17 Gen Z Celebs Who Use Stages Names (And The Meanings Behind Them)
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In 2017, she told BBC, '[Eilish] is my middle name. So I'm Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell. [Pirate is] pretty weird, right? Pirate was going to be my middle name, but then my uncle had a problem with it because pirates are bad. Then Baird is my mother's name.'
In 2021, he told The Tonight Show that Nas had been his 'internet alias.' He said, 'When I started doing music, I was like, 'I want to have fun with this. And every new rapper's name is Lil, Lil, Lil. 'What if I was Lil Nas? That'd be funny.' So I was like, 'Alright, bet. I'll be Lil Nas.' And I added the X later on.'
In 2020, he told The Dixie D'Amelio Show, 'There was a thought that I was getting older and that I was sort of transcending into the music world a little bit and to feel like I'd be taken more seriously. It was time to drop 'Lil' from my name just so I could show a different side from what people have seen of me so far.'
In Spanish, Peso Pluma translates to 'featherweight.' In 2023, he told Billboard, '[I chose that name] because we were'
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