Musicians who have changed their name during their career

Al Kapranos was Alex Huntley when he was in the Karelia.

Walter Carlos → Wendy Carlos

for fairly obvious reasons

Phil Elvrum → Phil Elverum

Frickin’ American fathers and their egotistical naming FFS.

snoop

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Puff Daddy - Puffy - P Diddy - Viet Kong - Preoccupations - Diddy

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Smog → Bill Callahan

Sufjan Stevens/ Souljam Sternums

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MF Doom changes his name with almost every release.

Daniel Dumile > Zev Love X > MF Doom > Metal Fingers > Viktor Vaughn > King Geedorah > Madvillain > Dangerdoom > DOOM > JJ DOOM > NehruvianDoom

This doesn’t include his less official collaborations as MA Doom with Masta Ace, Doomstarks with Ghostface Killah, King Dumile with ASM and probably a load of other ones I haven’t heard of.

Paul McCartney → “Paul McCartney”

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Gonna be really pedantic and say that about half those are names of collaborations but yeah it’s true, he loves an alias

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Thee Oh Sees, Oh Sees, OCS, Orinoka Crash Suite, Orange County Sound, The Ohsees, The Oh Sees - not sure on the order.

Also, The Easy Cure, The Cure, Cure, The Cure

David Robert Jones → David Bowie → Ziggy Stardust → the Thin White Duke → Mr Fascist → Bowie → Major Tom → who? → Tin Machine → no, really, who? → Bowie Bonds → :eight_pointed_black_star:

… James has recorded as AFX, Blue Calx, Bradley Strider, The Universal Indicator, Brian Tregaskin, Caustic Window, The, Smojphace, GAK, Karen Tregaskin, Martin Tressider, PBoD (Phonic Boy on Dope), Polygon Window, Power-Pill, Q-Chastic, Dice Man, The Tuss, and Soit-P.P.

(Courtesy of wikipedia)

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Wolfcastle Acid Crew

(glad someone did RDJ, he’s surely top 5 in number of pseudonyms)

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The B-52’s → The B-52s

I’m not kidding. The dropping of the apostrophe was apparently a considered decision.

Josh Homme
Baby Duck
Carlo Von Sexron
J.Ho
Ginger Elvis
DP Pete
Zombie Zebra
Joshua Homme

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You forgot “twat”

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Lol!

how did the original come about? was it poor grammar or a joke?