History MeaningfulName / Music

** The group also got their name from the fact they could sing together in five-part a cappella harmony, y'know, in sync.

* Lance Bass is the bass singer of Music/{{NSYNC}}, though his name is pronounced like the fish rather than the voice type. ''Radio/WaitWaitDontTellMe'' couldn't resist asking him about [[http://www.npr.org/2015/02/14/385996614/not-my-job-three-questions-about-bass-the-fish-for-lance-bass-the-singer competitive bass fishing]].

* Lance Bass is the bass singer of Music/{{NSYNC}}, though his name is pronounced like the fish rather than the voice type.

* A male group called "Queen" headed by a gay man, Freddie Mercury.

* Lance Bass is the bass singer in {{Nsync}}

* Gary Numan renamed himself (from Gary Webb) something that sounded, like, futuristic and cool, including the space-age spelling...which he copied off a plumber in the phonebook.

* CaptainBeefheart 's real name was Don Van Vliet. A don is a mafia leader who has near total control over his branch, and is not afraid to use violence to achieve his means. John French's book Through The Eyes Of Magic proves that Van Vliet was indeed a ruthless leader especially during the recording of Trout Mask Replica. He would frequently subject the other band members to intimidation tactics and violence, and would not let them eat more than a small amount a day. As an added bonus, he was the Captain, ie a different type of leader. It has been noted that his approach softened after his whole band walked out on him a few years later.

* Ian Paice, drummer for DeepPurple. Admittedly, with his complex style, ''merely'' keeping time wasn't necessarily his greatest concern.

* A male group called "Queen" headed by a gay man, Freddie Mercury. Mercury wasn't his original surname[[note]]he was born Farrokh Bulsara[[/note]], but the name is connected to the adjective ''mercurial'', which is fittingly defined by Wiktionary as (among other things) "Having a volatile or lively character; quick-witted, changeable, animated."

* A male group called "Queen" headed by a gay man, Freddie Mercury.

* Robert '''Palmer''' has done many hits with Caribbean-style sounds mixed in (think '''Palm''' trees).

* Robert Palmer has done many hits with Caribbean-style sounds mixed in (think '''Palm''' trees).

* Wall of Voodoo were named by a producer who compared their peculiar oeuvre to disco's "wall of sound", made by densely layering orchestras and synth...except Stan Ridgway and Co sounded like a "wall of voodoo."

* Ian Paice, drummer for Mark I and II of DeepPurple. Admittedly, with his complex style, ''merely'' keeping time wasn't necessarily his greatest concern.

* Ian Paice, drummer for Mark I and II of DeepPurple. Admittedly, with his complex style, keeping time wasn't necessarily his greatest concern.

* The Scandinavian opera singers Nina Stemme (stemme = voice) and Gisela Stille (stille = quiet)
** Considering the popular image of opera songs, the latter might be an inversion.

* Alicia ''Keys'' plays the piano. (OK, so it's not her real name. Still counts!)
** She still counts when you consider that she came from Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan, though. Her real name is Alicia Augello ''Cook''.

The protagonist's title can, at times, be a [[MeaningfulName lyrical allusion]] to the themes of a song.

* Cam Pipes, the [[JudasPriest Halfored-esque]] vocalist of Canadian heavy metal band [[ThreeInchesOfBlood 3 Inches of Blood]]. As a boy he was a choir singer.

* Paul David Hewson was given the nickname Bono Vox. He didn't like it until he learned it was Latin for "good voice". Today he just goes by Bono.
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* The story behind Children of Nova's album, The Complexity of Light, involves a character named Corbin (obviously taken from "corvus", Latin for "crow" or "raven", which also gives us "corbies") who has some kind of deep association with crows.
* {{Gackt}}'s name tends to sound weird to, well... people in general. But his name has an actual meaning. Gackt Camui is a modification of Gackuto Kamui which can either mean "Divine power of music" or "Divine being made of music".

* The story behind Children of Nova's album, The Complexity of Light, involves a character named Corbin (obviously taken from "corvus", Latin for "crow" or "raven", which also gives us "corbies") who has some kind of deep association with crows.