Clad in a floor-length red-and-black dress, Keys was all smiles and appeared confident when she and husband Swizz Beatz posed together for photographers at New York City's Madison Square Garden.
In addition to her make-up free face, Keys became one of the highlights of the 2016 MTV VMAs with her tribute to Martin Luther King.
In honour of the 53rd anniversary of the famous "I Have a Dream" speech, she recited a poem about racial and gender equality. She also sang it a capella after delivering the first few verses.
"Every time I left the house, I would be worried if I didn't put on makeup: What if someone wanted a picture?? What if they POSTED it," she wrote.
"These were the insecure, superficial, but honest thoughts I was thinking. And all of it, one way or another, was based too much on what other people thought of me," she added.
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