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As she prepares for the 2020 Grammy Awards, Keys says her goal is to recreate the atmosphere of classic television variety shows of the past.

\"People who have created these beautiful variety-style shows, like Carol Burnett, or Sammy Davis Jr., or Dean Martin. Nobody does that anymore,\" Keys told Billboard.

\"They had this cool mixture of musician and artist and comedian, so it mixed all of these worlds together in this casual [way], while they’re holding, like, a whiskey. I want to see how to modernize that,\" she added.

You can watch Alicia host the 62nd annual Grammy Awards Sunday, January 26, live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles on CBS.

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