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* [[The Police|Sting]] was born Gordon Matthew Sumner and got his nickname from a yellow and black striped sweater that he liked to wear on stage.

* [[Eminem]]'s real name is Marshall Bruce Mathers III. You can see [[Alliterative Name|why]] he uses Eminem.

** On the other hand, one boy named Shad Moss, possible the best given name for a gangster rapper ever, decided to call himself Lil' Bow Wow instead.

** [[Kanye West]] and Obie Trice thought their own names were good enough. Hell, Obie has a song called ''Rap Name'' where he boasts about not using a stage name!

* Nicholas James Bates became Nick Rhodes for "aesthetic reasons." His [[Duran Duran]] bandmate Nigel John Taylor goes by his middle name.

* A rare Japanese example: Masato Shimon, who changed his name from Masaharu Fujikawa, has gone under several names, including Akira Tani, Kouichi Fuji and Ryou Kisao.

* Every member of [[Motley Crue]]; the lead singer shortened from from Vince Neil Wharton to Vince Neil, the drummer shortened from Thomas Lee Bass to Tommy Lee, the guitarist's real name is Robert Alan Deal but he uses the cooler stage name Mick Mars, and bassist Frank Carlton Serafino Ferrana Jr. legally changed his name to Nikki Sixx when he was eighteen, before Motley Crue had even formed.

* [[U2]]'s Paul Hewson is better known as Bono (from his early stage name "Bono Vox of O'Connell Street" (''good voice'')) and his bandmate David Evans is The Edge.

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