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* Underground rapper The Jokerr raps from the persona of a medieval court jester imprisoned in a dungeon for twenty years with his videos featuring him in a red costume patterned after a joker playing card, he has recorded a large amount of songs unrelated to his persona though.

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* Underground rapper The Jokerr raps from the persona perspective of a medieval court jester imprisoned in a dungeon for twenty years with his videos featuring him in a red costume patterned after a joker playing card, he has recorded a large amount of songs unrelated to his persona though.
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*Underground rapper The Jokerr raps from the persona of a medieval court jester imprisoned in a dungeon for twenty years with his videos featuring him in a red costume patterned after a joker playing card, he has recorded a large amount of songs unrelated to his persona though.
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** One is a black "gangster" rapper suspected of rape/murder on a white woman. However, he he is actually quite naive and have no experience of real crime, his gangster persona being nothing more than a keyfabe persona. [[spoiler:The woman was one of his friends, and he ends up getting killed by a ''real'' gangster (who just happens to be white) as he's trying to help the detectives catch the real villain.]]

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** One is a black "gangster" rapper suspected of the rape/murder on of a white woman. However, he he is actually quite naive and have has no experience of in real crime, his gangster persona being nothing more than a keyfabe persona. [[spoiler:The woman was one of his friends, and he ends up getting killed by a ''real'' gangster (who just happens to be white) as he's trying to help the detectives catch the real villain.]]
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* The electro-industrial project Zombie Girl has singer Renee Cooper as the eponymous zombie, always appearing in corpse make-up and claiming to be undead in her lyrics.
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* Faxed Head supposedly met as teenagers in Coalinga, California, had a suicide pact that left them deformed in various bizarre ways, then decided to form a death metal band together. In reality, their lineup included Mr. Bungle guitarist Trey Spruance and [[NeilHamburger Gregg Turkington]].

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* Faxed Head supposedly met as teenagers in Coalinga, California, had a botched suicide pact that left them [[BodyHorror deformed in various bizarre ways, ways]], then decided to form a death metal band together.together. Thus they'd typically perform wearing strange masks. In reality, their lineup included Mr. Bungle guitarist Trey Spruance and [[NeilHamburger Gregg Turkington]]. They would also sometimes open for themselves as their supposed "rival" group The Bon Larvis Band, trading the masks for more of a typical bar band look and playing an OverlyLongGag-laden parody of blues-rock.
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* [[DeathMetal Death]][[GrindCore grind]] band Brujeria is ostensibly made up of Mexican drug lords who always perform in masks to hide their identities from the FBI.

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* [[DeathMetal Death]][[GrindCore grind]] band Brujeria is ostensibly made up of Mexican drug lords who always perform in masks to hide their identities from the FBI.
FBI. However, most of their members past and present are already well-known from other acts.
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* [[DeathMetal Death]][[GrindCore grind]] band Brujeria is ostensibly made up of Mexican drug lords who always perform in masks to hide their identities from the FBI.
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* In a 2012 interview with OprahWinfrey, FiftyCent says that is onstage "thug" persona is this. His real self, Curtis Jackson, is a family man.
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* Stovokor is a death metal band consisting entirely of [[StarTrek Klingons]].

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* Stovokor is a death metal band consisting entirely of [[StarTrek [[Franchise/StarTrek Klingons]].
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* Faxed Head supposedly met as teenagers in Coalinga, California, had a suicide pact that left them deformed in various bizarre ways, then decided to form a death metal band together. In reality, their lineup included Mr. Bungle guitarist Trey Spruance, and [[NeilHamburger Gregg Turkington]].

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* Faxed Head supposedly met as teenagers in Coalinga, California, had a suicide pact that left them deformed in various bizarre ways, then decided to form a death metal band together. In reality, their lineup included Mr. Bungle guitarist Trey Spruance, Spruance and [[NeilHamburger Gregg Turkington]].

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* Faxed Head supposedly met as teenagers in Coalinga, California, had a suicide pact that left them deformed in various bizarre ways, then decided to form a death metal band together. In reality, their lineup included Mr. Bungle guitarist Trey Spruance, and [[NeilHamburger Gregg Turkington]].
* The Space Balloons claim to be lost travelers from the planet Balloonia. The concept is mainly adhered to in performances and the songs themselves, though, not interviews.
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* Stovokor is a death metal band consisting entirely of [[StarTrek Klingons]].
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* IndustrialMetal artist [=MortIIs=], for a long time, was never seen without his troll mask on, with it's pointed nose and big ears. In 2005 for his album ''The Grudge'' his mask took on a more artificial appearance, looking like it had been stitched and stapled to his face. After that, however, he finally removed the mask.

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* IndustrialMetal artist [=MortIIs=], {{Music/Mortiis}}, for a long time, was never seen without his troll mask on, with it's pointed nose and big ears. In 2005 for his album ''The Grudge'' his mask took on a more artificial appearance, looking like it had been stitched and stapled to his face. After that, however, he finally removed the mask.
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* Singer EmilieAutumn seems to always be in character as Emily-with-a-Y from her book to some extent.
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* Buckethead is in fact the guitarist from...Guns 'n' Roses, I think. On stage, however, he is a frightening man with a KFC bucket on his head and a thoroughly disturbing oeuvre.

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* Buckethead {{Buckethead}} is in fact the guitarist from...Guns 'n' Roses, I think. On stage, however, he is a frightening man with a KFC bucket on his head and a thoroughly disturbing oeuvre.
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* DaftPunk's persona is of a couple of robots.
* LadyGaga went to her little sister's graduation in [[ImpossiblyCoolClothes full Gaga regalia]]. She later said that she considers her entire life to be part of her 'character'.

