When Alicia Keys performed at the 2019 iHeart Music Awards, she surprised the crowd by bringing her son, Egypt, out as a special guest performer. He sat down and played the piano as Keys sang while seated beside him. A few years later, the “Show Me Love” artist reflected on the emotional collaboration. “That moment was the first time that he performed with me on stage, and I remember being completely so wrapped up in him being okay because I asked him to do it,” Keys said in her 2021 docu-series “Noted: Alicia Keys the Untold Story.” She added, “I was so nervous for him that I remember at midnight the night before the show, I realized I hadn’t even practiced.” That may have been their first time sharing the stage, but it was not their last.
Keys and Egypt made their show an international affair when he took the stage during her performance in Germany in June 2022. “This guy gets on the stage as if there wasn’t 17,000 people out there and just smashes!!” the proud mother wrote in the caption of an Instagram video capturing the show. Fans were blown away by Egypt’s chops. “[R]eminder that egypt is the son of swizz beatz and alicia keys … so basically he’s music incarnate,” one fan wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, after seeing the footage.
Keys is not the only famous musician Egypt has collaborated with.
