Names -> Music Performer Pseudonyms -> Latest Entries
This is a list of names of famous people, who have changed their real name. I'm only looking for music performers, not actors or other famous people. Below are the most recent entries.
The 20 most recent entries are listed below. There are 3976 Music Performer Pseudonyms entries on the site.
Pseudonym | Original Name | Description | Submitted by: | |||
| Kristin Chenoweth | Kristi Chenoweth | Her first name originally did not have the final "-n". When she trained to be an opera singer, she decided that "Kristin" sounded more "operatic" than "Kristi", so she added the "-n". | Diana Jasper | |||
| Dee D. Jackson | Deirdre Elaine Cozier | British singer who had a hit with the electronic disco song "Automatic Lover" in 1978. | Dylan Baranski | |||
| Voltaire | Aurelio Voltaire Hernández | He took his stage name from the pen name of author: François-Marie Arouet. Voltaire's a goth musician, animation and comic artist, and is a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York. | Lisa | |||
| Blacky | Jean-Yves Theriault | Voivod original bass player | noiro | |||
| Shaun Morgan | Shawn Morgan Welgemoed | During an Interview with Shaun, he was asked how to pronounce Welgemoed. Someone has posted that it is pronounced Vel-ge-mo-de and that's wrong according to Shaun's own words below.. darkstar: How exactly do you pronounce Shaun’s real last name [Welgemoed, which he changed to Morgan because people had trouble pronouncing the former]? Shaun: Vel-heh-mut. It’s Dutch. It’s German and Dutch. The “g” - it’s kinda like you have to clear your throat, you know? | Teresa | |||
| Billy J. Kramer | William Ashton | The last name, Kramer, was selected for him by a telephone operator whom he called to help him find a suitable stage name. | Barry Disbrow | |||
| John Paul Jones | John Baldwin | When he was a kid, a friend of his saw a poster for a movie about the famous American pioneer, John Paul Jones, and suggested it to Jones as a good stage name. It stuck. | Linkletter | |||
| Eminem | Marshall Bruce Mathers III | PersonUDon'tKnow44 | ||||
| Bono | Paul David Hewson | Bono attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School, a multi denominational school in Clontarf. During his childhood and adolescence, Bono and his friends were part of a surrealist street gang called "Lypton Village". This group of friends began performing in public places, such as buses, to provoke people. Bono met one of his closest friends Guggi in Lypton Village. The gang had a ritual of nickname-giving. Bono had several names: first, he was "Steinvic von Huyseman", then just "Huyseman", then "Houseman", then "Bon Murray", "Bono Vox of O'Connell Street", and finally just "Bono". "Bono Vox" is an alteration of Bonavox, a Latin phrase which translates to "good voice." It is said he was nicknamed "Bono Vox" by his friend Gavin Friday, after a hearing aid shop they regularly passed in Dublin's Talbot Street because he sang so loudly he seemed to be singing for the deaf. Initially, Bono disliked the name. However, when he learned it loosely translated to "good voice", he accepted it. Hewson has been known as "Bono" since the late seventies. Although he uses Bono as his stage name, close family and friends also refer to him as Bono, including his wife and fellow band members | Meehan | |||
| Slash | Saul Hudson | He was given the nickname "Slash" by family friend Seymour Cassel, according to whom Saul "was always in a hurry, zipping around from one thing to another. | Meehan | |||
| Sting | Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner | Having played in jazz/rock bands like "Last Exit" and other various groups, including a dixieland jazz group, where he got the name "Sting" from a yellow/black striped shirt. | Meehan | |||
| DJ Eclipse | Joe Pecora | DJ Eclipse | ||||
| DJ Eclipse | Joseph Pecora | Joseh Pecora | ||||
| Vlad Drac | Mike Patton | Patton selected this pseudonym for his credit as "the vocalist" on Mr. Bungle's first album (as did all of the band members) | Agrimorfee | |||
| Vin Diesel | Mark Vincent | Has a twin brother named Paul Vincent. Changed his name. He thought it was to plain, and had been using his real name prior while looking for work and BREAK DANCING .So he took Vin from his last name and came up with Diesel at the gym while changing his look and size. | Kaemarie | |||
| Stanley | Chris Stann | The former (and allegedly homeless) singer of Life, Sex, and Death. | hardrock | |||
| Belouis Some | Neville Keighley | British 80s artist who had a few minor hits with "Some People", "Round and Round", and "Imagination". | British Bullcrap | |||
| Wonder Who | The Four Seasons | The Four Seasons recorded Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, it's All Right" under the pseudonym "The Wonder Who". Don't ask me why... | DeeDee | |||
| Scott Stapp | Anthony Scott Flippin | This was his birth name. He changed his last name to Stapp after his mother got remaried. He switched his first and middle names because his initials would have been A.S.S. | Jessica | |||
| Nick Jonas | Nicholas Jerry Jonas | Jessica |
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