ALICIA KEYS TELLS NYU STUDENTS TO PUT IN WORK x COVERS UPTOWN MAGAZINE HOLIDAY ISSUE!
Last week, Alicia Keys embarked on her college lecture series titled “The Element of Freedom” and her first stop was NYU’s Skirball’s Center for the Performing Arts where she spoke to an auditorium full of eager college students.
“I’m loving this tonight [that] we’re here at NYU. I’ve always, always, always wanted to come to colleges. … These are some very creative young people out there, and I want to reach out to them and share some of my story and hear some of their questions and really be able to start a dialogue.”
The Grammy Award-winning songstress also made it clear to students that to achieve success they must “put in the work”.
“No matter where you’re from, you gotta put in the work. I’ve really learned a balance between creativity and play and working and experiencing. Adding, “Before I used to kind of just totally lock myself in a room and create for like months on end thinking that was the best way to create music. But now I’ve really learned a balance between creativity and play and working and experiencing, and it’s really made the process of creating this record a lot more pleasurable.”
Peep the beautiful and talented Alicia Keys on the cover of Uptown magazine’s Holiday issue below.
Alicia’s really going in with the promo! Me likey…