Candy is a pretty big stretch from that. I know he was probably surrounded by Willies and Bills and Wills and Arties, ...
I guess he could have smushed his names together and gotten Wart, but even Candy's better than that.
In the eighties, among hair-metal musicians, it was a sort of fad to rename themselves with girls' names, as part of their glam image. So there were apparently headbangers who were called Jani and Rachel and Kristy, as stage names. But that fad, like hair metal, is passed.
We don't need to set the sky on fire. A little glow will do just fine.
Bob Ross