British dance tune DJ Joey Negro is to fall his “unacceptable” stage name and instead stagger by his precise name, Dave Lee.

The transfer comes a day after fellow DJ The Dim Madonna stopped utilizing her salvage moniker, noting that it had precipitated “controversy, confusion, [and] misfortune”.

They’re amongst a different of acts who salvage changed their names in gentle of the Dim Lives Topic circulation.

Closing month, US bands Girl Antebellum and Dixie Chicks renamed themselves ensuing from hyperlinks with the slavery era.

Lee has had four UK top 40 hits and two quantity ones on the US dance club chart all over the last 30 years under the stage name. He also reached the UK top 10 three times utilizing the pseudonym Jakatta.

In a Fb put up on Tuesday, he admitted he had “no longer felt cheerful with the name Joey Negro for some time, especially as I’ve received older”.

‘Out of web convey online in 2020’

He wrote: “I perceive now though that it be no longer applicable for me to relief on utilizing the name.

“I’ve recently received emails, tweets and heaps others asserting that it’s unacceptable and folks accumulate it out of web convey online in 2020 – and I agree.”

He went on: “I’m sorry to salvage precipitated any offence. My whole lifestyles has been about tune however particularly black tune, I in actuality esteem soul, funk, disco, jazz in a capability that is unattainable for me to bellow in phrases and I salvage tried to champion it with the fully intentions.”

Lee stated he before all the pieces came up with the name by merging two of his favourite artists at the time – Friend Joey and J Walter Negro.

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On Monday, US DJ The Dim Madonna introduced she would stagger by the name The Blessed Madonna after a petition used to be launched for her to change it.

The producer, whose precise name is Marea Stamper, printed on Twitter that her chosen name used to be “a mirrored image of my family’s lifelong and profound Catholic devotion to a particular more or less European icon of the Virgin Mary which is murky in hue”.

Nonetheless, she added she “have to salvage listened more sturdy to other views”.

“My artist name has been a degree of controversy, confusion, misfortune and frustration that distracts from issues which are a thousand times more well-known than any single phrase in that name,” she wrote.

“We all salvage a accountability to prefer a undercover agent at and salvage an affect on distinct change in any design we can,” she added.

Other contemporary name changes in tune

• Chart-topping US country-pop community Girl Antebellum changed to Girl A ensuing from Antebellum has connotations with the slavery era. The Grammy-winning Nashville trio stated they took the name from an architectural model, however had been “deeply sorry for the hurt this has precipitated”. Nonetheless, the change has ended in a authorized dispute with a blues singer who already performed as Girl A.
• Fellow country band Dixie Chicks are in actuality correct The Chicks. “Dixie” used to be assuredly frail as a nickname for the southern states throughout the US Civil Battle era. The band’s Martie Erwin Maguire recently beneficial BBC Radio 4’s Entrance Row: “As speed family salvage been in actuality worrying in the US and in other worldwide locations, we have in actuality keep a microscope on that phrase ‘Dixie’ and it felt unlucky… We correct don’t have to salvage any affiliation with one thing that would even be hurtful to a community of folks.”
• In June, British file imprint One Puny Indian, which has released tune by Bjork, Sigur Ros and Paul McCartney’s aspect-project The Fireman, changed its name to One Puny Fair. Founder Derek Birkett stated he made the resolution after a fan outlined why the name – which uses an old-well-liked timeframe for the indigenous folks of the Americas – used to be offensive.