ALICIA KEYS Wins Global Impact Award | 2025 GRAMMYs Acceptance Speech

stand up stand up it is my honor to present the 2025 Dr Dre Global impact award to the one the only Alicia [Music] Keys like like like creep to the m like aing come on y'all make some noise this girl is on fire y got to recognize a woman's work come on y make [Applause] some I'll give it up for the queen ultimate Trail Blazer this is such a beautiful beautiful night I'm so grateful to be here with you tonight I'm so grateful for this energy in the room tonight the love the community it's a

real thing tonight is a beautiful powerful thing that we are cultivating so I just want to give big love to my brother Dr Dre who created a sound that began a movement and your sound told me that if you're a creative growing going up in Compton or Hell's Kitchen you can touch the world I always had to fight for a certain level of respect as a songwriter a composer and especially a producer it's strange that we don't think of women as producers like Quincy or Dre or swizzy but female producers have always powered the industry

Patrice Russian Missy Elliot Linda Perry Grimes Salange and so many more we stand together so it's a beautiful feeling to be acknowledged for the thing I always thought people didn't really recognize about me this is a beautiful thing I've been blessed to create with some of the most superpowered groundbreaking Risk Takers like teria Joseph my mama and mincieli Desiree Perez Jodie gersan they saw on me what I didn't see in my myself and we started she as the music to open the doors for other women who didn't get the opportunities or credit they deserve so

this is for all the ladies that know the magic that they bring to the room this is not the time to shut down the diversity of voices we've seen on this stage talented hardworking people from different backgrounds rounds with different points of view and it changes the game Dei is not a threat it's a gift and the more voices the more powerful the sounds when destructive forces try to burn us down we Rise From the Ashes Like a Phoenix and as you see tonight music is the Unstoppable language that connects us all it's so beautiful

so let's keep showing up with compassion with empathy what I call Soul Care keep opening the doors the dreams that the world is ought to be a dream that the world as it ought to be as the great Tony Morrison said so thank you for this massive award this massive honor to the academy to the black music Collective to everyone who has ever been touched by the music and the message Clive Davis Anna and akw Dez and my brother Jay-Z team Rock Adam Blackstone Hell's Kitchen the most high my magnificent mother who gave me life

my beautiful kids Egypt Genesis KJ Nicki Nas for sharing me with the world and to my brilliant husband my soulmate and the Ultimate Dream Weaver swizzy [Music] and most importantly to every artist out here tonight you are brilliant look what's happening in this room tonight this room is Unstoppable it's powerful it's uniqueness at its finest so never stop being just like you just like you this is amazing big love and happy birthday to my sister Yoli thank you for seeing me I love you like like it's like that like like it's like like like