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If it weren’t for her mother, Alicia Keys might have a very 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:
“She said, ‘It sounds like you’re a stripper.'”
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.
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Personals was compiled by Kim Profant from Tribune news services and staff reports.
