A Sensational Act

Alicia Keys performed in Jakarta to a less-than sell-out crowd. Her performance, however, was mesmerizing, far beyond the walls of the concert hall.

August 5, 2008

SITTING before the Yamaha Grand Piano, Alicia moved her fingers as if they were a group of ballet dancers on the stage—and the notes of a song titled Superwoman were nimbly played on the piano keys. “This song is about you all, the superwomen,” she said. However, it was not this that had actually melted the audience at the Plenary Hall, Jakarta Convention Center, into hysteria. It was her voice that spellbound them, including every time she

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