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Names -> Music Performer Nicknames -> Latest Entries
This is a list of names of the nicknames music performers, are known by. Not actors or other famous people.
Latest Entries
The 20 most recent entries are listed below. There are 953 Music Performer Nicknames entries on the site.
Real Name | Nickname | Description | Submitted by: | |||
| Paul McCartney | Macca | He claims that it stuck because he’s from Liverpool and people abbreviate everything in Liverpool | Dayna | |||
| Phil Regan | The Singing [Irish] Cop | Once a New York City Police Department detective who switched professions after working as a guard at a vaudeville party and showing off his singing and piano skills to partygoers that included a radio producer. | George&GermaineBriantFan | |||
| Bob Marley | Skipper | It’s apparently because of his soccer skills. | Dayna | |||
| Dan Miller | Solder | https://tmbw.net/wiki/Monikers#Dan_Miller | All-Starr | |||
| Marty Beller | The Next President of the United States of America | https://tmbw.net/wiki/Monikers#Marty_Beller | All-Starr | |||
| Steven Van Zandt | Little Steve | It's apparently a nod to Little Richard. | dayna | |||
| Charo | The Cutchi Cutchi Girl | Based on the Latina performer's catch phrase from the '70s and 80's | Sheila Oh | |||
| Tico Torres | The Hitman | He's been drumming for Bon Jovi since the early days so his talent? I don't know but he's had it for a while. | dayna | |||
| Shonen Knife | Little Evas of the East | Shonen Knife is a Japanese lady punk trio that bases their music on Ramones-style punk, Beach Boys, 60's girl group harmonizing and J-pop. Little Eva was a prominent star of the early 60's 'girl group' sound and Shonen Knife are from Japan, which is the Far East/East Asia/Orient region. A 'girl group' from 'the (Far) East'. They're a fun band with a 'kawaii' image that plays punk rock and pays it HARD. Check them out. | I Saw Shonen Knife 5 Times | |||
| Nick Lowe | Basher | Supposedly his skills as a producer merited that NICKname to nick when he produced some early New Wave records. | I Saw Nick in 2019, FINALLY! | |||
| Ozzy Osbourne | Prince of Darkness | Ozzy took that nickname in keeping with his dark and sinister stage persona, though interestingly enough, the Birmingham-based Lucas Industries where Osbourne and his mother used to work for also earned the nickname due to Lucas's dubious reliability. | Maryellen Larkin | |||
| David Bryan | Lemma | It's apparently because he does an impression of a boxer named Lemma Moon. | Dayna | |||
| Ben Pollack | The Father of Swing | He truly deserved this title. A bandleader that had an eye for finding and developing very talented musicians, his gift earned him the nickname the "Father of Swing." Some of the musicians that passed through his bands from the mid-1920's to the 1940's went on to become successful bandleaders themselves: Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Harry James, Jack Teagarden, Yank Lawson, Hilton “Nappy” Lamare, Joe Harris, Charlie Spivak, etc. | George&GermaineBriantFan | |||
| Jon Bon Jovi | JBJ | It's his name in three letters. | dayna | |||
| Paul McCartney | Beatle Paul | Given to him by Jon Bon Jovi because he says that he's too old to call Paul Mr. McCartney and too in awe to just call him Paul. | dayna | |||
| Elton John | Sharon | It was given to him by one of his closest friends, Freddie Mercury, who sadly died of AIDS in 1991 | dayna | |||
| Freddie Mercury | Bucky | A mean childhood nickname for his teeth | dayna | |||
| Bruce Springsteen | The Boss | He actually hates being called the Boss but the nickname has stuck because back when he and his band was still playing clun gigs, he would hand out their pay at the end of the night | dayna | |||
| Led Zeppelin | The Zepps | For quite obvious reasons | PeartNeal | |||
| Iron Maiden | The Beast | They have used this nickname in 2 tours (till 2020): "The Beast On The Road" (1982) & "The Legacy Of The Beast" (2019). | PeartNeal |
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