recent name change in response to the amplified global conversation on race.The US DJ-producer, whose real name is Marea Stamper, said last month that she “should have listened harder to other perspectives” about her stage name – in response to a petition that urged her to change it.Now, in an interview with The Guardian, Stamper said the decision and process was “a very Catholic experience” because it showed her commitment to acting on her principles.“There was no way that my name was not going to go through the prism of race,” Stamper told the publication. “In the end, I decided to let go of what is, in some ways, the very deepest part of who I was to show people who I am.”She continued: “I was thinking about Christ in the garden at.
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