The Story Behind Your Artist Name

by **electro_doll** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 5:22 pm

Rockdude9k wrote:It was my AIM screen name that I made when I was 14.

Oh ya the 9k is a reference to Hal9000...ya I was a nerd.

hahahaha, thank god everyone doesn't just use their AIM names from age 14. My artist name would be "Cooties005"

by **lotionsandoils** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 1:08 pm

was a joke band a friend and i came up with, two generic overly hip and cool Italians named Lozioni and Oli were to make poorly translated Technotronics style dance music.

sadly, not a joke any more. Though, i'm sure to some, it still is.

soundcloud.com/lotions-and-oils

by **ReinMan** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 6:39 pm

Okay.

My first name is SCOTT. Second given name REINIER.

At 40 years old I could no longer continue to afford the therapy necessary to convince me that I am NOT an artist. So I surrendered to that fact. And i realized that "Scott" is not (to me, no offense to other great artists called Scott) the best of "artist" names. But "Reinier" on the other hand rocked! I mean, really - it is spelled backwards and forwards the same!!!! So I formally switched over to Reinier deSmit (which is also my dad's name - which I think is kinda cool).

After the Tom Cruise/Dustin Hoffman movie "RainMan" came out I was doomed to ReinMan.

Definitely... definitely ReinMan.

by **the_charles** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:05 pm

Christopher Charles Bohlsen, hence The Charles. Went through loads of other names, but that's the one that stuck. And it sounds classy as f*%@.

by **Scott Jackson** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 5:34 am

the_charles wrote:Christopher Charles Bohlsen, hence The Charles.......And it sounds classy as f*%@.

Just how classy is f*%@?

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P.S. Good thing your name wasn't Christopher John Bohlsen!

Your artist name would then be 'The John'.

by **darudevil** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 7:47 am

When I was studying my first year in Turku Polytechnic we had a party at my classmate's apartment. We were eating and drinking and playing records and I guess I was feeling really, umm, "happy" (= I guess I can say 'wasted' among adults...) as I played one favourite track of mine of that time, 'Rudeboys' by Leila K, several times in a row. In short, it's because of that my friends started kind of mockingly calling me 'Rudeboy'. I started using that as a nickname online and as my artist name when I started making music. Later on it got shortened to 'da Rude' (I didn't wanna be a 'boy'

) which was then put together by the graphic artist when the single cover for my first single 'Sandstorm' was made; it looked visually better like that so... 'Darude'.

by **Halo_isGod** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 12:44 pm

Element a440 is what I titled my band.
All music is referenced to the pitch of "A" or 440Hz, and Music is the one "element" in my life that helps me maintain and deal with all of the other elements that life can throw at you on a day to day basis. We all resonate at a frequency anyways and music to me, is an extension of that.. it can medicate, or amplify any emotion. It is like oxygen to me... without it I would die.
facebook.com/elementa440.music

by **Beer Moth** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:25 pm

All music is referenced to the pitch of "A" or 440Hz,

Not in Germany.

by **Dr Benway** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 4:23 am

My band is called Paris and the Hiltons and there is no intelligent reason for it. It was funny to me in 2007 and it feels natural to me now. I wouldn't change it just because of how silly it sounds — but I perhaps should have picked more wisely.

by **Halo_isGod** » Fri Sep 30, 2011 9:52 pm

Beer Moth wrote:
All music is referenced to the pitch of "A" or 440Hz,

Not in Germany.

oh ok, my bad! It WAS a generalized statement... Maybe i should've said most common tuning used around the world ...

by **Rev. Juda$ Sleaze** » Sat Oct 01, 2011 4:23 am

Halo_isGod wrote:
Beer Moth wrote:
All music is referenced to the pitch of "A" or 440Hz,

Not in Germany.

oh ok, my bad! It WAS a generalized statement... Maybe i should've said most common tuning used around the world ...

...for instruments tuned to western equal-tempered tuning... after 1939...

I like the Indian virtuosic classical approach; spend years meditating to find your own reference pitch, then all your accompanying musicians have to tune to you. Sounds more like the approach used when I played in disorganised rock bands, you just tune to whoever sounds most in tune, who knows what actual notes you're playing in relation to A=440Hz!

by **DejanSav** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 3:20 am

I picked my name of the first letters of my five dogs.

by **juha-pekka kuusela** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:27 am

i use JPQ in my net music project comes my first name and added James Bond Books/Movies based fictional charter called Q.

by **BigJimmy** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 1:19 am

the reason for my bad name is because we are men and we have feelings hence the name of our band is called man feelings

by **thedigitalprincess** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:08 pm

The Digital Princess...
Well, when I was a kid of 15, I was really into UK Happy Hardcore and loved a song called "Angel Eyes" by DJs Brisk & Ham, so I called myself Angel Eyez (changing the s to a z for purposes of "originality", which turned out to be not so original) because my real name "Lara Schilling" does not sound musical by any means. A few years on, I was studying music business and was partnered up with another student for an assignement to promote a "new act" with a press release pack. Because it was for fun, we decided to do my own "act". We required all these things including an event (CD launch), photos, biography etc and we needed a tagline. My partner immediately came up with "The digital princess of electronic romance, shining a light of hope onto the darkness of the cold dancefloor". I produced crappy dance music with sappy lyrics, so there we go, The Digital Princess stuck.
Now at 23, I have buried my Happy Hardcore collection deep in the archives and watch all my friends listen to that stuff whilst I sit here in my KMFDM shirt, haha.

by **Rev. Juda$ Sleaze** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 3:56 am

thedigitalprincess wrote:...whilst I sit here in my KMFDM shirt, haha.

Now there's a welcome blast from the past!

by **Eriksimon** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:03 pm

thedigitalprincess wrote:...my real name "Lara Schilling" does not sound musical by any means.

Well, it made me remember your German cousin (or father...???)

by **jkaintplayin** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 12:18 pm

electro_doll wrote:
Rockdude9k wrote:It was my AIM screen name that I made when I was 14.

Oh ya the 9k is a reference to Hal9000...ya I was a nerd.

hahahaha, thank god everyone doesn't just use their AIM names from age 14. My artist name would be "Cooties005"

Haha hilarious. My name came about cuz "JK" stands for the both parts of my last name. Everyone started calling me that in grade school and it just stuck

by **thedigitalprincess** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 2:14 am

Eriksimon wrote:
thedigitalprincess wrote:...my real name "Lara Schilling" does not sound musical by any means.

Well, it made me remember your German cousin (or father...???)

I hadn't heard of him until a few years ago. My grandmother's maiden name was Noiman which was SO DAMN CLOSE to Neumann. Dammit!
I look more like Trent Reznor and Alan Rickman as Severus Snape had a child.

by **virgo** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 5:47 am

We got ours from a function of Cubase way back on the Atari...

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