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Should i use my own name, or make up NEW names for my different music projects?

Asked by niki (714points) June 8th, 2009

currently, i have about three music style concepts for my compositions (& very possibly also the whole production).
one concept is in the genre of ‘epic symphonic rock’
second is in the genre of ‘electronic-jazz’ (i’ll most likely be producing the whole songs, also with my own vocal).
the third one is another wholly different music concept/project, on what i’d call ‘classical-pop’ genre (it’s going to be me playing piano & also vocal, but i’ll also add further arrangements like strings,etc).

so far, as far as i know,
using my own name (ie: niki wonoto) would have the pros of people knowing that it’s me (this ONE person) who’ve made all the different-genre/concepts songs.
but the ‘cons’ seems to be that it’s uncreative(?) , and also, it’ll be hard to differentiate between three such distinct & very different music genres , so it would be too ‘mixed-up’ ?

on the other hand,
if i think & come up with a new name (ie: also for the electronic, and classical-pop projects, even though it’s probably going to be just me by myself, home-recording everything) , the ‘pros’ is probably that it’s going to be interesting & creative(?) , and also, people would be able to easily differentiate between each of my music concepts/projects.
but the ‘cons’ : people probably would think of these “names” as different artists (not me) ?

what do you think?
and how does it usually go in the professional music scene/industry?
thanks!

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