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Names -> Music Performer Pseudonyms -> V

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.

Entries Beginning with V

Pseudonym		Original Name		Description		Submitted by:
Vainqueur		Rene Lowe				Bobo
Valdy		Valdemar Horsdal		Canadian musician.		Canadian
Van Cliburn		Harvey Lavan Cliburn, Jr.		Famous t.v. record offer pianist.		pianist
Van Gough		Micheal Pritchard		This is Mike, the Bass Player of Green Day, when he plays in "The Network"		Chess Owen
Van Morrison		George Ivan Morrison				oldsongs
Vanessa		Conny Breukhoven				Jesse
Vangelis		Evanghelos Odyssey Papathanassiou		No wonder he changed the name. Nobody could spell it.		electric
Vanilla Ice		Robert Van Winkle				Celeste
Vanilla Ice		Robert Van Winkle				inthe80s.com
Vanity		Denise Mathews		Denise Smith was her married name a few years ago she was married to a Football player but since has divorced. Thanks this is a great site...		Samuelle King
Vanity		Denise Katrina Smith				soul
Vanity		Denise Matthews				nasty
Varg Vikernes		Kristian Vikernes		Along with what *lord667* said, here's some additional information: Varg also called himself "Count Grishnackh." (sometimes misspelled by the press as Grischnacht/Grishnackt/etc) He was the brains of the band Burzum. He killed Euronymous from Mayhem.		cwenz
Varg Vikernes		Kristian Vikernes		Changed "Kristian" because it sounded, well, Christian. "Varg" is a term for an outlaw, with historical roots in words like "morthvargr" for "murderer". It can also mean "wolf".		lord667
Various Artists		Thorsten Profrock				Bobo
Vast		Jon Crosby		One man band from Humboldt County, CA.		Bobo
Vera Lynn		Vera Margaret Welsh		She had seven hits on the American charts and nine hits on the British charts in the 1950s.		Candy Welty
Vera-Ellen		Vera-Ellen Westmeyr Rohe				old
The Veronicas		Jessica and Lisa Origliasso				Zakery "The Weird Man" Wood
Vic Damone		Vito Farinola				old
Vicentico		Gabriel Fernandez Capello		Band leader and Singer of the Argentine band "Los Fabulosos Cadillacs"		Tulem
Victor Borge		Borge Rosenbaum		The late, great comedian-pianist.		classic
Victor Borge		Børge Rosenbaum				Bobo
Victor Borge		Rosenbaum Børge				Bobo
Victoria Louise Lott		Pixie Lott		Born name		Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Vikki Carr		Florencia Casillas				Cara Miles
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
Vince Gill		Vincent Grant Gill		Ironically, married to singer Amy Grant.		Countryboy
Vince Neil		Vince Neil Wharton		Lead singer for Motley Crue.		heavymetal
Vincent Edwards		Vincento Eduardo Zoine		He had two hits in 1962: "Why Did You Leave Me?" and "Don't Worry 'Bout Me".		Candy Welty
Vinnie Paul		Vince Abbott		drummer for PANTERA		James Marshall Gaddis
Vinnie Vincent		Vincent Cusano		Former lead guitarist for Kiss (known in makeup as the Egyptian Warrior) from 1982 to 1983; also from the Vinnie Vincent Invasion		Vic George
Vintersorg		Andreas Hedlund		"Vintersorg" is the Swedish term "winter sorrow". This Swedish metal vocalist fronts a variety of viking, folk and death metal bands such as Cosmic Death, Borknagar and a band under his own name, Vintersorg.		Kyle
Violent J		Joseph Bruce		From Insane Clown Posse.		rapper
Violent J		Joseph Bruce		Shaggy 2 Dope's name is Joseph too but I forgot the last name.		Tori
Violent J		Joseph Bruce		Both members of ICP have the same first name!...Don't get em mixed up!		Megan
violent jay		joe bruce		it's his stage name for the band insane clown posse but he is still joe bruce only many people know him as violent jay		HatchetRyda
Virgil Nameless		John Dankworth		Pseudonym used on some early Cleo Laine albums.		Gordon Sapsed
Vitamin C		Colleen Fitzpatrick		She used to be in a band called "Eve's Plum" before she went solo		Danielle
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
Vlad Drac		Mike Patton		The ex-Faith No more singer performed under the name Vlad Drac on his first Mr Bungle album.		Dry-Lie
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
Vrangsinn		Daniel Salte		Bassist for black metal band Carpathian Forest. The name Vrangsinn means "pervert" [vrang = sick, sinn = mind] and he's fully lived up to it. Recently, he's changed his last name to Vrangsinn.		T.A.P. Warlord

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