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Unplugged (Alicia Keys album)

2005 live album by Alicia Keys

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Unplugged is the first live album by American singer-songwriter Alicia Keys. It was released on October 7, 2005 by J Records. Recorded as part of the television program MTV Unplugged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on July 14, 2005, the album comprises tracks from her first two studio albums, Songs in A Minor (2001) and The Diary of Alicia Keys (2003), alongside several covers and previously unreleased songs.

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“Unplugged (Alicia Keys album)” enters the record as 2005 live album by Alicia Keys. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Unplugged, Alicia and Keys can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2001, 2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Unplugged, Alicia and Keys.
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“Unplugged (Alicia Keys album)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Unplugged, Alicia and Keys provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2005, 2001 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Unplugged (Alicia Keys album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.