The Black Madonna changes name to The Blessed Madonna

American DJ and electronic musician The Black Madonna has changed her moniker to The Blessed Madonna, following online pressure, including a Change.org petition. After the change, The Blessed Madonna (real name Marea Stamper) said "The name was a reflection of my family’s lifelong and profound Catholic devotion to a specific kind of European icon of the Virgin Mary which is due in hue. People who shared that devotion loved the name, but in retrospect I should have listened harder to other perspectives". She continues - "My artist name has been a point of controversy, confusion, pain and frustration that distracts from things that are a thousand times more important than any single word in that name".