Christina Aguilera was 'dead set against' changing her name because it sounded ‘too Latin’

The Chicks are opening up about their decision to drop “Dixie” from their band’s name and revealed what they nearly changed their name to. In a move that came amid the rising Black Lives Matter movement, the country-pop band formerly known as The Dixie Chicks – which consists of Natalie Maines, Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire – appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on Thursday and spoke about the process coining their new moniker.

The Dixie Chicks is revealing how they came to pick their new name. The three women who make up the newly dubbed band The Chicks — Natalie Maines, Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire — appeared onon Thursday and discussed their decision to drop «Dixie» from their name.«It’s because of everything that’s going on in the world.

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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.

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Christina Aguilera was asked by executives to change her name earlier in her career.

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.