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Kelly machine gun It’s a kiss, saying goodbye to your stage name.
The “Bloody Valentine” singer, whose birth name is colson bakerchanged his professional nickname to mgk more than a decade after his musical debut.
Starting February 29, your artist profiles on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal and Youtube read mgk to reflect the change. Likewise, his name on X (previously known as Twitter) was changed to the initials MGK, although his @machinegunkelly handle remained the same.
The name change comes more than a year after the comedy act. chad and jt requested to have “machine gun” from the musician’s alias so as not to “glorify machine guns.” As seen in a YouTube video from September 2022the duo asked MGK to make the switch at a concert using a large sign, prompting him to ask the audience, “What do you think?”
Although separate fan footage featured MGK, who shares the nickname Machine Gun Kelly with the famous Prohibition-era gangster. George Kelly Barnes—Ignoring the request at the time, the 33-year-old apparently changed his mind last November. While he attended 2023 GQ Men of the Year event with his fiancee Megan foxMGK asked attendees to call him by a new name.