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When recording vocals for a new album as The Fireman, Paul McCartney found himself feeling a little uptight – a problem he solved by inventing an alter ego named Gladys Jenkins. “That way, when you go to the microphone, I don’t think of it as going as Paul McCartney and it frees you up,” he told Channel 4. “I’d say, ‘Right, you’re going to become Gladys Jenkins.’ It was quite thrilling. That’s how we approached 'Sgt. Pepper’s.’ It’s like you’re playing instead of working.” —Jeff Royer (Photo: Ethan Miller, Getty Images)
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Beyonce / Sasha ...Beyonce invented her alter ego Sasha Fierce to separate her wild onstage persona from her more reserved everyday self. "I've created an alter ego: things I do when performing I would never do normally. I reveal things about myself that I wouldn’t do in an interview. I have out-of-body experiences [on stage]. If I cut my leg, if I fall, I don’t even feel it. I’m so fearless, I'm not aware of my face or my body,” she told Marie Claire. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Ethan Miller, Getty Images)
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Lady Gaga / Jo C...Lady Gaga’s androgyny has been part of her allure since the beginning of her career, and even sparked the widespread rumor that she is a hermaphrodite. She took her gender-bending to the next level with her appearance at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards as male alter ego Jo Calderone, an Italian from New Jersey who performed Gaga’s song “You and I,” flirted with Britney Spears and ran his mouth at the media. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Kevin Winter, Getty Images)
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Miley Cyrus / Mi...Miley Cyrus rose to fame via a pair of alter egos on the Disney Channel – normal teenage girl Miley Stewart and her pop star secret identity, Hannah Montana. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Christopher Polk, Getty Images)
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Mariah Carey / M...On her 2005 album “The Emancipation of Mimi,” Mariah Carey debuted an alter ego she claimed was closer to her true self than the Mariah she showed to the public. "Mimi is a very personal nickname only used by those closest to me... just one of those little things that I’ve kept for myself in an attempt to have some delineation between a public persona and a private life,” she told MSNBC. “I am letting my guard down and inviting my fans to be that much closer to me… I’ve grown into a person and artist who no longer feels imprisoned by my insecurities or compelled to try and live up to someone else’s vision of ‘Mariah Carey.’” —Jeff Royer (Photo: John Shearer, Getty Images)
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Katy Perry / Kat...Katy Perry introduced a new alter ego in the video for “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” - Kathy Beth Terry a dorky doppelganger with her own Facebook page and Twitter account. “I'm 13 and in the 8th grade,” Kathy Beth’s Twitter profile says. “I like Sudoku puzzles, the solar system, high-school science fairs, Skip-It, Weenie Babies and LOVE JTT!” —Jeff Royer (Photo: Graham Denholm, Getty Images)
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Eminem / Slim Sh...Eminem developed Slim Shady as a more extreme version of his own personality – and as a way of justifying some of his more offensive and violent raps. "Slim Shady is just the evil thoughts that come into my head, things I shouldn't be thinking about,” he explained on his website. “Not to be gimmicky, but people should be able to determine when I'm serious and when I'm messing around. That's why a lot of my songs are funny. I got [sic] a warped sense of humor, I guess." —Jeff Royer (Photo: Kevin Winter, Getty Images)
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Garth Brooks / C...Garth Brooks introduced the character of Chris Gaines as a means of exploring pop music after building a career in country music. His album “The Life of Chris Gaines” peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and yielded Brooks’ first and only Top 40 hit, “Lost in You.” —Jeff Royer (Photo: Frazer Harrison, Getty Images)
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Nicki Minaj / Ha...Rapper Onika Tanya Maraj has the market cornered on alter egos with no fewer than seven that appear on her albums, from the brash Nicki Minaj to the childlike Harajuku Barbie to the flamboyant Roman Zolanski and his British mother Martha. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Ethan Miller, Getty Images)
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David Bowie / Zi...David Bowie has unveiled more alter egos than most artists have albums, from the androgynous space alien Ziggy Stardust to the scarily suave Thin White Duke. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Andrew H. Walker, Getty Images)
