Billboard, 10/31/05
´Alicia Keys will host and perform at a Thursday (Nov. 3) fundraiser for the AIDS charity ´Keep a child alive´ at New York`s Jazz at Lincoln Center. She will be joined by fellow music heavyweights Usher, Paul Simon, John Mayer and Common at the event, as well as African acts Angelique Kidjo, Baaba Maal, Femi Kuti and the Agape Children`s Choir from Durban, South Africa.
Charityfolks.com is auctioning five tickets that include a pre-show cocktail party and dinner as well as a backstage meet-and-greet. Bidding ends Wednesday.
´Keep a child alive´ works to make medicine more readily available to AIDS-afflicted families in Africa and other countries in need.´ - Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
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