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Alicia Keys to speak at Barack Obama re-election campaign event
Written by . Published: July 13 2012
Alicia Keys is giving President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign a big boost by speaking at a special event in Pennsylvania next week (begs16Jul12) to rally support from female voters.
The Empire State of Mind hitmaker will address attendees at the Women 2012 Vote Summit in Philadelphia on Monday (16Jul12) and encourage ladies to become more politically active.
Keys wants her fellow females to make their voices heard in the
upcoming elections as their votes will be key in the race for the
White House between the Democrat or his Republican rival, Mitt
Romney.
The singer previously threw her support behind Obama for his 2008
presidential campaign.