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* Nina Sky is also a pair of twins not one person.
** Also ''City and Colour.'' His real name is Dallas Green.
* People often ask members of the band ''[[Hootie and
** The name, ''Hootie and the Blowfish'', was actually taken from Darius's friends ("Hootie" has round eyes, while "Blowfish" would puff up his cheeks like a blowfish).
*** The moral of this story: Never name a band (even partially) after someone whose nickname sounds like it could be a collective noun.
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* Similarly, there are only three people in Ben Folds Five. One of them, however, is actually Ben Folds. When asked why they go by the name "Ben Folds Five" when there were only three members, Folds replied "Because Ben Folds Three sounds dumb." Ben Folds has since broken up with the five, and tours with two other musicians under the name of ''Ben Folds''.
* [[Billy Talent]] contains no person named William Talent. They're named after a character from the Canadian ''[[This Is Spinal Tap]]'' homage ''[[Hard Core Logo]]''.
* In one episode of the American ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]?'', Ryan Stiles referred to Kid Rock as a band. After Drew Carey pointed out that he's "[[I Am the Band|just one guy]]", they spent the rest of the episode joking about the mix-up.
** Other than that, this is surprisingly rare, perhaps because of how Kid Rock's first hit, "Bawitdaba", [[This Is Sparta|opened]]...
** The band is actually the Twisted Brown Trucker band.
* Originally [[
** Before the band broke up, they referenced this trope in the song "Be My Lover":
{{quote| ''She asked me why the singer's name was Alice, I said listen baby you really wouldn't understand''}}
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*** And, [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|tragically]], Jay was the first to go.
* "Cascada" refers to the German eurodance band, not the singer. The singer's name is Natalie Horler, and the rest of the band consists of producers Manuel Reuter ("DJ Manian") and Yann Piefer ("Yanou").
* Even though the name [[Blondie (
* Strangely, many people think [[Roxette]] is the stage name of female performer Marie Fredriksson rather than the name of the band she is in. This is despite the fact that her partner Per Gessle sings lead on almost half the band's hits.
* Country Joe and the Fish had a member named Joe and the band was named. Later on, as the band broke up and there were only two remaining members, he became known as Country Joe McDonald and the other guy as The Fish.
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* None of the members of The Marshall Tucker Band were named Marshall Tucker. They found the name on a discarded receipt in a bar.
** The real Marshall Tucker was a blind piano tuner.
* Only 2 of the original 6 members of [[
** On the other hand, it was an accurate name: it's the band started by the Allman Brothers.
* None of The Statler Brothers were named Statler and just 2 of them were actually brothers.
** Music has lots and LOTS of examples of this, including the Righteous Brothers and the Thompson Twins (actually a trio originally and nobody with a name of Thompson).
* Never mind that [[Jamiroquai]] is basically [[I Am the Band|lead singer Jay Kay's show]]. It's the name of the ''band'', not the guy in the [[Nice Hat|fuzzy chapeau]].
* It's a shame [[
* Nobody in the band Herman's Hermits was named Herman. The guy people usually refer to as Herman is actually lead singer Peter Noone.
** Plus, they all lived in modern dwellings, and made regular public appearances.
* Mark "his name is not Sugar Ray" McGrath. He once did a commercial in which people kept mistakenly calling him by his band's name. At least he has a sense of humor about it.
* Most people thought that after making it big, former ''[[American Idol]]'' contestant Chris Daughtry had dropped his first name. Uh, no. ''He's'' still Chris Daughtry; ''his band'' is Daughtry. Extremely confusing because we ''know'' that it is, in fact, named for the lead singer, the natural assumption is that he's a solo artist, which he apparently isn't.
* The band ''The Thompson Twins'' were often assumed to be a duo, from the name, which could cause a problem when they were booked in a venue whose stage was too small for the trio they actually were. In fact the band's choice of name is itself an illustration of this trope. The name comes from two characters from the ''[[Tintin
* Many people are shocked to discover that Gnarls Barkley is a group (or rather, a duo), rather than the name of a large African-American singer.
