A Virginia highschool soccer coach’s fumble helped encourage Shaboozey‘s stage identify.

The man had initially misspelled the outlaw nation star’s precise surname, which led the artist, born Collins Obinna Chibueze, to undertake Shaboozey as his nickname and later use it as his official alias within the music business, Billboard reported Oct. 3.

And the coach wasn’t the one one to initially get his final identify flawed. The son of Nigerian immigrants, Shaboozey—whose surname means “God is king” within the Igbo language—spoke about his expertise attending highschool in Woodbridge, Va., a suburb exterior of Washington D.C., with a reputation that many individuals discovered troublesome to say appropriately.

“Hearing your name [mispronounced] during attendance was always a thing,” the “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” singer advised Billboard. “You felt like you had to make it easier for everyone else to understand.”

Shaboozey had additionally mirrored on the origin of his stage identify in an interview this previous summer time.