On American Idol Wednesday, mutiplatinum-selling recording artist Alicia Keys urged viewers to donate $5 to help fight the AIDS epidemic in Africa and India by supporting her charity Keep a Child Alive’s new Text ALIVE Challenge.
Alicia serves as global ambassador for the campaign, which aims to bring medicine and medical care to victims of HIV and AIDS living in poverty-stricken nations.
Academy Award-winning actress/singer Jennifer Hudson performed her current single, “If This Isn’t Love,” on American Idol – the television talent competition that helped launched her career — on Wed. night.
American Idol Season 2 champ Ruben Studdard returns to the Idol stage on Thursday as part of Motown week and is set to perform his new song “Together,” the lead single from his upcoming fourth album, Love Is, which will be released May 19.