I really am a fan of Bruno Mars.  His real name is Peter Hernandez
Is it really? I much prefer Drake. His new album, Scorpion, is great. His real name is Audrey Graham. What's up with the stage names?!
I think a lot of times, performers adopt a name to attract attention
True enough. Madonna never had to do that though, she kept her name and is still a star.
True, her real name is Madonna Louise Ciccone and she was born in 1958.  She just turned 60!
Wow, she's still got it! "Like a Virgin" and "Vogue" are my two favorite hits by Madonna.
She has come a long way from the girl who moved to New York from Michigan in 1978
Did you know the late Aretha Franklin is from MIchigan?
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. Franklin began her career as a child singing gospel at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, where her father C. L. Franklin was minister. At the age of 18, she embarked on a secular musical career as a recording artist for Columbia Records. While Franklin's career did not immediately flourish, she found acclaim and commercial success after signing with Atlantic Records in 1966
not things the studio perceives to be commercially viable. It really is that simple. Is that true of me? Sure. Absolutely. But it's no more true of me than 50 other people I know.
Hill admitted his style of films were becoming less fashionable:
I admire a lot of what's going on out there, but the oversize kind of cartoon action movies is not something I'm terribly comfortable with. I think what I do is much more in the tradition that the bullets are real and