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Singer Alicia Keys Admits That's Not Her Real Name
Monday November 12, 2007
![]() Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com Alicia Keys' mom wasn't exactly fallin' for the professional name her daughter initially wanted. The NYC-born singer, 27 — née Alicia Augello-Cook — says that she had a tough time figuring out a professional name, so she began thumbing through the dictionary. She stopped on the word "wild." But when she ran it past mom, "she said, 'It sounds like you're a stripper,'" Keys reveals in the new issue of Newsweek. So she went with Keys. "It's like the piano keys," says Alicia, whose new disc, As I Am, just dropped. "And it can open so many doors." Tell Us: |