Terence Trent D'Arby

It suddenly struck me yesterday, as I found myself humming 'Sign Your Name' - what a ludicrous name. And nobody at the time, so far as I remember, commented on the daftness of the monicker. Perhaps it made sense in the '80's. It probably also helped that he's black and American, rather than, say, a nice middle class lad from Surrey. 

The eternal depositary of all truth, Wikipedia, tells me that he's now calling himself Sananda Maitreya, 'after a series of dreams'.