Looking at the Wikipedia list of stage names, it seems like most of them change their names not to hide racial origins (though there is plenty of that) but to simplify names that are complex or hard to pronounce.
Sting didn’t want to have to write out Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner every time he signed an autograph.
A counterexample is Engelbert Humperdinck (aka Arnold George Dorsey).
Anyway, the Democratic party is supposed to be a big-tent party and not care about race or ethnicity in their candidates. Some do, including Superdelegates, which is how we ended up with Joe Biden in 2020, who was the most right-wing candidate except for billionaire Michael Bloomberg (who is essentially a Republican).
Looking at the Wikipedia list of stage names, it seems like most of them change their names not to hide racial origins (though there is plenty of that) but to simplify names that are complex or hard to pronounce.
Sting didn’t want to have to write out Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner every time he signed an autograph.
A counterexample is Engelbert Humperdinck (aka Arnold George Dorsey).
Anyway, the Democratic party is supposed to be a big-tent party and not care about race or ethnicity in their candidates. Some do, including Superdelegates, which is how we ended up with Joe Biden in 2020, who was the most right-wing candidate except for billionaire Michael Bloomberg (who is essentially a Republican).