Beyonce, Carole King added to Keys' Black Ball

FILE - This May 7, 2012 file photo shows Beyonce Knowles at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala benefit, celebrating Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada in New York. Beyonce and Carole King are joining Oprah Winfrey and Alicia Keys at Keys? annual Black Ball event for Keys? charity Keep a Child Alive on Nov. 1, 2012 at New York?s Hammerstein Ballroom. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)

FILE - This May 7, 2012 file photo shows Beyonce Knowles at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala benefit, celebrating Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada in New York. Beyonce and Carole King are joining Oprah Winfrey and Alicia Keys at Keys? annual Black Ball event for Keys? charity Keep a Child Alive on Nov. 1, 2012 at New York?s Hammerstein Ballroom. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)

FILE - In a Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011 file photo, Carole King attends the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting, in New York. Beyonce and Carole King are joining Oprah Winfrey and Alicia Keys at Keys? annual Black Ball event for Keys? charity Keep a Child Alive on Nov. 1, 2012 at New York?s Hammerstein Ballroom. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)

(AP) ? Call it ladies night: Beyonce and Carole King are joining Oprah Winfrey and Alicia Keys at Keys' annual Black Ball event.

Beyonce and King will perform at the fundraising gala for Keys' charity Keep a Child Alive on Nov. 1 at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom. The night will honor Winfrey and Beninese singer Ang?lique Kidjo for their philanthropic efforts. Keys, Kidjo and rock group Alabama Shakes will also perform. Whoopi Goldberg will be the night's emcee.

In a statement Keys says King has "blazed the trail for women in the music industry," adding about the rest of the line-up: "women will be rocking the house this year."

Keep a Child Alive assists people affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India. The R&B singer launched it in 2003.

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