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* DaftPunk's Music/DaftPunk's persona is of a couple of robots.
* LadyGaga Music/LadyGaga went to her little sister's graduation in [[ImpossiblyCoolClothes full Gaga regalia]]. She later said that she considers her entire life to be part of her 'character'.
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* IndustrialMetal artist MortIIs, for a long time, was never seen without his troll mask on, with it's pointed nose and big ears. In 2005 for his album ''The Grudge'' his mask took on a more artificial appearance, looking like it had been stitched and stapled to his face. After that, however, he finally removed the mask.

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* IndustrialMetal artist MortIIs, [=MortIIs=], for a long time, was never seen without his troll mask on, with it's pointed nose and big ears. In 2005 for his album ''The Grudge'' his mask took on a more artificial appearance, looking like it had been stitched and stapled to his face. After that, however, he finally removed the mask.
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* IndustrialMetal artist MortIIs, for a long time, was never seen without his troll mask on, with it's pointed nose and big ears. In 2005 for his album ''The Grudge'' his mask took on a more artificial appearance, looking like it had been stitched and stapled to his face. After that, however, he finally removed the mask.
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* {{GWAR}} has a long backstory about them being aliens banished to Earth.

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* {{GWAR}} has a long backstory about them being aliens banished to Earth.Earth, and like Lordi are never seen out of costume.
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* And then there's the Gorillaz, who take this to the max.

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* And then there's the Gorillaz, {{Gorillaz}}, who take this to the max.max (namely they're a BandToon in the real world, and that's not even going into their individual backstories).

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* And then there's the Gorillaz, who take this to the max.
* Buckethead is in fact the guitarist from...Guns 'n' Roses, I think. On stage, however, he is a frightening man with a KFC bucket on his head and a thoroughly disturbing oeuvre.

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* Devo has gone through a few permutations of this; it's essentially them, except with sci-fi bases, an idiot manager that doesn't understand them, a giant baby (Booji), and their...uh...leader, General Boy. They always did claim to be a corporation, which got a lot funnier in the mid-90's when they reformed as a soundtrack company.
** And then there's bass player Jerry Casale's side-album as Jihad Jerry, essentially Stephen Colbert as a Muslim blues musician.

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* {{Music/Kraftwerk}} are robots, who became less human as time progressed.
* {{GWAR}} has a long backstory about them being aliens banished to Earth.
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* In'' {{Blutengel}}'' the singers are vampires.

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* In'' {{Blutengel}}'' Music/{{Blutengel}}'' the singers are vampires.
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* Members of the German band Coppelius usually play their XIX-century aristocratic personas in public.
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* ''{{Pondus}}'' believe that a certain rock band truly live the creed of "Drugs, Sex & Rock'n'Roll". In one strip, the band is shown working out and eating healthy food. Suddenly their manager come in and yell at them that the journalists will be there any minute. And thus, they quickly trash themselves down to look as if they have been partying and boozing up all night. Then the scene switch to Pondus and his wife watching the television. A journalist is (or probably rather pretend to be) surprised that the band members manage to stay healthy with this lifestyle. The singer explains this with "It's rock'n'roll", baby. It becomes a lifestyle." and Pondus try to get his wife to accept this message as gospel.

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* ''{{Pondus}}'' believe In ''{{Pondus}}'', Pondus believes that a certain rock band truly live lives the creed of "Drugs, Sex & Rock'n'Roll". In one strip, the band is shown working out and eating healthy food. Suddenly their manager come in and yell at them that the journalists will be there any minute. And thus, they quickly trash themselves down to look as if they have been partying and boozing up all night. Then the scene switch switches to Pondus and his wife watching the television. A journalist is (or probably rather pretend is pretending to be) surprised that the band members manage to stay healthy with this lifestyle. The singer explains this with "It's rock'n'roll", baby. It becomes a lifestyle." and Pondus try tries to get his wife to accept this message as gospel.
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* At the live {{Vocaloid}} concerts, The band is real enough - but the lead "singer" is a projected image (and not really a singer at all).

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* At the live {{Vocaloid}} concerts, The the band is real enough - enough, but the lead "singer" is a projected image (and not really a singer at all).

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Two categories of examples: "Real Life Music" for bands that exist in real life, and "other media" for bands that are a ShowWithinTheShow.

Compare "{{Kayfabe}}" from ProfessionalWrestling. Contrast AnonymousBand, where the mucicians simply hide there identities, and FakeBand, where the band itself is fictional.

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Two There are two categories of examples: "Real Life Music" for bands that exist in real life, and "other media" for bands that are a ShowWithinTheShow.

Compare "{{Kayfabe}}" from ProfessionalWrestling. Contrast AnonymousBand, where the mucicians simply hide there identities, and FakeBand, where the band itself is fictional.
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Compare "{{Kayfabe}}" from ProfessionalWrestling. One subtrope is RobotOrSpacemanAlterEgo. Contrast AnonymousBand, where the mucicians simply hide their identities, and FakeBand, where the band itself is fictional.
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* ''ManOWar'' consist of really manly men, fantasy heroes who are always ready to kill anyone. With STEEL, of course.

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* ''ManOWar'' consist consists of really manly men, fantasy heroes who are always ready to kill anyone. With STEEL, of course.
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* Lead-singer Jem from JemAndTheHolograms (is a holographic projection protecting the identity of Jerrica, the company owner).

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* Lead-singer Jem from JemAndTheHolograms (is a holographic projection protecting the identity of Jerrica, the company owner).owner).
* In ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}} Arthur]]'', the band ''Binky'' is made of up {{Hologram}} musicians and synthesized sounds. Apparently an open secret, as the episode on the band has them materialize from nowhere during a live performance.

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