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Geddy Lee of Rush
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The Rush frontman's parents were Polish Holocaust survivors who got married a few months after their concentration camp was liberated. The bass player and high-pitched vocalist was actually born Gary Lee, but when his mother tried to pronounce his name in her Yiddish-influenced Polish accent, it wound up sounding more like "Geddy." The name stuck and he eventually had it legally changed.
