Monday November 12, 2007
Alicia Keys arrives at Conde Nast Media Group's 4th Annual "Black Ball" Concert for "Keep A Child Alive" at Hammerstein Ballroom on October 25, 2007 in New York City.
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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."
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Posted by Alissa R at 7:52 am ET
