Sheik-Shaykhlislamova, Malinin-Vyguzov and 17 stars, whose real names are known only by relatives
'21.07.2019'
Source: Adme
Many stars of the national cinema and pop have taken pseudonyms that sound beautiful and are easily remembered, unlike their real surnames and names. After all, Abraham Russo probably would have been less popular if he had not changed his real name - Abraham Ipdjian. The same can be said about Katya Lel, who is listed on the birth certificate as Ekaterina Chuprinina.
AdMe.ru tells us which of the Russian artists we know only by stage names.
Irina Shayk - Irina Shaykhlislamova
Russian supermodel and actress Irina Shaykhlislamova better known as Irina Shayk. Such a pseudonym was taken for the convenience of pronouncing her last name abroad.
Natalya Vodyanova - Natalya Vodyanova
Initially, the emphasis in the name of the Russian supermodel was placed on the penultimate syllable. But at the beginning of her career, Natalya became Vodyanova in order to achieve a harmonious sound.
Grigory Leps - Grigory Lepsveridze
The now incredibly popular singer, who, by the way, became known back in the distant 1996 year after the performance of the song “Natalie”, has Georgian roots. His real name - Lepsveridze, her Gregory just shortened for sonority. So Leps is a creative pseudonym.
Kristina Asmus - Kristina Myasnikova
From birth, the star "Interns", and in combination his wife Garik Kharlamov bore the name of Myasnikov. When Christina decided that she would become an actress, she took the surname of her grandfather, a German by nationality, as a pseudonym.
Gosha Kutsenko - Yuri Kutsenko
In fact, the star of the films "Mom, Do Not Cry" and "Antikiller" is called Yuri. Gosha, he became when he entered the Moscow Art Theater School. At the entrance exams, Kutsenko read Sergey Yesenin's Confession of a Hooligan, but because of the lispiness he caused laughter from the selection committee and Oleg Tabakov in particular. Oleg Pavlovich often asked the applicant how his name was. He replied "Yuri", and once again answered: "Gosh - as my mother called me as a child." So he became a student at the Moscow Art Theater School named Gosh Kutsenko. By the way, he later corrected the defect of diction.
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Tina Karol - Tatiana Lieberman
One of the most famous Ukrainian singers at birth was named Tatyana Lieberman. She officially changed her name after the 18 anniversary. And on the creation of it, according to Tina herself, a whole team worked, which understands names and destinies. The artist believes that another name is a different fate. And precisely because of the change of the name Karol came to the festival "New Wave - 1995", becoming popular after it.
Angelica Varum - Maria Varum
When Mary was still very young, the grandmother-polka called her Angel, that is, an angel. Therefore, at the very beginning of her singing career, she decided to take the pseudonym Angelica. In addition, the future pop star thought that it was wrong to go on stage with the name of the Holy Virgin. By the way, the family and friends of the singer call her Masha, and her colleagues - Angelica.
Valeria Gai Germanika - Valeria Igorevna Dudinskaya
Valeria Gai Germanika was born named Valeria Dudinskaya. But when she received her passport, Dudinskaya officially changed her name to Germanika. She also changed her middle name to Aleksandrovna. That was the name of her stepfather, who was actively involved in her upbringing. Unlike the biological father who left the family when the girl was not even a year old.
Ilya Oleynikov - Ilya Klyaver
The well-known film and theater actor, who became especially popular due to the “Gorodok” television program, was born in Chisinau into a Jewish family, Klaver. The same surname is in his son Denis, a famous singer, a former member of the group “Tea for two”. Ilya Lvovich himself took the pseudonym Oleinikov at the very beginning of his career on television. This is the maiden name of his first wife.
Leva Bi-2 - Egor Bortnik
Russian rock musician of Belarusian origin Yegor Bortnik became Left in his childhood when he lived with his parents in Africa (they called his father to teach radio physics at the university in the Congo). His dad gave his son a lion's canine, Egor hung it around his neck, and the children began to call him Leo. According to the singer, now even his mother calls him Left.
Nadezhda Granovskaya - Nadezhda Meikher
Well-known singer Nadezhda Meikher took the pseudonym Granovskaya back in 2000 year. So advised her to advise Konstantin Meladze, who took the girl in the first group of "VIA Gra".
Alexander Malinin - Alexander Vyguzov
For some time, the Soviet and Russian singer and composer bore the name Vyguzov. In 1988, on the 3 All-Union TV competition of young performers of the Soviet pop song in Jurmala, Alexander won the Grand Prix with the song "Bullfight". It was then that Stas Namin, the leader of the group “Flowers”, in which Vyguzov had previously performed, suggested Alexander to change his surname to a more harmonious one - Malinin. Although his mother's maiden name is Malinova, Stas suggested replacing the “-ov” ending with “-in”.
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Nastasya Samburskaya - Anastasia Terekhova
In an interview, the actress confessed that she had a difficult childhood: her father often beat her, her mother did not protect her. In her youth, Anastasia did not want her first name, Terekhova, to somehow connect her with her parents, older brother, and other relatives. Therefore, in 16 years, immediately after moving to Moscow, where she wanted to link her future with acting skills, she broke off all ties with her family and changed her last name to Samburskaya.
Katya Lel - Ekaterina Chuprinina
At the end of 1990-ies, Catherine graduated from the Academy. Gnesinyh and received a diploma of professional vocalist. After that, in 2000, the singer officially changed her last name to a more sonorous and corresponding to the inner “I” pseudonym - Lel.
Alexander Marshal - Alexander Minkov
According to the singer himself, the Marshal is not a pseudonym, but rather a nickname. So his name was from a young age, when he stood first in the gym class. He was also called in his youth, when Alexander was right-flank at the school due to his height. When Minkov began his solo career, he and the producer thought that this nickname would make a resounding pseudonym.
Irina Nelson - Irina Tereshina
Irina Nelson is a famous Russian singer, songwriter and producer, as well as the founder and soloist of the group Reflex. The real name of the artist is Tereshina. In 1990's, she performed under the pseudonym Diana, but then the project unexpectedly closed, and the contract with the record company was broken, and the Diana brand remained with her. Irina went with her husband to Germany, where they were invented a legend that the singer married a Swede Andreas Nelson, then divorced him, but left his last name. The girl began to act as Irina Nelson as part of her new group - Reflex.
Abraham Russo - Abraham Ipjyan
In one of the interviews, the singer said that he took the last name of his father - Rousseau - in 1994, when he began to pursue his career. And as the name he chose, he said, the most beautiful form of his real name in Russian.
Alla Dovlatova - Marina Evstrakhina
A well-known TV and radio host began working on radio in 1990. Marina came up with her creative pseudonym at the very beginning of her journalistic career: she always liked the name Alla, and her mother was a big fan of the writer Sergey Dovlatov.
Alexander Nevsky - Alexander Kuritsyn
Alexander Nevsky is a famous Russian film actor, film director, screenwriter, producer, writer, bodybuilder, public figure. And he calls himself Russian Schwarzenegger. In fact, the surname of Alexander is Kuritsyn. And he took the pseudonym Nevsky when the media started talking about him.
By the way, information also circulates on the Internet that Lev Leshchenko has a real surname Leshchev, Leonid Agutin in fact Leonty Chizhov, and Nadezhda Babkin and not Babkin at all, but Zasedateleva. We found out that all this is not true.
What do you think, who took a pseudonym for himself in vain?
