When I was 21, beer bombs, evading campus security while on an illegal scavenger hunt and figuring out how to weasle out of doing my Economics 203 paper were the order of the day. Unlike most her age, Alicia Keys has a multi-platinum selling album with Songs In A Minor. She bagged five Grammy awards and recently bagged two American Music Awards. Signed by music industry legend Clive Davis, the classically trained pianist counts Prince and Isaac Hayes as fans and has appeared on Oprah -- which gives her instant Q factor.
The always stylish Keys, in her trademark cornrow braids, initially made a dramatic entrance after the band struck up the opening chords of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony at a recent concert in Toronto.
While Keys isn't the future of R&B as some are claiming, she's worth championing because she's light years ahead of her videogenic contemporaries selling nuthin' but booty. (Hello, Britney, are you listening?)
