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Names -> Music Performer Pseudonyms -> Y

This is a list of names of famous people, who have changed their real name. I'm only looking for music performers, not actors or other famous people. Below are the most recent entries.

Entries Beginning with Y

Pseudonym		Original Name		Description		Submitted by:
Ya Kid K		Manuela Kamosi				Bobo
Ya Kid K.		Manuela Barbara Kamosi Moasco Djogi		One rap/dance artist formerly of Technotronic		Mastermind
Yanni		Yanni Chryssomalis Kalamata		He used to date Linda Evans.		newage
Yanni		Yanni Hrisomallis		According to walshnet.com, his real name.		newage
Yarbrough & Peoples		Calvin Yarbrough/Alisa Peoples				duo
Yella		Antoine Carraby		founding member and producer for gangsta rap group NWA		madscientist
Yellowman		Winston Foster				Bobo
Yma Sumac		Amy Camus		I've read somewhere that the whole story was rather fake. You only have to read her name backwards.		Miura
Yma Sumac		Zoila Imperatriz Chavarri del Castillo		Peruvian born singer and frequent answer in T.V. Guide's crossword puzzles.		Peru
Ynot		Toni Craig		Info from rapdict.org		Bobo
Yo Yo		Yolanda Whitaker				inthe80s.com
Yoga Frog		Ritchie Desuasido				Bobo
Yolanda Adams		Yolanda Yvette Adams				Lori Blonde
Young Buck		David Brown				wcgold
Young Jeezy		Jay Jenkins		Atlanta "trap star" aka "Snowman," founder/CEO of Corporate Thugz Ent. (distributed by Def Jam), came out with Top 5 hit "Soul Survivor" (and there are rumors about him and Keyshia Cole)		peopleschampeezydasnowman
Young Lay		Lathan Williams		Info from rapdict.org		Bobo
Young Lay		Lathan Williams		he is from vallejo california		young lay
Young MC		Marvin Young				Hakim
Youth		Martin Glover		Bassist for Killing Joke.		newsound
Yukmouth		Jerold Ellis Jr.		Info from rapdict.org		Bobo
Yuri		Yuridia Valenzuela Canseco		A musical prodigy, at age nine she was offered a scholarship to study dance with the Bolshoi Ballet — she declined — and as a teen fronted the group Yuri and the Electric Apple		Bobo
Yusef Islam		Steven Demetre Georgiou		Was still Cat Stevens before he converted to the Muslim faith.		brit
Yves Montand		Ivo Livi				French
YZ		Anthony Hill		Info from rapdict.org		Bobo

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