Who would ever hold back Chan Kong-Sang, or Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr.?
The stage name he is not only common in Greece but also in world showbiz – even a famous magician Harry Houdini he was born Ehrich Weiss, but took his stage name Harry Houdini in homage to the famous French magician Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (and it is also rumored that Houdini paid homage to magician Harry Kellar as well).
Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg was born Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr., but his parents named him Snoopy because they thought he resembled the famous beagle from the cartoon of the same name.
Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan was working on a construction site in Australia when he got his famous nickname. One of his co-workers, named Jack, couldn’t pronounce Chan’s first name, Kong-Sang, so he called him “Little Jack.” The name soon changed to Jackie and ended up sticking.
MC Hammer
Born Stanley Kirk Burrell, the famous rapper got his nickname from his work as a teenager with the Oakland Athletics. The team owner loved the talented kid who danced in the parking lot and earned the nickname “Hammer” because of his resemblance to baseball player “Hammerin” Hank Aaron.
Once Little Hammer took the mic, he became MC Hammer.
Alice Cooper
According to mentalfloss.com, Alice Cooper, born Vincent Furnier, supposedly got his stage name from a Ouija board, which told him that he had been called Alice Cooper in a previous life.
But the famous rocker has admitted that the name came out of… nowhere. “There was something about it. The image of a little girl with a lollipop in one hand and a butcher knife in the other came to mind. Lizzie Borden. Alice Cooper. They had a similar sound,” he wrote in “Alice Cooper: Cooper Cooper: Golf Monster.”
Whoopi Goldberg
The Hollywood actress was born Caryn Johnson and took her stage name from the whoopee pillow because of her tendency to blow herself up. It was her mother’s idea for Goldberg to combine Whoopi with Goldberg.
Michael Keaton (main photo)
The award-winning actor had to change his name to join the Guild because he shared the same name as an even bigger star, Michael Douglas.
Thus, Michael Douglas became Michael Keaton. In fact, according to him, Keaton came out completely by chance, as he himself randomly chose the letters of the alphabet for his new last name…
Source :Skai
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