Alicia Keys

Everyone wants to be famous but the multi-Grammy winner Alicia Keys says her fame can make you “a ghost of yourself” and “can bring a lot of emptiness”. That’s not such a good news? Isn’t it? The 27-year-old singer, who sold over 23 million albums and winning over 80 major awards - including 11 Grammys, says fame can really make you lose yourself and living each day on the edge.

As a recall, Alicia Keys back in 2006, exasperated by the pressures of fame, she took a break from music and traveled to Egypt to recuperate discovering the power of the nature. In other Celebrity news, Alicia Keys is to perform the theme tune to the next James Bond film “Quantum of Solace” with White Stripes singer Jack White.

Fame can bring a lot of emptiness. You are so driven that you work 20 hours a day, you get four hours of sleep, you do all that for 10 years straight. Then, all of a sudden, you think, ‘I’m a singer and, yes, I’m a songwriter and, yes, I perform, but what else is in my life? Do I have a family? Am I growing inside? Am I always too busy to see my mother and the people I love?’
- Alicia Keys told Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper -

You have to numb yourself because you are away so long. It can change you and that is not the type of person I want to be. People always want something from you - you become like a ghost of yourself or of the person you could be.
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