Alicia Keys live!

I went to the Alicia Keys concert last night in the HK Asia-World Arena, and I gotta say... that girl has such an AMAZING voice, so soulful and powerful! If you listen to her songs, you can tell that she truly gives it her all. She's beautiful, and of course so talented, she played on a grand piano for many of her songs and she sounded incredible live.

She really made the crowd work hard for the encores, both of them, each time only coming out for one song. Of course we all went wild though when she came back out for the first encore with "No One", everyone in the crowd was really into it even those of us way in the back of the arena. We were all up on our feet singing along and rhythmically throwing our hands in the air to all the "OH OH OH OH!"'s of the song... :) What a blast! Then she came back out with a strong, powerful final performance of "If I Ain't Got You"... preceded by her graciously telling the crowd that she knows that she wouldn't be where she is, here playing in Hong Kong, if it weren't for all of us.

In her song "Superwoman", she has some cool lyrics encouraging and celebrating the strength of woman out there. I love the following lines:  :)

"Even when I'm a mess I still put on a vest With an S on my chest Oh yes I'm a Superwoman"

Our seats were pretty far back and on the ground level though. So me being the shorty that I am and it being just my luck to sit in back of the tallest guy in the row in front of me (of course, Murphy's Law, grrrrr!), I couldn't see the stage at all. :( I spent the entire concert watching the performances from the big screen next to the stage. But it was DEFINITELY worth being there and hearing her sing live, even if I couldn't actually see her. I even ran into quite a few friends at the arena... Marsha, Terence, Steph... lots of Alicia Keys fans. =D

Being so far from the stage, I didn't get to take any photos or videos that were decent enough to post. But here are some YouTube videos (no official videos though, they've disabled the option to embed) of some of my favorite Alicia Keys songs performed live.

"Like You'll Never See Me Again" (my new favorite song!)

Video: http://www.youtube.com/v/dpj9XbwU-bM&hl=en&fs=1

"Superwoman"

Video: http://www.youtube.com/v/zv58O2mqWS0&hl=en&fs=1

"No One"

Video: http://www.youtube.com/v/ZTXPyBoIRuU&hl=en&fs=1

"If I Ain't Got You"

Video: http://www.youtube.com/v/OhJNnxChi70&hl=en&fs=1