Rịba ama amaokwu a dị n'okpuru ma zaa ajụjụ ahụ mgbe e mesịrị n'otu asụsụ ahụ dị ka amaokwu ahụ:  Passage: Keys meriri Best R&B Video maka "If I Ain't Got You" na 2004 MTV Video Music Awards; ọ rụrụ abụ na "Higher Ground" na Lenny Kravitz na Stevie Wonder. N'afọ ahụ, Keys wepụtara akwụkwọ akụkọ ya bụ Tears for Water: Songbook of Poems and Lyrics, nchịkọta abụ ndị a na-ewepụtabeghị site na akwụkwọ akụkọ ya na okwu ya. Aha ya sitere n'otu n'ime uri ya, "Love and Chains" site n'ahịrị: "Enweghị m nsogbu ị drinkingụ anya mmiri m maka mmiri". O kwuru na aha ahụ bụ ntọala nke edemede ya n'ihi na "ihe niile m dere na-esite na anya mmiri m nke ọṅụ, nke ihe mgbu, nke mwute, nke ịda mbà n'obi, ọbụna nke ajụjụ". E rere akwụkwọ ahụ ihe karịrị US $ 500,000 na Keys mere The New York Times ndepụta kacha ere ahịa na 2005. N'afọ sochirinụ, o meriri ihe nrite nke abụọ n'usoro maka vidiyo R&B kacha mma na MTV Video Music Awards maka vidiyo "Karma". Keys rụrụ "If I Ain't Got You" wee sonyere Jamie Foxx na Quincy Jones na egwu "Georgia on My Mind", abụ Hoagy Carmichael nke Ray Charles mere ama na 1960 na 2005 Grammy Awards. N'uhuruchi ahụ, o meriri Grammy Awards anọ: Best Female R&B Vocal Performance maka "If I Ain't Got You", Best R&B Song maka "You Don't Know My Name", Best R&B Album maka The Diary of Alicia Keys, na Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals" maka "My Boo" ya na Usher. Keys rụrụ ma kpọọ nke ya nke usoro MTV Unplugged na July 2005 na Brooklyn Academy of Music. N'oge nnọkọ a, Keys gbakwunyere ndokwa ọhụrụ na abụ mbụ ya wee mee mkpuchi ole na ole. E wepụtara nnọkọ ahụ na CD na DVD na Ọktọba 2005. Naanị aha ya bụ Unplugged, album ahụ bidoro na nọmba otu na US Billboard 200 eserese na 196,000 nkeji rere na izu mbụ nke ntọhapụ ya. A na-ere album otu nde na United States, ebe ọ bụ Platinum site na RIAA, na nde abụọ n'ụwa nile. Mbido nke Keys 'Unplugged bụ nke kachasị elu maka album MTV Unplugged kemgbe Nirvana's 1994 MTV Unplugged na New York na mbụ Unplugged site na nwanyị na-ese ihe na-amalite na...  Ajụjụ: Gịnị ka a kọwara n'ụzọ zuru ezu n'akwụkwọ Key bipụtara na 2004?
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