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The Almanac Singers was an American New York City-based folk music group, active between 1940 and 1943, founded by Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and were joined by Woody Guthrie.
Those who changed their name to perform a character or alter ego, including drag performers and professional wrestlers. Those who changed their name to undertake an alias, rather than a name with which the subject will publicly identify. Those who changed their surname due primarily to marriage, even if the marriage has since ended. Those who ...
Some of the Japanese American performers changed their names to avoid the prevalent anti-Japanese sentiment while others were forced to move out of the region to avoid internment. [4]: 30–31 A fire in 1946 temporarily closed the club. [58] [59] The club inspired the novel Flower Drum Song as well as its subsequent musical and film adaptations.
Hollywood has a long history of pressuring aspiring performers to change (i.e. anglicize) their names to make them more "palatable" to an American audience or to prevent themselves from being ...
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Josephine Baker's success as a Vaudeville dancer took her France, where she was lauded as one of the country's most popular performers. During World War II, Baker ...
The following entertainers performed for U.S. military personnel and their allies in the combat theatre during the Vietnam War (1959–1975) Roy Acuff (1970) Anna Maria Alberghetti
Many actors and other entertainers elect to add or include their mothers' maiden names in their adopted stage names.The book How to be a Working Actor: The Insider's Guide to Finding Jobs in Theater, Film, and Television advises aspiring performers to consider changing their names, noting that "if [your birth name] is difficult to spell, pronounce, or remember, it may not be the name you want ...
The band was asked to change their name due to Saron Gas being a homophone of sarin gas, a deadly nerve agent. The band changed its name to Seether in honor of Veruca Salt's song titled, "Seether". [288] Sepultura – Means "Grave" in Portuguese.