Former first lady Michelle Obama made an appearance at the Billboard Music Awards to praise singer-songwriter Alicia Keys as a “leader on social justice.”
Obama, who has long praised the artist, said Keys “has amazed us again and again in so many ways” during her taped appearance at the awards show in Los Angeles, California.
“Alicia is not just an artist. She’s also an advocate for women and families around the world, a leader on social justice, a wife, a mentor, a mother, but most of all, she is herself. … In bearing her true self, she calls us all to do the same in our own lives and for each other,” the former first lady said.
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Obama said Keys “inspires” herself and her daughters, Malia and Sasha, while calling Keys’s songs “edgy and soulful, graceful yet raw.”
.@MichelleObama welcomes @aliciakeys to the #BBMAs stage !!! pic.twitter.com/n51cfEfBgD
— Billboard Music Awards (@BBMAs) May 24, 2021
Keys performed her greatest hits at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards with live renditions of “A Woman’s Worth,” “How Come You Don’t Call Me,” and “Fallin’.” She has won nine Billboard Music Awards in her career.
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