What's In A Name ?

This week we thought we'd take a closer look at the band and artist names in our Airplay community to see what popped out. So below is a word cloud of the most popular ones.










After seeing this we started to wonder, how did you pick your band/stage name? Drop your answer, band name/stage name and link to your Jango profile in the comments.

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