{"id":242343,"date":"2025-12-20T06:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T06:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/242343\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T06:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T06:46:08","slug":"27-famous-people-who-changed-their-names-before-becoming-famous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/242343\/","title":{"rendered":"27 Famous People Who Changed Their Names Before Becoming Famous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      Her full name is Eilleen Regina Twain.<\/p>\n<p>On why she changed her name, she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundslikenashville.com\/news\/shania-twain-reveals-reason-changed-name\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">explained<\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019s actually a long story. In short, I was born Eilleen Regina Edwards, and then I was adopted and I became Eilleen Regina Twain. Then I became a professional singer and I needed a stage name that sounded a little less like my grandmother\u2019s name, because I\u2019m named after my grandmother, both my grandmothers, Eilleen and Regina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think, in my mind, I was just not really wanting to be called my grandmother\u2019s name onstage, so I decided to change it to Shania Twain,\u201d she added. \u201cI met somebody with the name Shania, thought it was beautiful, and Shania Twain was born.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Her full name is Eilleen Regina Twain. On why she changed her name, she\u00a0explained, \u201cIt\u2019s actually a long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,17299,18,117,4152,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-242343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-dib-celebs","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-evergreen","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115750553930746418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}