23 Old Country Music Stars Who Changed Their Names For Fame

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Ever wondered why the jukebox legends who built country music seemed to be born with perfect stage names? The truth is, most of those steel-guitar heroes and rhinestone queens walked into Nashville offices carrying driver’s licenses that would have stumped their biggest fans. Hiram King Williams, for example, sounded more like a small-town preacher than the hillbilly Shakespeare whose voice could crack a thousand hearts. Back in 1937, a radio promoter told the lanky Alabama teenager that “Hank” sat friendlier on a record sleeve, so Hiram vanished, Hank was born, and the Opry lights never looked back. Virginia Patterson Hensley got similar advice, but hers came wrapped in romance. Richmond barrooms already knew her as Ginny, yet managers swore the name was too prim for the high-stakes Opry circuit. When she married Gerald Cline, she borrowed his last name and shortened Virginia to Patsy, lifting the syllable from her own neglected middle name. Patsy Cline rolled through speakers like a convertible on a summer highway, and by the time “Crazy” hit number one, listeners would have sworn she’d been Patsy since the cradle.

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