History MeaningfulName / Music

* Alicia ''Keys'' plays the piano. She came from Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan and her real name is Alicia Augello ''Cook''.

* The debut album from country artist Radney Foster, ''Del Rio, TX 1959'', is named for his birthplace and birth year. Music/DariusRucker, who acknowledges Foster as one of his main country influences, gave Foster a ShoutOut in 2010 by using his own data as the title of his second country album: ''Charleston, SC 1966''.

*** In "I'm Back", Slim Shady explains his name as alluding to a thin line of coke in the back of a dark limo. This hints at how Slim is also an AllegoricalCharacter for Eminem's fame.
*** It's also something of a LineOfSightName hinting to the Detroit connection - when driving to his miserable line cook job, Eminem liked to practice by thinking up rhymes for words he saw on street signage. One of the roads he passed to his workplace was Shady Lane. (He also got the name for his DepravedHomosexual character "Ken Kaniff" from another Detroit road, Caniff Street.)

*** It's a racial allegory - M&Ms have a white label stamped on them but are brown on the inside. (While kind of tasteless now, at the time, many popular white rappers had names signalling their whiteness.)

*** [=M&M=]s are also sugary, addictive junk, brightly-coloured, marketed to children, and bad for their health, alluding to Eminem's SubvertedKidsShow aesthetic.

* Music/{{Eminem}}'s Slim Shady character has a few layers of meaning:
** He's Marshall's ShadowArchetype.
** "Slim Shady" literally means LeanAndMean. At the time Eminem created the character, he was extremely skinny due to not being able to afford food, alluding to the poverty that led Shady to become so twisted. In [[KayfabeMusic kayfabe]], Slim's skinny because he's [[UndiscriminatingAddict constantly on drugs]], and just abuses them instead of eating.
** In "I'm Back", Slim Shady explains his name as alluding to a thin line of coke in the back of a dark limo. This hints at how Slim is also an AllegoricalCharacter for Eminem's fame.
** It's also something of a LineOfSightName hinting to the Detroit connection - when driving to his miserable line cook job, Eminem liked to practice by thinking up rhymes for words he saw on street signage. One of the roads he passed to his workplace was Shady Lane. (He also got the name for his DepravedHomosexual character "Ken Kaniff" from another Detroit road, Caniff Street.)

** It's also something of a LineOfSightName - when driving to his miserable line cook job, Eminem liked to practice by thinking up rhymes for words he saw on street signage. One of the roads he passed to his workplace was Shady Lane. (He also got the name for his DepravedHomosexual character "Ken Kaniff" from another Detroit road, Caniff Street.)

* Duke Sateriajis Venomania in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV99NZmurVA Madness of Duke Venomania]], the vessel of the sin of Lust, of the ''Music/EvilliousChronicles''. His first name is based on "satyriasis" (obsessive sexual desire in men) and his last name is a mix of "venom" and "nymphomania".
** Also, Nemesis Sudou of “The Muzzle of Nemesis”. It’s pretty appropriate that the vessel of the Demon of Wrath just happens to be named “Nemesis”, after the Greek god of retribution.

* Duke Sateriajis Venomania in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV99NZmurVA Madness of Duke Venomania]], the vessel of the sin of Lust, of the Franchise/EvilliousChronicles. His first name is based on "satyriasis" (obsessive sexual desire in men) and his last name is a mix of "venom" and "nymphomania".

* [[Memes/{{Touhou}} John Stump]]'s music is purposely impossible to play; it, as it were, stumps players.

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

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

* Music/GaryNuman 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.

* Music/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.
* Devo was originally short for The De-Evolution Band.

* 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.

* Music/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.
* Robert ''Palmer'' has done many hits with Caribbean-style sounds mixed in (the islands have ''palm'' trees).
* Music/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.

* America seems like it's a boring example but it's not. The band's three core members were all actually born and partly raised in England and all had English mothers, but they all came over to the U.S. in their teens where their American military fathers all came from. They named their band to point out their American heritage.
* Earth, Wind and Fire got their name from the three key elements in the band leader's astrological sign.
* The Bee Gees are an accidental instance; they didn't name themselves because they were all young boys when the band got started (as a harmonious skiffle act in their adopted homeland of Australia). Their manager at the time, one '''B'''ill '''G'''ood named their band after his initials. It just so happened that, as they matured into their own band (in the late '60s - early '70s), it could also stand for "the '''B'''rothers '''G'''ibb".

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

* 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."

* Algy's Simply Awfully Good at Algebra! (You may recall the Malcolm Mc Laren version, but it dates back at least until 1902.)

* Algy's Simply Awfully Good at Algebra! (You may recall the Malcolm McLaren version, but it dates back at least until 1902.)

* Duke Sateriajis Venomania in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV99NZmurVA Madness of Duke Venomania]]. His first name is based on "satyriasis" (obsessive sexual desire in men) and his last name is a mix of "venom" and "nymphomania"

* Music/X Japan guitarist Pata received his nickname from his bandmate due to how he reminded them of the titular character from Manga / Patalliro!

* {{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".
* ESPosthumus' name stands for Experimental Sounds (ES) and "posthumus" is Dog Latin for "all things past."

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

* The Band.