Alicia Keys shares the inspiration behind her stage name

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00:00It's a really long name, and it just didn't have a ring.

00:02You know what I mean? It didn't have a ring to it.

00:04So I'm looking through the dictionary. I was desperate.

00:06I was like, I can't think of anything. I'm looking through the dictionary.

00:08I'm like, come on, the dictionary has to have the name.

00:10Every word is in here, and I get all the way to W.

00:14And I was like, Wilde.

00:16How about Alicia Wilde?

00:21And my mother was like,

00:23I sound like a stripper.

00:26And I was like,

00:27that does kind of sound like a stripper a little bit, huh?

00:29I don't think it's a bad name. I like it.

00:31I do. I can't ever hear anything but

00:33what your name is.

00:35Which is not wild, as we know.

00:38So Keys came from actually a dream.

00:41So even better story.

00:43Keys came from a dream.

00:44A person who was working with me super closely,

00:46Michael Malden, from the beginning.

00:48I was in Columbia studying,

00:51and he texted me on my pager.

00:53And I go down and go to the phone.

00:55He was like, I just had a dream.

00:57I was looking.

00:59From my briefcase, it was locked.

01:01And I couldn't find the keys to my briefcase.

01:02And I'm running around looking for the keys,

01:04looking for the keys.

01:05And I woke up and I thought,

01:07Alicia Keys.

01:08I was looking.

01:10I was looking.

01:12I was looking.

01:13And I thought,

01:14I was looking.