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I wonder why he changed his name from Makkay to Maffay? 
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Many artist do this..
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The original sounds Scottish, the new one is more like an English name. He himself was a German immigrant from Romania in the 1960s. Strange.
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Normally just as a professional name but his children are Maffays as well.
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I suspect that it might not have been his own idea, originally. His real birth name was Peter Alexander Makkay and I suppose his record company didn't want him to be confused with Peter Alexander:I wonder why he changed his name from Makkay to Maffay?
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Once they were at it, they probably felt like streamlining the hard sounding Makkay into something smoother ...
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Interesting geological rock formation on the cover of this favourite 
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I met one of the guys from Typically Tropical in an Indian restaurant a few years ago. He was with a young local singer he was managing who had appeared quite frequently at events in the restaurant
