7 scandalous stories of show business, when the stars of the stars lost or almost lost their names

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

In early April, there was news that Yegor Creed might lose his stage name due to the expiration of his contract with the Black Star label. In show business, cases when an artist has to choose a new pseudonym because of a conflict with his producer or production center are not uncommon. The reasons for what is happening lie in the wording of the contracts, while both parties often consider themselves offended.

Egor Creed

Young singer Yegor Bulatkin, at the beginning of his career, changed his last name to a more euphonious and memorable pseudonym Creed. However, back in March, the singer's contract with Black Star Inc, concluded in 2012, ended. Both parties are in no hurry to renegotiate a cooperation agreement. It is only known that the conflict of interest arose against the background of the contractor's dissatisfaction with the amount of the fee received by the company. According to Yegor Creed, the label should receive, in percentage terms, no more than the performer himself. It is not known how the conflict will end, however, the general director of the company, Pavel Kuryanov, has already announced that if the cooperation ends, the right to the stage name of Yegor Creed remains with the label.

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Kristina si

Timati's Black Star label already had a precedent, during which the R'n'B-style performer was deprived of the right to perform under her stage name. Christina Sargsyan did not agree with the repertoire that the label imposed on her, but according to the terms of the contract signed in 2016, she had no right to change anything either in words or in music. All of Christina's attempts to convey her position to the leadership were unsuccessful. After the termination of the contract, Timati publicly announced that he would never allow the singer to perform under the pseudonym Kristina Si, and the court would be on his side, since all rights to the stage name were issued to the Black Star label.

Valeria

Alla Perfilova took the stage name when she was already a wife and at the same time a creative project of producer Alexander Shulgin. However, during a high-profile divorce in 2002, Alexander Shulgin went to court with a lawsuit, if satisfied, the singer would be prohibited from using her stage name, since the rights to it belonged to Shulgin, as a producer. However, no one could force the performer to abandon her own name. She simply applied to the relevant authorities with a statement to change her name, after which she won the case in court.

Dima Bilan

Dima Bilan followed exactly the same path when, after the divorce of producers Yana Rudkovskaya and Viktor Baturin, the latter tried to claim the stage name of the performer who appeared in the passport as Viktor Nikolaevich Belan. And in this case, a simple name change resolved all issues. Fortunately, these stage names were quite simple, and therefore there were no problems with changing the name and passport.

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Group "Prime Minister"

In 2005, the members of the "Prime Minister" group quarreled with their producer Yevgeny Fridlyand. The conflict arose on financial grounds: the performers were unhappy with their fees and decided to continue their careers on their own. All attempts to solve the problem privately were unsuccessful. The unfolding struggle and litigation for the "Prime Minister" brand ended in a complete victory for the producer, since the trademark with the name of the group was registered in Rospatent in the name of Fridland. The performers could not perform under their own names and had to change their name to "Group PM".

And the producer recruited new performers into the group with the already promoted name. True, in 2014 Vyacheslav Bodolika left the PM Group, and the rest of the participants returned to Evgeny Frindlyand.

Svetlana Loboda

The scandal ended the life and cooperation of Svetlana Loboda and her business partner Alexander Shirkov. The paradox of the situation was that the singer's name and surname are not a pseudonym, they were given to her at birth. However, Shirkov, offended by the departure of his beloved, tried to sue not only the rights to her repertoire, but also to the Svetlana Loboda brand, he did not succeed, but the performer nevertheless registered her LOBODA brand in 2010.

Mika Newton

The collaboration of Oksana Gritsai, known to the audience as Mika Newton, and her producer Yuri Thalesa began when the singer was only 16 years old. After 7 years, the performer decided not to renew the contract, but came across a complete misunderstanding on the part of the producer. The singer won the trial, in which Mika Newton defended her right not only to her stage name, but also to receive her due salary, but the producer, even after the judgment was read to him, did not want to put up with the departure of the promoted performer from under their influence.

Very often, creative people prefer to use not their real names and surnames in public life. For some, this is a way to divide the types of activities, for others it is an opportunity not to expose their lives to the public. There are also those to whom real names seem less euphonious than pseudonyms. Along with actors and singers, writers very often use pseudonyms.