These celebrities got real about why they chose their stage names 👀
After Jimmy asked what KJ stands for, the actor said,"KJ is short for Keneti James, which is a Samoan name. I'm named after my father."John Shearer / Getty Images for The Recording Academy,"I got so desperate I went through the dictionary for something that catches my eye. I get to the W's, and I pick Wild. 'Alicia Wild, how does that sound, Ma?' She said, 'It sounds like you're a stripper.' But I liked Keys. It's like the piano keys.
,"I think I had the foresight to know that being me wasn’t enough. I had to become somebody completely different. At the time, I felt that Ashley didn’t deserve to be famous and successful because she wasn’t that special, but if I made Halsey, maybe she could be. [Changing my name] gave me the opportunity to create a new persona that wasn’t bound by the expectations I had for myself or the limitations that others placed on me because of my upbringing or my socioeconomic situation.
"I go, 'Then what do you call me?' She goes, 'I call you Jo ko. That is your nickname. Jo ko.' And for all of you at home who don't know what that means: In Tagalog, ko means my. My nickname is my Jo. Jo ko. How fucking sweet is that?"Frank Ocean was born Christopher Edwin Breaux but legally changed his name to Christopher Francis Ocean.,"I changed my name on my birthday last year. It was the most empowering shit I did in 2010, for sure.
"When you do comedy...these are all comedians who changed their names, and I felt it was the easiest thing for me to do, and ultimately, it was really beneficial to do it. It was something that I had a lot of mixed feelings about. But my parents didn't mind. I talked to them about it. And then, I ended up shortening it. It's bittersweet, but I have to say, it was such a help to my career to have a name that people could pronounce.
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