Performance Name of a Person

A Performance Name is an alias used by a musician, for either marketing or other reasons. A particular person may have several Performance Names, and might also release material under their LegalName.

For this reason, it's sometimes necessary to create multiple separate artist entries for the same person in the database.

Style

SameArtistWithDifferentNames contains details about how and when to use PerformanceNames and LegalNames.
Note that only persons have LegalNames, not bands.

Examples

Elvis Costello is the Performance Name of Declan Patrick MacManus.

Bono is the Performance Name of Paul David Hewson.

Aphex Twin, AFX and Caustic Window are all Performance Names of Richard David James.

Additional Readings

Once familiar enough with the resources accessible from the top navigation toolbar, you may find convenient to have direct access to the following pages:

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Resources discussing some specific difficulty or advanced topic:

If you're interested into either the future or the past, you possibly want to take a look at ArtistFuture (which lists known bugs and our super secret new masterplans), and ArtistHistory (obviously listing closed bugs and past masterplans).

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