Alicia Keys: Mom Helped Pick Stage Name
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}If it weren't for her mother, Alicia Keys might have a radically different image.
Keys, who has a new album titled "As I Am," says that when she was trying to choose a professional name she went through a dictionary and stopped on the word "wild."
She tells Newsweek in the magazine's Nov. 19 issue that she asked her mother how Alicia Wild sounded to her.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"She said "It sounds like you're a stripper,"' Keys said.
After that, she decided to use Keys.
"It's like the piano keys. And it can open so many doors," said the singer born Alicia Augello-Cook.