No disrespecting the amazing, inimitable M.I.A., but in case you're still missing Artist Of The Week ex-officio Alicia Keys, check out Entertainment Weekly's Alicia Keys cover story, which details her emotional and spiritual journey to becoming a "Superwoman" (or as close as anyone's ever gonna get), including the illness and ultimate death of a family member, the support of her long-time boyfriend, and a late-2006 head-clearing trip to Egypt.
Alicia elaborated on her Egyptian retreat, telling London's Times Online, "I sailed down the Nile, slept underneath the stars, and I heard them start praying at 4am. I went inside the Great Pyramid and climbed to the top. The guy I was with got them to hold the other people back so I could be alone just for a minute, and I sang – I don’t know what, just whatever came into my head – and it sounded so beautiful."
The Entertainment Weekly article also discusses the total-pro focus she used to make it through her 2007 VMA performance (which was the first time she performed "No One") despite the infamous, simultaneous Tommy Lee-Kid Rock mash up. (For the record, Tommy Lee did apologize to Alicia.)
Read the EW story, watch her haunting "Like You'll Never See Me Again" video below, and don't miss her live performance this Thursday, Nov. 29. on TRL.