How these 5 Popular Musicians Got Their Unforgettable Nicknames
Ever wonder how famous artists got their monikers?
Here are 5 behind the scenes stories of how these talented musicians are known solely by their stage names, their real names fading into oblivion. Some of them forgetting their very own birth names themselves!
Most famous people in history change their names to a stage name as a marketing tactic, making them more easily remembered by fans, hence increasing their popularity at an exponential pace.
Besides, its undeniably f en cool to have an awesome, succinct nickname that eludes to something unique about the artist.
STING ( Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner )
In “Sting’s” younger days, he used to play with a band called the Pheonix Jazzmen. He received the nickname “Sting” from one of his bandmates because of the black-and-yellow striped sweater he often wore while performing.
“I would wear a sweater that my girlfriend had knit for me, it was black and yellow hoops. Looked ridiculous,” he said on “Inside the Actors Studio.”
“And the band thought I looked like a bee. And of course, called me Sting.”
In the 1985 documentary Bring on the Night, a journalist called him Gordon, to which…
