Keys merie Best R&B Video maka "Ọ bụrụ na m na-adịghị nwetara Ị" na 2004 MTV Video Music Awards; ọ rụrụ na song na "Higher Ground" na Lenny Kravitz na Stevie Wonder. Mgbe e mesịrị na afọ ahụ, Keys wepụtara ya akwụkwọ akụkọ Tears maka Water: Songbook nke Poems na Lyrics, a collection of unreleased poems si ya magazin na lyrics. The aha ewepụtara site na otu n'ime ya uri, "Ịhụnanya na Chains" si akara: "m na-adịghị eche na-aṅụ anya mmiri m maka mmiri". O kwuru na aha bụ ntọala nke ya ide n'ihi na "ihe ọ bụla m na mgbe e dere siworo m anya mmiri nke ọṅụ, nke ihe mgbu, nke ịda mbà n'obi, ọbụna ajụjụ nke Boo". The akwụkwọ rere n'elu US $ 500,000 na The New York Times best seller ndepụta na 2005. The song merie a afọ na MTV Academy: Songbook of Poems na Lyrics, a collection of unreleased poems si ya magazin na lyrics. Mgbe ahụ, Keys wepụtara ya akwụkwọ aha mbụ na July 1994 na mbụ Grammy Awards, a na-
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