Don’t forget to tune in tonight to SHOWTIME Channel at 9pm ET to catch “Keep a Child Alive with Alicia Keys” documentary. If you can’t see it tonight, here’s the schedule for re-airings:

12/01 Thu – 11:30 pm ET (SHO 2)
12/03 Sat – 6:00 pm ET (SHOWTIME SHOWCASE)
12/04 Sun – 3:45 pm ET (SHO 2)
12/06 Tue – 4:00 pm ET (SHOWTIME SHOWCASE)
12/07 Wed – 5:15 pm ET (SHO 2)
12/10 Sat – 1:15 pm ET (SHO 2)
12/12 Mon – 10:50 am ET (SHOWTIME SHOWCASE)
12/14 Wed – 2:50 pm ET (SHOWTIME)
12/15 Thu – 10:30 am ET (SHOWTIME SHOWCASE)

Alicia Keys proclaimed that she was in an “Empire State of Mind” in her hit anthem with rapper Jay-Z. But recently, her outlook has been more global.

Keys, a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, is the co-founder of Keep a Child Alive, a nonprofit that offers support to children and families affected by HIV and AIDS in Africa and India. The native New Yorker is featured in a new documentary called “Keep a Child Alive with Alicia Keys” for which she took five young Americans on a tour of places in South Africa that have been hit hard by HIV and AIDS. The documentary airs on Showtime on Dec. 1.

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Alicia Keys still can’t shake some of the things she saw while visiting AIDS-ravaged communities in Africa.

Ms. Keys, a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, is the co-founder of Keep a Child Alive, a nonprofit that offers support to children and families affected by HIV and AIDS in Africa and India. To help publicize the organization’s work, Ms. Keys is appearing in a new documentary for which she took five young Americans on a tour of places in South Africa that have been hit hard by HIV and AIDS.

During the trip, Ms. Keys and her guests met with children who were forced to head households because their parents had been incapacitated or killed by the disease; they also visited communities that had banded together to try to deal with the health crisis. The special, “Keep a Child Alive with Alicia Keys,” will air on Showtime on Dec. 1.

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Fourteen-time Grammy Award-winning artist Alicia Keys, 30, had her first baby more than a year ago, a handsome bundle of joy named Egypt. He has “the most perfect eyes and beautiful nose, the sweetest lips, and skin so soft and kissable! Never have I felt such disbelief, such awe, humility, godliness, such strength, power, and possibility,” the singer gushes about her son on her blog. Keys and her husband, music producer, rapper, and entrepreneur Swizz Beatz, 33, chose the unusual moniker as a nod to the enduring power of the ancient pyramids built more than two millennia ago in Africa.

Long before Keys fully understood the enduring power of a parent’s love, she found the massive scale of suffering among the world’s children too dire to ignore. After touring impoverished South Africa for the first time eight years ago, she saw up close how that suffering compounds when HIV is involved.

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Alicia performed yesterday at the 8th annual Black Ball Gala in support of Keep A Child Alive. She shared the stage together with some of the guests including Usher and will.I.Am. Check our gallery for more pictures from the event.

Alicia Keys performed hit songs, covers and collaborated with Usher and will.i.am at her charity’s annual event, but the singer also played the role of a charmer.

During an auction to raise money for Keep a Child Alive, Keys took off two 18-carat gold bracelets and put them up for bid. Once someone agreed to buy the items for $14,000, a light bulb seemed to switch in her brain. “Wait a minute, I have an idea. I was just thinking, since I have two that we could sell one to you for $14,000, and one to you for $14,000,” she said, pointing at two different people. “Isn’t that a great idea?” The crowd cheered her on.

Arrival

Backstage

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To commemorate World AIDS Day, SHOWTIME will premiere “KEEP A CHILD ALIVE WITH ALICIA KEYS,” a powerful documentary that bears witness to the AIDS pandemic in South Africa, on Thursday, December 1st at 9:00 PM (ET/PT). The film follows five Americans (Talaina Brown, Kristen Dyer, Rachel Hathaway, Aaron McCoy, and Sonya Soni) who won the chance to travel with music superstar and AIDS advocate Alicia Keys, to Keep a Child Alive’s funded sites in South Africa, during the exhilarating atmosphere of the first World Cup on African soil. Through their eyes, with Keys as their guide, the film chronicles the incredible beauty of the people they encounter and the sorrow they witness as they meet the faces of the statistics; the 5.7 million people currently living with HIV and the 15 million AIDS orphans, in Africa alone.

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Last night Alicia Keys attended the Keep A Child Alive Black Ball UK in London where she raised money for her organization Keep A Child Alive.

Check out the gallery from last time when Alicia performed at Hope Rising! benefit concert in Toronto.

When Stephen Lewis sought supporters for his Hope Rising! benefit concert in Toronto on Tuesday, he could think of no better headliner than Grammy-winning artist Alicia Keys. As the co-founder of the non-profit organization Keep a Child Alive, which provides medicine to families with HIV and AIDS in Africa, she was already passionately involved in the same causes as the Stephen Lewis Foundation. Of course, she’s also a huge celebrity whose star power would help sell tickets for the fundraising event, said Lewis, a former UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa. But Keys is also the rare celebrity that puts a cause ahead of her own interests, he added.

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