Alicia Keys has made a shock look in London’s St. Pancras Worldwide station, performing for followers from one in all its pianos.
On Monday (December 11), the singer sat at a black piano that was donated by Sir Elton John to serenade commuters with a number of of her hits, together with ‘Empire State of Thoughts’, ‘If I Ain’t Bought You’ and ‘No One’. As well as, she carried out her newest single, ‘Lifeline’, which she wrote for the upcoming movie adaptation of broadway musical and 1982 novel, The Colour Purple.
In a clip posted by St. Pancras Worldwide station, followers and photographers may be seen surrounding a barricade arrange across the piano, holding up their telephones and cameras as Keys belts ‘No One’. Keys additionally reportedly modified the ‘Empire State of Thoughts’ line “now you’re in New York” to “now you’re in London”, drawing cheers from the gang.
Watch Alicia Keys carry out in St. Pancras Worldwide station beneath:
Alicia Keys is the most recent in a string of artists who’ve carried out temporary units within the station, together with John Legend, Tom Odell and Jeff Goldblum. Final week, Rod Stewart and Jools Holland have been joined by an 18-piece band in entrance of the station’s Christmas tree to carry out songs from their upcoming album, ‘Swing Fever’.
The ‘Empire State of Thoughts’ singer’s look at St. Pancras station follows her look at Capital’s Jingle Bell Ball 2023, which happened at The O2 Area on December 9 and 10 alongside a slate of pop artists together with Tate McRae, Becky Hill, Zara Larsson, Rita Ora, S Membership and Take That.
Keys’ final full-length was 2021’s ‘Keys’, which served as a companion album to her album from the yr earlier than, ‘Alicia’. The 93-minute double album garnered a three-star evaluation from NME, with Nick Levine highlighting its novel idea regardless of its lack of selection, writing: “With some even handed pruning and sharp sequencing, any Keys fan ought to be capable to carve out a fairly satisfying playlist. So, in its personal unintended manner, it’s a double album that works completely for the streaming period.”
In the summertime this yr, Keys launched into the South American leg of her ‘Alicia + Keys World Tour’, earlier than touring North America once more on the 22-date ‘Keys To The Summer season’ tour. Most not too long ago, she lent songs from her again catalogue to a brand new Off-Broadway musical, Hell’s Kitchen, which premiered in New York Metropolis’s The Public Theatre in mid-November.
The official synopsis of Hell’s Kitchen notes the musical revolves round 17-year-old protagonist Ali, who falls in love with a fellow younger musician, prompting “each mom and daughter [to] face exhausting truths about race, defiance, and rising up”.
