It’s a very long way from their pampered lifestyles in Hollywood.
Alicia Keys and Beyoncé stepped out of their air conditioned limousines to film a music video in a series of impoverished Brazilian shanty towns yesterday.
The pair duet on Keys’ Put It In A Love Song, from her recently released album The Element Of Freedom.
Surrounded by improvised buildings, washing lines and inquisitive children, the divas gave their best pouting performances.
Alicia looked every inch the star in a long white transparent dress over a bathing suit, with her curly hair loose around her shoulders.
She filmed her scenes on the roof of a house in the shadow of Christ The Redeemer in the shanty town of Morro Santa Marta in Rio De Janeiro.
She earlier filmed one segment in Rio’s Dona Marta slum.
It became renowned worldwide after Michael Jackson went there to film the 1996 video They Don’t Care About Us.
Meanwhile Beyoncé wore a green and blue playsuit as she filmed in the Praca Maua square.
And Brazilian television showed the pair singing together in the shantytown of Morro da Conceicao.
It’s the first time the pair have collaborated despite being friends for quite some time.
Alicia is also close with Beyoncé’s husband Jay-Z, and the pair worked together on the 2009 hit Empire State Of Mind.
Alicia told MTV recently: ‘Her and I together was like re-united sisters.
‘Most people get in the studio and don’t get a chance to really collaborate but we were in one room having a ball.’
‘The energy was incredible. Big up to [producer] Swizz Beatz who worked on the track – it was unreal.’
Alicia also said she’s keen for more collaborations.
She says: ‘I would like to work with the Kings Of Leon [and] I like Dizzee Rascal.’
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