 Truthfully, not too sure about this dress. Love the concept and material but something about the way it is cut around the waist is making Rihanna look short-bodied and at 5"9, she is far from.

 

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Avast there me hearties! What is up with the bejewelled eye-patch Ri-ri? Even you can't stop that from looking slightly ridiculous.

Ms. Alicia Keys also hit the red carpet and performed 'Superwoman along with Queen Latifah and opera great Kathleen Battle.

 

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We ... LOVE... Alicia's shoes ... hotness cyan dun!


Brit-Guyanese singer Leona Lewis was also on the red carpet looking gorgeous as usual and yes, yes we know Guyana is not an island, so how she get an islandista? Because Guyana is part of the Caribbean and this blog is for Caribbean women and we decide we want to include her in our islandista hot list so if we say so, is so.... lol! Plus, Guyana has some islands within it... like in its rivers and ting... ok we're stretching it now!


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Notes on the BET Awards 08 - Islandistas on the red carpet

 Trini-descended islandista Nia Long was absolutely working this plum-coloured dress. I loved everything about it - the rich colour, the daring back with just the two suspender-like straps down to the waist, the draped pockets at the sides, the plunging neckline - it was a winner from every direction. And of course, Nia herself is just fabulous - she really harkens back to the late 90s, early 'noughties' heyday of black romantic cinema featuring all those fabulous buppies - Love Jones, The Best Man, Soul Food ... what happened to those movies anyhow? There was a good run there in the late 90s.






Another islandista by descent, the half-Nevisian Mel B aka Scary Spice was also at the awards and showed off her fabulous body in this close-fitting champagne-coloured dress. As opposed to Nia's dress with its complex structure, this dress is deceptively simple but the gorgeous colour and Mel's great shape is all it needs.

Half-Jamaican and sometime dancehall songstress islandista Alicia Keys had three outfit changes on the night. First was her fuschia dress with the slight origami-like folds on the bodice that she rocked on the red carpet. Didn't so much like how the skirt of this fell - it wasn't quite a bubble shape, not quite straight... hmm. But the colour was definitely pretty.






Next was her performance outfit.






And... well!

Ms. Keys was never rail thin or anything but laaaaaawd gaad ... she a tek fowl pill or what? Since when she had all that bumper? I know her skinny jeans had to be struggling!






And third was her post-performance, acceptance dress - a beige number that would have been blah-ish were it not for the dramatic silver and gold embellishment running across the bodice and along the shoulder. Not everyone's cup of tea but I liked it. I like artistes to wear something a little daring and different. 






I wasn't sure whether to include this last one but I'm feeling generous. Islandista-by-marriage (though maybe not for much longer what with all the scandal facing her hubby, Turks and Caicos Premier Michael Misick) LisaRaye McCoy-Misick wore a great short metallic dress. Quite daring for a red carpet but allowable I think for a music show. And for a woman that is 40-pushing-41, she looks great!

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