For <reasons> when I first started making music for and by myself, I decided I needed an artist name to operate under. So I picked the name “Tangled” as a play on my nickname*.
But now - it's time for Tangled to be laid to rest.
Why? Because Disney. Well, mostly but not entirely.
You can imagine. If I appear at all in a search on social media - or even Google - it's at the very very very bottom of a really long to the point of unscrollable list of Disney and Disney-adjacent content. Not to mention the covers of “Let it Go” that kept landing in my artist profile and I had to keep requesting be removed!
So anyway. I had a lot of chats about this with people. Had some quite good suggestions for a new artist name (Untangled was one - which I quite liked - from my friend Lily). But in the end, I am going to just use my own, actual name - Tanya Aquino. Why? And why now? Well, that might 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 my friend (and awesome drummer) Andrew said to me today (and it made my day) - I appreciate you.
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* My nickname, if you're interested, is Tang and it was given to me by my dear friend Jason, who passed away suddenly, quite recently. I miss him. And I won't go into how I got it, because it's not family friendly ;)