publication date: Thursday, June 30, 2005 (part of Round XXVI)

category: Music

clue: How many musicians do you know whose first name is a punctuated sentence?

explanation: Will.i.am was a founding member of the dance music group Black-Eyed Peas. He used punctuation to turn his first name into a full-sentence stage name. more…

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Erik Bates, Amy Austin, Jerry Mathis, Aaron Fischer, and E. M.


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