** That duo being Cee-Lo Green (singer and songwriter) and [[
** [[
* The Japanese band [[Angela]] has a name that is a common given name in many places, leading to people mistakenly believing that singer Atsuko Yamashita is named Angela.
* When [[Procol Harum]] performed on a talk show, they were naturally asked which one was Procol.
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{{quote| "People always ask," comments [Terry Scott] Taylor wryly, "which one's Dan? We took our name from the two Old Testament prophets—[[Sarcasm Mode|Ezekial and Jeremiah]]."}}
* Even though most/all members of Eisley are related, their shared last name is [[Du Pree]], not Eisley. The name is just a holdover from the band's former name, Moss Eisley, a barely disguised ''[[Star Wars]]'' reference.
* Similar to the above examples, [[
** ...which was named after a Bob Dylan song, "[[wikipedia:The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest|The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest]]."
* The indie folk/country rock act Bright Eyes is actually a trio (Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott) which is accompanied by a revolving door of backing members (including several well known indie rock musicians). It is not the stage name for lead singer/guitarist Conor Oberst. This mistake has appeared in magazines and even a sketch on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''. Oberst has essentially gotten tired of being called Bright Eyes in interviews.
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* Alice Deejay was a trio, and the [[Face of the Band]]'s name was Judy.
* Ayla was a trance project of DJ Tandu(Ingo Kunzi), who sometimes collaborated with DJ Taucher(Ralph Armand Beck), he named it after a Turkish woman he met while recording the first song of the project, which he also named after her.
* The now-defunct group Ian Van Dahl was composed of Annemie Coenen(who now sings as Annagrace), Christophe Chantzis, and Erik Vanspauwen. Their first album was titled [[Fun
* There is a parody of this trope in ''[[Date Night]]'', where [[Tina Fey]]'s character recognises Will I Am in a fancy restaraunt and identifies him as "the guy from Fergie."
* [[
* Matt Bianco was the name of a pop group, even if you can occasionally hear a guy singing.
* The Doobie Brothers are neither siblings, nor does anyone in the band have the last name Doobie.
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* No one in Rainer Maria was named Rainer or Maria. The name came from the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and was chosen as it was unisex sounding.
* Cheap Girls are all male. The name simply to refers to the premise of "easy to get" girls, not any member of the band, hence referring to them as "The Cheap Girls" is [[Gannon Banned|not a good idea around a fan.]]
* Steven Tyler's name is not [[
* There is no Eli Young in the Eli Young Band. There are, however, a Mike Eli and a James Young. (Jon Jones and Chris Thompson are the others.) The name stems from the fact that Eli and Young used to be just a duo, and added the other two members later on.
* Now that country trio [[Lady Antebellum]] is having crossover success, the misconception that there's a brunette singer named "Lady Antebellum" backed by a couple of dudes is spreading rapidly. Her name is actually Hillary Scott.
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* [[Bon Iver]] is a band, not the name of the lead singer. That's Justin Vernon. This confusion is probably because Vernon recorded most of his debut album, ''For Emma, Forever Ago'' by himself and thus people assumed that Bon Iver was a stage name.
* Miike Snow is a Swedish band. Also the name came from someone they knew named "Mike Snow" and replacing it with the "Miike" from [[Takashi Miike]]. But it's still pronounced like "Mike" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JUd_Ek1woZ4 (at least, according to the band)]
* Not an example of a band, but rather a character from the [[Rock Opera]], [[
* In an episode of [[Mad TV]], [[Insane Clown Posse]] get this treatment from a character played by [[Alex Borstein]] when she greets the two. [[Played for Laughs]]. She refers to Violent J as "Mr. Insane" and Shaggy 2 Dope as "Mr. Clown Posse".
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