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alicia keys - the freedom tour

‘The Princess of Soul’ and nine time Grammy award winner Alicia Keys brings The Freedom Tour to the UK on May 19th at Birmingham National Indoor Arena.

Following one night in Ireland at the Dublin O2 Arena, Keys arrives back in the UK for a date in Glasgow, two nights in London and a final night in Manchester, all during the month of May.

Considering her  popularity in the UK, five concert appearances just does not seem enough to me and Alicia Keys tickets are bound to be scarce, if not like gold dust.

The Freedom Tour was announced in December 2009 to coincide with the release of Alicia Keys fourth studio album, The Element of Freedom, at around the same time Keys was named as R&B/HipHop Artist of the Decade by Billboard magazine.

Keys explains the origins of the current tour show;

“The show is, obviously, always focused around music; that’s what is always my main focus. When we first start putting it all together, it all starts at the music, and then it’s what story that I want to tell and kind of what energy I want to give off. There’s going to be something for everyone in this show because that’s who I am, I am a person who feels things from all different angles and directions, and I’m going to express it that way … and that’s how I arm-wrestle people who are close-minded.”

Of the many and varied R&B concerts going on in the UK this year, Alicia Keys has to be the stand out artist on show and given the rarity of her shows in the UK, well worth making the effort to see.

For a full list of Alicia Keys UK & European dates, visit the viagogo website.

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