Lily Allen changes her name

By Cindy Clark, USA TODAY

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Lily Allen attends Glamour Women of the Year Awards 2012 at Berkeley Square Gardens on May 29, 2012 in London. (Credit: By Fred Duval, FilmMagic)

First Snoop Dogg, er, Snoop Lion, now Lily Allen.

The British singer is changing her professional name to Lily Rose Cooper. The announcement comes as she heads back into the studio to record new songs. No release date has been set, but keep in mind that anything the Smile singer releases in the future will appear under her married name. She wed Sam Cooper on June 11, 2011.

In 2009, the writer/performer announced that after four years of touring, she was taking some time off. At the time, she also announced that she had no immediate plans to make another record. Since then she has married, had her first baby, started her own successful record label, created the clothing business Lucy In Disguise, and seen her track Who'd Have Known? become a hit in for T-Pain, under the title 5 O'Clock.