Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Keys ta lashe Kyautar R&B Video don "Idan Ba Ni da Ku ba" a 2004 MTV Video Music Awards; ta yi waƙar da "Higher Ground" tare da Lenny Kravitz da Stevie Wonder. Daga baya a wannan shekarar, Keys ta fitar da littafinta na Tears for Water: Songbook of Poems and Lyrics, tarin waƙoƙin da ba a sake su ba daga jaridun ta da waƙoƙin ta. Sunan ya samo asali ne daga ɗayan waƙoƙin ta, "Love and Chains" daga layin: "Ba na damu da shan hawayen na don ruwa". Ta ce taken shine tushen rubuce-rubucen ta saboda "duk abin da na taɓa rubutawa ya samo asali ne daga hawayen farin ciki, na ciwo, na baƙin ciki, na baƙin ciki, har ma da tambaya". An sayar da littafin sama da dalar Amurka 500,000 kuma Keys ya shiga cikin jerin mafi kyawun New York Times a cikin 2005. A shekara mai zuwa, ta lashe lambar yabo ta biyu a jere don Mafi kyawun R&B Video a MTV Video Music Awards don bidiyon "Karma". Keys ya yi "Idan Ba Ni da Ku ba" sannan kuma ya shiga Jamie Foxx da Quincy Jones a cikin fassarar "Georgia on My Mind", waƙar Hoagy Carmichael da Ray Charles ya shahara a 1960 a Grammy Awards na 2005. A wannan maraice, ta lashe lambar yabo ta Grammy guda hudu: Mafi kyawun Mace R&B Vocal Performance don "Idan Ba Ni da Ku ba", Mafi kyawun R&B Song don "Ba ku San Sunayena ba", Mafi kyawun R&B Album don The Diary of Alicia Keys, da Mafi kyawun R&B Performance ta Duo ko Group tare da Vocals" don "My Boo" tare da Usher. Keys ya yi da kuma rikodin ta na MTV Unplugged jerin a Yuli 2005 a Brooklyn Academy of Music. A lokacin wannan zaman, Keys ta kara sabbin shirye-shirye ga wakokinta na asali kuma ta yi wasu zaɓaɓɓun murfin. An saki zaman a kan CD da DVD a watan Oktoba 2005. Kawai mai taken Unplugged, kundin ya fara a lamba ɗaya a kan US Billboard 200 ginshiƙi tare da raka'a 196,000 da aka siyar a cikin makon farko na fitowa. Kundin ya sayar da kwafi miliyan daya a Amurka, inda RIAA ta tabbatar da Platinum, da kwafi miliyan biyu a duk duniya. Farkon Keys 'Unplugged ya kasance mafi girma ga wani MTV Unplugged album tun Nirvana ta 1994 MTV Unplugged a New York da kuma na farko Unplugged da mace artist to fara a...  Tambaya: Menene aka bayyana dalla-dalla a littafin Key da aka fitar a shekara ta 2004?
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