11 Celebs Who Explained The Meaning Behind Their Stage Name, And 11 Who Shared Why They Won’t Use One
Uzo Aduba once asked her mom if she could change her name to Zoe. “I remember she was cooking, and in her Nigerian accent, she said, ‘Why?’ I said, ‘Nobody can pronounce it.’ Without missing a beat, she said, ‘If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.’”
