Christina Aguilera Says Execs Asked Her to Use a Stage Name Because Hers Was ‘Too Ethnic’
Christina Aguilera by an entirely different name — but she luckily fought against it.“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,” the Grammy winner, 39, told Billboard in an interview published on Friday, June 26. “‘Christina Agee’ was an option, but that clearly wasn’t going to fly.”Aguilera added, “I was dead set against the idea and I wanted to represent who I really was.