The Stars We Know By Pseudonyms

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

7 stars who hide their real names

These celebrities are known to the public exclusively under pseudonyms. Various reasons prompted them to hide their real names and surnames. Someone thought that he would not succeed with a dissonant surname, and someone decided that he needed to stand out from the crowd not only with talent, but also with a memorable name.

Grigory Leps

The popular singer has Georgian roots, his real name is Lepsveridze. For the artist, the surname seemed too long.

He considered that it was not very convenient to pronounce it from the stage, so Gregory shortened his last name. The result is a short and clear pseudonym - Leps.

Gosha Kutsenko

The real name of the celebrity is Yuri. He became a gosha when he entered the Moscow Art Theater School. The young man read Yesenin's poems at the entrance exams, but due to the fact that he lisped hard, all the members of the selection committee, including Oleg Tabakov, simply died with laughter.

Tabakov asked the applicant's name several times. Every time Kutsenko answered: "Yuri", but the last time he suddenly could not resist and said: "Gosh - that's what my mother called me in childhood." Later, Kutsenko got rid of the speech defect, but the name Gosh remained with him.

Valeria Gai Germanicus

In the birth certificate of a celebrity, the name of Valeria Igorevna Dudinskaya is indicated. Upon receiving the passport, the girl officially took the name of Germanicus.

In addition, she changed her patronymic - Valeria Igorevna became Alexandrovna. Alexander is the stepfather who raised the girl, and her own father left the family when Valeria was not even a year old.

Alexander Malinin

For more than 30 years, singer Alexander Malinin bore the name of his father - Vyguzov. But in 1988 he received the Grand Prix at the All-Union Pop Song Contest in Latvia.

Then, on the initiative of Stas Namin, Alexander Vyguzov changed his last name to a more euphonious - Malinin.

Katya Lel

Ekaterina Chuprinina with her producer Yuri Aizenshpis for a long time could not find a suitable pseudonym for the future star. Then Catherine remembered a character named Lel, who personified spring in Rimsky-Korsakov's opera.

He was close to the girl in spirit and she took the name of this hero. So Ekaterina Chuprinina became Katya Lel.

Abraham Russo

The appearance of Abraham Russo on the stage was accompanied by a beautiful legend. The artist, who managed to bewitch the audience, was immediately dubbed the "Eastern Prince". There were rumors of his Turkish, Greek, Armenian and Syrian roots.

The singer was indeed born in Syria, but his parents were Turkish Armenians (according to another version, the artist's mother is Italian). In fact, the name of the singer is Abraham Zhanovich Ipdzhyan.

Alla Dovlatova

Marina Evstrakhina - this is actually the name of Alla Dovlatova. The TV and radio host began her career in journalism.

It was then that she got a creative pseudonym, which remained with her for many years. According to the artist, she always liked the name Alla, and she borrowed the last name from her beloved writer - Sergei Dovlatov.