The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Alicia Keys reads as The Visionary because she converts interior excavation into cultural architecture at scale. Hell's Kitchen took more than a decade to build precisely because she refused to let it exist until it unlocked something true about her mother's sacrificed dreams and her own father wound.
“Keep your frequency high. Yes, because I think it's very disconcerting, obviously. It's troubling. It's scary. I'm sure a lot of us know people who are sick or ill or having difficulties. And you want your family to be safe. And many of us are not with our families because we're in different locations.”
“I think there was at the beginning, I definitely felt a very clear sense of what I knew I wanted to do even as an artist, as a piano player, as a woman, as a writer, as a creator of my own sound. I knew that I didn't want to dilute that. Even when I spoke to you that first time on the show, you were like, you write all your things.”
“He said, Mom, you being mean to me. I said, I'm not being mean to you. You have to do this particular thing. You got to do it, E. So let's come on and do it.”
“My family is good. We're good. We're healthy and we're feeling well. My youngest Genesis is a homebody anyway. So it took me so much to get him out the house anyway. So he couldn't be happier. And the older ones are definitely missing their friends and just asking, what's going on and how long do you think it's going to be going on?”
Angie Martinez IRL: “Alicia Keys”
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