Stage name "h" from his original name, Stumph. It was still pronounced "stump," but the change ensured his audience wouldn't think to pronounce it "stumf." Singer Jason Derulo uses the phonetic spelling of his given name, Jason Desrouleaux. Andy Warhol dropped an "a" from his original name, Warhola, while couturier Yves Mathieu-Saint-Laurent dropped the first of his two surnames. Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi adopted the stage name Rudolph Valentino in part because American casting directors found his original surname difficult to pronounce. Singer George Michael (the son of a Greek Cypriot restaurateur in North London) was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou.
Kyriacos Tsolakis (SEKA), both of which he was a founding member. This was during a period which witnessed the Turkish invasion of Cyprus and the social and economic aftermath as well as a large relocation of Cypriots overseas. During the 1980s, Tsolakis helped the Cypriot banking industry set up in Melbourne, namely Cyprus Popular Bank and Bank of Cyprus. Upon his return to Cyprus in 1993, Tsolakis became President of Association of Repatriated Cypriots of Australia. In 1997, Kyriacos organized one of the first bi-communal meetings between Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot repatriates at the Nicosia Airport in the UN Buffer Zone,