What is an American name? What Bob Dylan and Chloe Bennet have in common.

Sherry-Lynn Lee
8 min readJul 1, 2021

Some of the biggest names in entertainment industry were Wonsal, Gershowitz, Bulsara, Beilin, Konigsberg. Don’t recognize any of them? Perhaps you are more familiar with the Anglicized versions: Warner, Gershwin, Mercury, Berlin, and Allen?

Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, and Ralph Bellamy in a promotional picture for the film “His Girl Friday”. Photo: Pixabay.

After my last article on the music industry’s celebration of AAPI Heritage Month, I was invited to…

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Sherry-Lynn Lee

LA-based writer, artist, producer who used to be a Silicon Valley engineer. Mauritian, Canadian. Hosts award-nominated Nuances Podcast. https://nuancespod.com