Hey,
If you have an artist name or stage name, how did you end choosing that particular name? I am currently working at releasing my debut EP in September, and I have been working a lot on my artist name. My Norwegian birth name isn't so international friendly, and it can give foreign languages a hard time pronouncing it correctly.
I have been looking at making my born name, a more international twist to it. So now I got "Elijah Blue". "Eli" came from the middle-name that I rarely use, and "A" and "H" are the starting letters of my first- and surname, and "Blue", well, I have blue eyes.
But I wasn't completely happy about that name, so I went back to the "thinking-box" last night. I was thinking about something "Viking-ish", cause Norway --> Vikings, and my American girlfriend calls me "her Norwegian viking", so I "LOKI" came to my mind, after checking a website over Viking names to give to a baby. But, there is a Norwegian artist here that calls himself "LOKE", and don't want to be confused with him. But I also wanted to have part of my original name "Andreas" in the name.
So I think I have finally come up with a new name, that is international friendly. "Luke Armstrong". "Luke" is the English name for "Loki", and "Armstrong" is an interpretation of my name "Andreas", where "Andreas" comes from Greek "Andros" and means "Man, strong" etc.
Just my thoughts on how I moved on to find my artist name before I start releasing albums on Spotify etc.