I have some news that I'll just quietly put here and then share more widely when I am ready.
My nickname is “Tang”. I have had it since the ‘90’s. I am very attached to it. It's part of my identity. Some people don't even know my real name, because I was introduced to them as Tang and Tang I have always been to them. There is a story to how I got it. It's a bit rude so I'm not telling it here - but the beloved friend Jason who gave it to me passed away suddenly, quite recenly. So this makes it all the more precious to me.
Anyway, waaaay back when I first ended up as a singer sans band (which is another story) and decided that I wanted to keep performing nonetheless, I picked the name “Tangled” randomly, as a play on that nickname. I didn't know what I was going to do, exactly as a solo artist. I didn't expect to release music - I don't know what I was expecting. Definitely wasn't expecting what actually happened. That's also another story.
But the point of THIS story is that what I didn't think about was the fact that Tangled is copyrighted by Disney. I also didn't consider the probably more important fact that searching for “Tangled” on any social media platform returns thousands of entries for Disney and DIsney-adjacent content. It does not return me!
So although I would dearly, dearly love to keep my artist name - especially for Jason - after having a lot of chats about this with people, I am going to go ahead and change the name I use. Very boringly, I am going to just use my own, actual name - Tanya Aquino. Why am I using my own name? And why now? Well, that will be the subject of a blog post another day :)
OK it's late where I am, and I have a day job to go to so I must away to bed. Have a lovely day or night whatever time it is you're reading this. Go forth and be happy. As someone said to me today and it made my day - I appreciate you.
