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Alicia Keys performs during Champions League final opening ceremony during the UEFA Champions League Final match between Real Madrid and Club Atletico de Madrid at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza on May 28, 2016 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images)

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Those of you who tuned in to NBC’s “The Voice” on Sunday night may have noticed something a little unusual: a celebrity, on network television, sans makeup.

Alicia Keys, one of Season 11’s judges/coaches, says she no longer wears makeup, a decision she described publicly in May: “I don’t want to cover up anymore. Not my face, not my mind, not my soul, not my thoughts, not my dreams, not my struggles, not my emotional growth. Nothing.”

Keys’s bare, freckled face has garnered some attention before Sunday’s one-hour preview of “The Voice,” Season 11. She was photographed on the red carpet of the BET Awards in June, when about 7 million viewers tuned into the show, which also featured Keys performing.

But now an even bigger audience will regularly see Keys’s makeup-free face on the NBC series, which drew just over 13 million viewers last season. Perhaps it’s fitting that Keys will be on a show premised on celebrity coaches choosing singers blindly so the decisions “are based solely on voice and not on looks.”

The process that led Keys to alter her public image came after years of fame and feeling insecure, as she wrote in Lena Dunham’s “Lenny Letter”:

I was finally uncovering just how much I censored myself, and it scared me. Who was I anyway? Did I even know HOW to be brutally honest anymore? Who I wanted to be?

I didn’t know the answers exactly, but I desperately wanted to.

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FOR WOMEN ONLY: Why Alicia Keys Is No Longer Wearing Makeup  was originally published on praisecleveland.com