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Christina Aguilera Says Music Execs Thought Her Name Was 'Too Ethnic'

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about the experience and why she adamantly refused their requests."I remember when I was first coming up, there was a big debate around me on changing my last name because all the businessmen around me thought it was too long, too complicated, and too ethnic," she says.The singer has a rich heritage: her father was born in Ecuador, while her mother has German, Irish, Welsh, and Dutch ancestry.

Instead of celebrating her diverse background, sadly, execs wanted to erase it. Thankfully, Christina had the against it. "'Christina Agee' was an option, but that clearly wasn’t going to fly," she adds. "I was dead set against the idea and I wanted to represent who I really was.

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