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Janet Jackson / ...In 2004, Janet Jackson unveiled an alter ego named Damita Jo, which is also her middle name, to explore her sexuality in a more explicit way. She released an album of the same name featuring such songs as “Moist” and “Sexhibition.” "My sexuality has been an ongoing discovery and theme. With 'Damita Jo,' I push the envelope a little further,” she told Upscale. “As an artist, that's not only my passion, it's my obligation." —Jeff Royer (Photo: Pascal Le Segretain, Getty Images)
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Hank Williams / ...Country legend Hank Williams adopted the alter ego Luke the Drifter in 1950 in order to record religious songs that didn’t gel with his image as a hard-drinking, drug-abusing rebel. —Jeff Royer (Photo: File photo, AP Images)
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The Beatles / Sg...The Beatles invented their fictional counterparts as a means of indulging in more experimental sounds. It worked – “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band” is regularly named by critics as the greatest album of all time. —Jeff Royer (Photo: BIPS, Hulton Archive, Getty Images)
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Joni Mitchell / ...Joni Mitchell raised plenty of eyebrows with her risqué alter ego Art Nouveau, a black male she portrayed on the cover of 1977’s “Don Juan's Reckless Daughter.” —Jeff Royer (Photo: Central Press, Hulton Archive, Getty Images)
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Prince / CamilleWhile no one ever accused Prince of excessive machismo, the Purple One looked like a regular Charles Bronson compared to his feminine alter ego, Camille. Prince recorded one solo album in 1986 under that name, but it was sadly never released. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Donald Miralle, Getty Images)
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Mary J. Blige / ...Mary J. Blige formed the rapping alter ego Brook Lynn when she guested on a Busta Rhymes track, and later gave her naughty creation her own track on 2005’s “The Breakthrough.” “I had to separate the two because Mary is nice, you know, intelligent," she explained to MTV News. "Brook is crazy and ignorant and she don't [sic] care." —Jeff Royer (Photo: Isaac Brekken, Getty Images)
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Laurie Anderson ...For much of her career Laurie Anderson used voice modification to deepen her singing voice to the masculine register for an effect she called “audio drag.” The lower voice is often used as a character in Anderson’s work, what she’s called the “voice of authority.” The alter ego, which Anderson portrays in a mustache and exaggerated eyebrows, was named Fenway Bergamot at the suggestion of her husband, Lou Reed. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Brendon Thorne, Getty Images)
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Paul McCartney /...When recording vocals for a new album as The Fireman, Paul McCartney found himself feeling a little uptight – a problem he solved by inventing an alter ego named Gladys Jenkins. “That way, when you go to the microphone, I don’t think of it as going as Paul McCartney and it frees you up,” he told Channel 4. “I’d say, ‘Right, you’re going to become Gladys Jenkins.’ It was quite thrilling. That’s how we approached 'Sgt. Pepper’s.’ It’s like you’re playing instead of working.” —Jeff Royer (Photo: Ethan Miller, Getty Images)
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Justin Bieber / ...The Biebs surprised and confused his legion of preteen fans by slipping on a thick pair of glasses and releasing a rap song under the alter ego Shawty Mane. "You guys might know me as the guy, y'know, who sings 'Baby,' y'know ... I'm a singer ... I'm white,” he says in the video for “Speaking in Tongues.” “But y'know, I just wanted to do this just to prove that I got [sic] skills on the rap game, so yeah, what up ...." —Jeff Royer (Photo: Rick Diamond, Getty Images)
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David Johansen /...After sparking the American punk rock movement as the singer of the New York Dolls, David Johansen did an abrupt about-face in the late 1980s with the establishment of his lounge-singing alter ego Buster Poindexter. What began as a semi-joke blossomed into a semi-phenomenon as the Latin jam “Hot Hot Hot” became an international hit. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Frazer Harrison, Getty Images)
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Bono / The Fly /...Like many outsized rock singers before him, Bono has used the aid of multiple alter egos, the most famous of which is the “Achtung Baby”-era The Fly, which he described on U2.net as a man making "a phone call from hell, but liking it there." Joining The Fly are the Mirror Ball Man, a satirical take on American televangelists, and MacPhisto, described on the site as “a depiction of the Devil as a tired, old pop star who's been reduced to playing the Las Vegas circuit.” —Jeff Royer (Photo: Frazer Harrison, Getty Images)
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