Multi-Platinum Selling Songstress Alicia Keys Graces the Cover of Uptown Magazine's Fall Style Issue

Multi-Platinum Selling Songstress Alicia Keys Graces the Cover of Uptown Magazine's Fall Style Issue

Fall Style Issue marks a double in ad pages and will be the first issue distributed on newsstands nationwide through a new deal with Kable News.

NEW YORK, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Grammy award winning recording artist Alicia Keys is featured on the cover and in an in-depth interview inside the Fall Style Issue of Uptown Magazine which hits newsstands this week.

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The article delves into the creation of her new album, As I Am, which will be released on the J Records label on November 13, 2007. Keys talks of her journey to Africa "To find herself" and the emotional road that was the musical inspiration for her current project.

Throughout the piece, Keys speaks candidly about confronting her long estranged father and her battle to overcome depression. "I had to learn to let go," says Ms. Keys in the article and goes on to reveal that she had to "pray at least three times a day" during her search for self.

   Other features included in the Fall Style issue include:   -- A profile of stylist to the stars June Ambrose   -- A travelers guide to Tokyo, Japan   -- Over 30 pages of home, style and fashion coverage   -- An interview with super producer Swizz Beatz   -- A look at the legendary career of dance music diva Grace Jones   

Previously distributed in only New York, Atlanta, Chicago and Washington DC -- The Fall Style issue of Uptown will be distributed on national newsstands through a recently inked deal with Kable News Distributors.

"This deal represents another step toward introducing the world to the Uptown brand. Our consumers are in many markets that we were not represented until now," says Brett Wright, Uptown's Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer. "We have seen our advertising pages double over the last two years, and now distribution growth will enable us to build on our vision and deliver even further for our clients."

Some of the advertisers in the Fall issue include: Cover Girl, Infiniti, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Gaultier Fragrances, Hennessy, Remy, Budweiser, American Airlines, Antigua and Barbuda tourism, VH1, BET J and TV One.

UPTOWN Magazine is a quarterly upscale lifestyle magazine focused on affluent urbanites in the US and published by Uptown Media Ventures. UPTOWN features regular sections on fashion & style, home, business, philanthropy, cuisine, music and the arts as well as the latest events in the upscale marketplace. Uptown magazine is bought to life on the web at www.uptown-magazine.com.

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