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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.
Latest Entries
The 20 most recent entries are listed below. There are 4175 Music Performer Pseudonyms entries on the site.
Pseudonym | Original Name | Description | Submitted by: | |||
| Billy Ocean | Leslie Sebastian Charles | The Ocean part of his stage name comes from the Ocean Estate in London's East End where he was living at the time he was starting his music career. | harderman | |||
| Charlie Gracie | Charles Anthony Graci | He had the hits "Butterfly", "Fabulous", and "I Love You So Much It Hurts", all in 1957. | Candy Welty | |||
| Eugene Wilde | Ronald Eugene Broomfield | He had the hits "Gotta Get You Home Tonight" and "Don't Say No Tonight" in 1985. | Candy Welty | |||
| Dick Roman | Ricardo De Giacomo | He had a hit with a vocal version of "Theme From A Summer Place" in 1962. | Candy Welty | |||
| Kim Weston | Agatha Natalie Weston | She had six hits, 1963-67, including "It Takes Two" (duet with Marvin Gaye, 1967). | Candy Welty | |||
| Jack Hues | Jeremy Allan Ryder | member of Wang Chung. He took the famous French phrase "J'accuse" (the headline of a newspaper editorial by Emile Zola) and "anglicized" it "Jack Hues". | To Live And Die in San Francisco | |||
| O}+> | Prince Rodgers Nelson | jl hatlen linnell | ||||
| Kimbra | Kimbra Lee Johnson | I saw her in the Gotye video. She's cute. | Brian Kelly | |||
| Nick Todd | Nicholas Boone | He had the hits "Plaything" and "At The Hop" in 1957. | Candy Welty | |||
| Pretty Purdie | Bernard Purdie | He had the hit "Funky Donkey" in 1967. | Candy Welty | |||
| Kenny Starr | Kenneth Trebbe | He had the hit "The Blind Man In The Bleachers" in 1975. | Candy Welty | |||
| Regina | Regina Richards | She had the hit "Baby Love" in 1986. | Candy Welty | |||
| Slim Harpo | James Moore | He had two hits: "Rainin' In My Heart" in 1961 and "Baby Scratch My Back" in 1966. | Candy Welty | |||
| Joe Sun | James J. Paulson | He had the hit "Shotgun Rider" in 1980. | Candy Welty | |||
| Damita Jo | Damita Jo DuBlanc | She had four hits, 1960-66. | Candy Welty | |||
| William Bell | William Yarborough | He had six hits, 1962-77, including the million-seller "Tryin' To Love Two" in 1977. | Candy Welty | |||
| Earl-Jean | Earl-Jean McCrae | She had the hit "I'm Into Something Good" in 1964 as a solo singer. She was also a member of The Cookies, who had four hits (1962-63). | Candy Welty | |||
| O.V. Wright | Overton Vertis Wright | He had three hits: "You're Gonna Make Me Cry" in 1965, "Eight Men, Four Women" in 1967, and "Ace Of Spade" in 1970. | Candy Welty | |||
| Tiger Joanie Scott | Joan Koplan | Robert D. Arndt Jr. | ||||
| Joan Koplan | Tiger Joanie Scott | Robert D. Arndt Jr. |
New entries in this section are currently reviewed by Brian Kelly. Previous editors (if any) are listed on the editors page.
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