R&B TIDBITS: KELLY ROWLAND, ALICIA KEYS, LEONA LEWIS & KEYSHIA COLE....

Click on the picture on the left to view Kelly Rowland (and Snoop) on the set of her new video Ghetto. The new video is set to premiere tomorrow on Access Granted. After seven months since her first video debuted, can this latest new single of hers make a difference to her poorly sold numbers or have they left it too little too late? Alicia Keys is prepping herself up to perform her new lead single No One at the VMA's later today. No One was written and produced by her longtime collaborator/partner Kerry "Krucial" Brothers and Dirty Harry. The Justin Francis-directed video for No One was recently shot in LA and will premiere on September 17. So that's something to look forwards to. When Leona Lewis was out in Atlanta and LA recording her debut album, she worked with Ne-yo. Here's what she wrote in a recent blog entry: "The time with Ne-yo in the studio was so great, he's so funny and great to work with! We recorded a track called 'I'm You' and he even put some BVs on the track too. Can't wait for you all to hear it too!". I can't wait to hear it too, but then it'll probably sound like everything else he's produced like Beyonce's "Irreplaceable" and Rihanna's "Hate That I Love You". Keyshia Cole is in the October issue of Essence magazine and here's a sneak peak. Once the high quality scans are available they will surely be posted. Meanwhile, here's an extract from the interview where she discusses those constant Mary J Blige comparisons: "I feel like we are very similar based on everything we've been through in our personal lives. It's helped make us sing the way we sing. Because she didn't have a vocal coach, and neither did I. And when I met her I told her, 'You winning all those Grammy's—congratulations—it gives me inspiration to this day that maybe I can do the same thing.' You know, it's just a real big life circle. I think there are a lot of things that she could tell me that'd help me. I'm not trying to take nobody's place or nothing like that. But I'm just saying, as a woman—as a young Black woman—if she knows some of the answers, Give 'em to me! (Laughing.) But she said that I could call her anytime. I just haven't done it yet".

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