Artists' REAL names

[Luna]

Seen this on DS and thought some of them where quite funny

Shaggy = Orville Burrell
Ice T = Tracy Marrow
Ginuwine = Elgin Lumpkin
Raphael Saadiq = Charlie Wiggins
Snoop Doggy Dogg = Cordazer Broadus
Busta Ryhmes = Trevor Smith
Dido = Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong
Vanilla Ice = Robert Van Winckle
MC Hammer = Stanley Burrell
Ja Rule = Jeffrey Atkins

Shania Twain = Eileen Edwards
Redman = Reggie Noble
Kid Rock = Robert Ritchie
Coolio - Artis Ivey Jr.
Chuck D = Carlton Ridenhour
Everlast = Eric Schrody
Nelly = Cornell Haynes Jr.
Gene Simmons = Chaim Witz
Bounty Killer = Rodney Price
Marilyn Manson = Brian Warner
Method Man = Clifford Smith
Ms. Dynamite = Niomi Mclean-Daley
Engelbert Humperdinck = Arnold Dorsey

Stevie Wonder = Steveland Judkins
Dusty Springfield = Mary O'Brien
Billie Holiday = Eleanora Fagan
Nina Simone = Eunice Waymon
Etta James = Jamesetta Hawkins
Patsy Cline = Virginia Hensley
Dean Martin = Dino Crocetti
Meat Loaf = Marvin Aday
John Denver = Henry Deutschendorf Jr.
Bonnie Tyler = Gaynor Hopkins
Steven Tyler = Steven Talarico
Barry Manilow = Barry Pincus
Courtney Love = Love Harrison
Macy Gray = Natalie McIntyre
Gram Parsons = Cecil Connor
Joey Ramone = Jeffery Hyman
D'Angelo = Michael Archer
Erykah Badu = Erica Wright
Captain Beefheart - Don Van Vliet
Eric Clapton = Eric Clapp
Alice Cooper = Vincent Furnier
Tina Turner = Annie Bullock
Leo Sayer = Gerald Sayer
Levi Stubbs = Levi Stubbles
George Michael = Yorgos Panayiotou
Joni Mitchell = Roberta Anderson
Billy Ocean = Leslie Charles
Lou Reed = Louis Firbank
Elton John - Reginald Kenneth Dwight

[Luna]

woops should this be in music sorry - can someone move it please

[stacyefc]

i thought elton john's name was his real name

[bubblegum_fairy]

ooo ver intresting.. me likes the list

[Katy]

Jeffrey Atkins just doesnt have the same ring to it. I like Didos as well.

[feelingyellow]

Ooo cool, really interesting to see people real names! Didn't known Shania's isn't her own lol ... some of the names are so different compared to their real ones! I can sort of see why they changed them lol ... but some are ok! :)

[the_watts_rule]

Ooo Interesting. I would have never have know that some of them had another name.

[annaz]

lol, it would be strange to call Shaggy, Orville. Or Marilyn Manson, Brian :p

[~*~Leanne~*~]

i can see why some of them changed their names but i thought shania's was her own

[willsmummy]

Cliff Richard's real name is Harry Webb.

Don't ask me how I know. I'm not a fan or anything. I think I heard it in a pub quiz in 1989, or something like that.

[Luna]

Cliff Richard's real name is Harry Webb.

Don't ask me how I know. I'm not a fan or anything. I think I heard it in a pub quiz in 1989, or something like that.

yeah yeah we believe you :rolleyes:

[willsmummy]

Honest, Guv!

I know I'm old, but even my Mum is too young to like Cliff :)

[x Amby x]

50 Cent's real name is Curtis Jackson, but most people would know that one lol

[feelingyellow]

50 Cent's real name is Curtis Jackson, but most people would know that one lol

I didn't lol :p God Curtis Jackson, I would have never thought he would be called that lol

[shannisrules]

Shania Twain = Eileen Edwards

really! i thought she was actually called hania shows how much i know lol