Irina Allegrova - Inessa Sarkisova
The cult singer was born with an unusual name of Inessa, however, he had to change it for the creative career to the more soniced and familiar domestic listeners. The surname of Irina Allegrova belongs to her only partly: In his youth, Pope, Alexander Sarkisov, worked in a circus, where he was given a nickname allegnis. As soon as he began his opera singer's career, immediately changed the data of the passport, called Allegrov.
Ani Lorak - Carolina Kuke
Although the parents of the future star broke up before her birth, Mom Zhanna Vasilyevna decided to leave the memory of his father in the form of his last name. The name of the newborn was also invented by Mom - she liked the Soviet entertainment transfer "Zucchini '13 chairs", where a woman named Carolina was one of the heroines. When Carolina grade, she began to win on a local song contest, where the future producer Yuri Falez noted her. The next step was the performance on the "Morning Star", the truth did not manage to speak under my name: another young singer was announced for the competition - Tatiana Tishinskaya, who had speaking under the pseudonym Carolina for a long time. In order not to repeat, we decided to come up with a pseudonym of real caroline. Inverted the name in the opposite direction and the Anilorak came out, which became Ani Lorak.
Dima Bilan - Victor Bellan
"Grandfather, a heroic man, passed the whole war, got a serious injury, after which he was fighting paralysis. His named Dmitry, like me. I took the pseudonym in memory of him, "said Bilan in an interview. By the way, he took a pseudonym even in the younger, at the start of the career. Under the leadership of Yuri Aizenshpis, the singer changed the surname to the more sonor. True, after the death of the producer, the heirs decided to apply for income from the brand "Dima Bilan". Yana Rudkovskaya, the current producer of Bilan, told him urgently change the data of the passport: "As you know, Dima on the passport - Viktor Nikolayevich Bellan. But on us this name and patronymic are horrified, and they are already starring in nightmares. So we decided to change this phrase. Now, on the passport he is Dima Nikolayevich Bilan. "
Pelagia - Polina Smirnova
At the birth of the girl, the parents gave the unusual name of Pelagia in honor of the great-grandmother of the future singer, the truth of the registry office recorded her Polina. When issuing a passport, the girl changed the name on Pelagia. Initially, the singer was named Smirnov, but later, when the mother married another man, replaced her to Khanov. Now Pelagei has a third surname - Telegin, taken from a hockey player.
Anfisa Chekhov - Alexander Korchunova
"At the age of 19, I changed the name and surname, calculating the numerology that my former pull me down and spoil the figure of my birth, I was a typical loser. The new name, Anfisa Chekhov, in Numerology perfectly improved the picture of my life, "the star in a personal blog admitted, noting that he had sincerely believed in numerology. A month after the change of the name of the young anfisa Czechova, they offered work leading on the entertainment TV channel - it "changed her life to 180 degrees," as she was repeatedly recognized.