Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Keys akahwina Best R&B Video for "If I Ain't Got You" pa2004 MTV Video Music Awards; akaimba rwiyo uye "Higher Ground" naLenny Kravitz naStevie Wonder. Gare gare gore iroro, Keys akabudisa bhuku rake rinonzi Tears for Water: Songbook of Poems and Lyrics, muunganidzwa wenhetembo dzisina kubudiswa kubva mumabhuku ake nenhetembo. Musoro wacho wakabva pane imwe yenhetembo dzake, "Rudo neMaketani" kubva mumutsetse unoti: "Handina basa nokunwa misodzi yangu semvura". Akati zita racho ndiro hwaro hwokunyora kwake nemhaka yokuti "chinhu chiri chose chandakambonyora chakabva mumisodzi yangu yomufaro, yokurwadziwa, yokusuruvara, yokuora mwoyo, kunyange yomubvunzo". Bhuku racho rakatengeswa neUS$500,000 uye Keys akaita The New York Times runyorwa rwevanotengesa zvikuru muna 2005. Gore rakatevera, akahwina mubairo wechipiri unoteedzana weBest R&B Vhidhiyo paMTV Vhidhiyo Music Awards yevhidhiyo "Karma". Keys akaimba "Kana Ndisina Iwe" uye akabatana naJamie Foxx naQuincy Jones mukudzokorora kwe "Georgia paPfungwa Dzangu", rwiyo rweHoagy Carmichael rwakazozivikanwa naRay Charles muna 1960 pa2005 Grammy Awards. Usiku ihwohwo, akahwina maGrammy Awards mana: Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for "If I Ain't Got You", Best R&B Song for "You Don't Know My Name", Best R&B Album for The Diary of Alicia Keys, and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals" for "My Boo" with Usher.Keys akaita uye akarekodha chikamu chake cheMTV Unplugged akateedzana muna Chikunguru 2005 kuBrooklyn Academy of Music. Munguva yechiitiko ichi, Keys akawedzera marongero matsva kunziyo dzake dzekutanga uye akaita mabutiro mashoma akasarudzika. Musangano wacho wakabudiswa paCD neDVD muna October 2005. Rinongotumidzwa Unplugged, album yacho yakatanga panzvimbo yekutanga paU.S. Billboard 200 chati ine zviuru zana nemakumi mapfumbamwe nezvitanhatu zvakatengeswa muvhiki yayo yekutanga yekuburitswa. Iyo album yakatengesa makopi miriyoni imwe muUnited States, uko yakasimbiswa Platinum neRIAA, uye makopi mamirioni maviri pasi rese. Kutanga kweKeys' Unplugged kwakanga kwakakwirira kwazvo nokuda kweMTV Unplugged album kubvira Nirvana's 1994 MTV Unplugged muNew York uye yekutanga Unplugged nemukadzi muimbi kutanga pa...  Mubvunzo: Chii chakatsanangurwa mubhuku raKey rakabudiswa muna 2004?
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