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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