Etta James. She had her first hit in the UK a few years ago, when "I just want to make love to you" was used in a Coke (or was it Pepsi?) commercial!
OK here's a pretty obscure one.....who was originally known as (deep breath!) Florencia Bisenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona?
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Vic
"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)
Wow! Vikki Carr!
She's really well known in South America...so it seems she drank some Absinthe to change from Bisenta to Vikki!!
Ok..let's start a romantic night with your wife....have some wine, caviar, and melt her with some Barrence Eugene Carter 's music.
Barry 'Who's yo Daddy" White :)
Who was Ernest Evans before he changed to another more famous alliteration? :wink:
Chubby Checker!! let's do the twist!!
Now it's the time for the great Francisco Sánchez Gómez ...ole!!
Is that Paco de Lucia? That was tough.
Colleen Summers was the better half of LP, but know by what stage name?
Iris Colleen Summers = Mary Ford....the LP clue kinda gave that away!
OK let's try this - which 60's bass player, known by a single-word name, was originally known as Trevor Leonard Davies?
:D :D :D
Vic
"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)
Is it the British pop bassist 'Dozy'? Dude that was hard to hunt down.
Try this one on for size. What did Rudy Martinez change his name to?
I'd have cried , ooh, at least "96 Tears" if I hadn't got that one....he changed his name to ? - as in "? and The Mysterians"
BTW, yeah, it was Dozy! (Trevor Leonard Davies, that is!)
OK - who did Benjamin Franklin Peay evolve into?
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Vic
"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)
Brook Benton!
Next: He was a looney to some, a genius to others... He was born as Herman Poole Blount , but he changed to....?
ok this guy is a cult artist... and he decided to have an egyptian nickname....still in the dark?? :)
Nice clues - that'd be Sun Ra. I have to confess, I've heard of him but don't think I've ever heard anything by him.
OK - how's Eugene Dixon better known?
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Vic
"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)
The great Gene Chandler!!
what about Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV , a fatty boy that changed his name to .......... and then to.............. ?? (bonus point if you get this one).
Was it Black Francis then Frank Black? Or, vise versa?
Here's another multiple personality...
Who did Ian Fraiser Kilmister change his name to? And then finally to? Any additional AKAs are bonus.
:)
... errr Lemmy and Lemmy Kilimister?? or did he have other nicks??
Have we ever mentioned Michael Balzary????
I think we did not too long ago...it's Flea!
Who is James Johnson Jr.?
