Keys moved by pupils' African performance
05/04/2005 - 12:12:56R&B star Alicia Keys was moved to tears during a visit to an American school on Thursday - because the pupils celebrated their African heritage by singing in Swahili and wearing traditional kente clothes.
The Grammy Award winner visited Chicago's Betty Shabazz International Charter School - a public school which has an Afrocentric curriculum - to support the Frum The Ground Up project, which aims to make Afro-American children proud of their African roots and culture.
And she was overwhelmed when 300 pupils performed a traditional song for her.
She told them: "I am honoured to be here today with you celebrating me as I am celebrating you.
"To see a place that's really connected to something, holds onto traditions, I've never seen that anywhere."
