Editing Stage name (section)

==Euphony and ease of remembrance==
Some performers and artists may choose to simplify their name to make it easier to spell and pronounce, and easier for others to remember. For instance, [[Fall Out Boy]] vocalist and guitarist [[Patrick Stump]] removed the "h" from his original surname, Stumph. It was still pronounced "stump", but the change ensured his audience would not think to pronounce it "stumf". Singer [[Jason Derulo]] (known for announcing his name in many of the introductions of his songs) uses the phonetic spelling of his given name, Jason Desrouleaux. Australian actress [[Yvonne Strahovski]] adopted a phonetic spelling of her Polish surname, Strzechowski, as her stage name upon moving to the United States. American stand-up comedian [[Louis C.K.]] adopted his stage name from the phonetic spelling of his Hungarian surname, Székely.

[[Andy Warhol]] dropped an "a" from his original name, Warhola, while couturier [[Yves Saint Laurent (designer)|Yves Mathieu-Saint-Laurent]] dropped the first of his two surnames. Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi adopted the stage name [[Rudolph Valentino]] in part because American casting directors found his original surname difficult to pronounce. Singer [[George Michael]] (the son of a Greek Cypriot restaurateur in North London) was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou.

Some surnames may carry unfortunate connotations. [[Hal Linden]], born Harold Lipshitz, adopted his stage name for fear that the embedded obscenity in his original surname could cost him work. [[Ralph Lauren]]'s brother (who was his guardian) changed their family name from Lifshitz for a similar reason: fear of mockery.  [[Duran Duran]]'s [[Nick Rhodes]], born Nicholas James Bates, changed his name to escape childhood ridicule (as a child, children would often tease him by calling him "[[Masturbation|Master Bates]]"); he adopted the surname "Rhodes" after the [[Synthesizer|keyboard]] [[Rhodes piano|manufacturer of the same name]]. [[Diana Dors]] was born Diana Fluck (one letter away from [[Fuck|a profanity]]); this prompted her to change her name to a more benign one in order to avoid an accidental obscenity (which could have been exacerbated by her status as a [[sex symbol]]).