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Alicia Keys made her debut onto the tune scene in 2001 along with her signature braided hairstyle that used to be mimicked by way of younger girls around the nation. Decades later, Keys has mentioned that she nonetheless loves dressed in braids and expressing her natural taste.

In a new interview with Glamour UK, she mentioned that natural hair “is this sort of beautiful expression of our individuality and deserves to be respected.”

Keys also mentioned that she is “pleased with dressed in braids and I like finding out about the power of hair.”

“I’ve all the time felt royal after I put on braids. There’s something so gorgeous concerning the Blackness of it, about my African ancestry that I simply really feel in reality connected to.”

The artist’s appreciate extends towards the analysis of Black hair historical past and reveling within the extensive wisdom to be had. “I learn a ebook as soon as that was our story [and historical past] thru hair and via braids, and I learnt how in each tribe, your position used to be in reality advised during the style during which you wore your hair; and we should accept the uniqueness of it. There’s surely numerous freaking messed-up hair tradition that exists.”

According to Africa.com, hair used to be an import facet of the culture of historic African civilizations. It “symbolized one’s circle of relatives background, social status, spirituality, tribe, and marital status.”

“As early because the 15th century,” in numerous tribes, hair was used to display an individual’s social hierarchy. Royalty wore elaborate hairstyles to denote their stature.

Later this yr, Keys has additionally performed an excellent quantity of study in the liberate of her own lifestyle beauty brand, Keys Soulcare. The brand used to be motivated by means of her experiences with controlling her zits.

“I’ve all the time had a difficult time with my skin and having to determine how to manage it, and be within the spotlight,” Keys said.

“Having to constantly be in this loopy cycle of placing on makeup to duvet the bumps and scars and then as a result of I had makeup on beneath the new lighting fixtures, there were extra bumps and scars. I felt like I had to cover the whole thing and I felt in reality self-conscious.”

Keys sooner or later discovered that her outer appearance was once much less than necessary than inner peace and figuring out. “For me good looks is in regards to the soul and the guts and the spirit and what comes via you, comes out of you. And so it’s extra than just the outside,” Keys stated. “It’s a deep conversation about who we're and who we wish to be and where we’re going. It’s a passion of mine, a deep interest of mine that has been years within the making.”

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