One of the most celebrated names in music history, David Bowie is one of many celebrities who changed their name. Bowie’s name given at birth was “David Robert Hayward-Jones“, not as recognisable or as catchy as David Bowie. Born in Brixton, London on 8th January 1947, his mothers side were of an Irish background and his father was from Doncaster, Yorkshire. Growing up David gained the reputation for being a gifted child, with a natural talent for singing and dancing.
At the age of only 18, Bowie, well David Jones at the time decided to change his name. One of the reasons for this was to not get confused with Davy Jones – another British musician of the time. David Bowie was fascinated by U.S. culture and is said that the 1960’s movie The Alamo was a big influence for his name change. Although we all know him as David Bowie, he would often experiment with different identities, such as Ziggy Stardust. Which he used for a number of years while promoting and performing the album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars“.
David Bowie was and still is a massive influence within music and fashion. And is still to this day considered one of the big trend setters within his field. Bowie would often produce and take up acting roles throughout his life; but would consistently make music up until his death in 2016. His death at the time was very unexpected. Only 2 days after his 69th birthday it was announced Bowie had died from an 18-month battle with liver cancer.
Many celebrities decide to change their names, more often celebrities tend to carry stage names that are not legitimate and legal name changes. Whatever the reason for a change of name, maybe your music career is taking off? It could be that you just don’t like your birth name? For a complete service we can have you name changed to whatever you want. Like Bowie this could help stand you out from the crowd and give you a fresh start to life.
