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This is a list of nickname-related list articles on Wikipedia. A nickname is "a familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name." [ 1 ] A nickname is often considered desirable, symbolising a form of acceptance, but can sometimes be a form of ridicule.
Music group [4] Brave Girls: Fearless Music group [37] B.A.P: BABY Music group [38] Baby Tate: Tater Tots Musician [39] Babymetal: The One Music group Named from their English-language song "The One" [1] Babymonster: Monstiez Music group [40] Band-Maid: Goshujin-sama, Ojō-sama Music group Based on the names used to greet patrons at maid cafés ...
When describing popular music artists, honorific nicknames are used, most often in the media or by fans, to indicate the significance of an artist, and are often religious, familial, or most frequently royal and aristocratic titles, used metaphorically.
Sloan – According to band member Jay Ferguson, the band's name refers to a friend's nickname. Their friend Jason Larsen was called "slow one" by his French-speaking boss, which with the French accent sounded more like "Sloan". The original agreement was that they could name the band after their friend's nickname as long as he was on the cover ...
Some of the most notable nicknames and stage names are listed here. Although the term Jazz royalty exists for "Kings" and similar royal or aristocratic nicknames, there is a wide range of other terms, many of them obscure. Where the origin of the nickname is known, this is explained at each artist's corresponding article.
Some nicknames, however, were applied in a determined region, or from an international perspective instead of their own country or vice versa. In Russia Beyond, Vasily Shumov wrote the examples of Russian female pop singers, explaining they don't have an "equivalent" Russian female musician with famous West music figures such as Madonna. [32]
Dominot (1930–2014), Italian actor and female impersonator; Donatello (born 1947), Italian singer; Donga (1890–1974), Brazilian guitarist and composer; Donghae (born 1986), South Korean singer and occasional actor; Doni (born 1967), Bulgarian pop singer, composer and actor; Donnie (born 1994), Dutch rapper and songwriter; Donnis (born 1984 ...
The following list of nicknames of blues musicians complements the existing list of blues musicians by referring to their nicknames, stage names and pseudonyms, thereby helping to clarify possible confusion arising over artists with similar or the same nicknames. The list is arranged in alphabetical order by nickname rather than surname. For ...