What’s in a name?

The Joan-Es and Raye Sunshines of the drag world may be onto something after all. If you’ve ever thought about changing your name to get ahead in your career, maybe you should just go ahead and do it.

Here’s a list of arguably successful musicians who changed their name for the sake of their career.

Turns out this guy wasn’t just hiding his sexuality… heyo!

And for the record, I’ve been considering $ean Holla for about 8 seconds and it’s feeling like a good fit. Yeah? YEAH?

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