Main Artist Name Inspiration

Marina and the
Diamonds

Florence and the
Machine

In my research it has come apparent to me that several other female Indie singers have given themselves a more ‘Indie’ sounding name and made it more into a band. Two main artists who have done this are ‘Florence and the Machine’ and ‘Marina and the Diamonds’. The ‘and the’ followed by a noun representing the backing band has been portrayed as an Indie style and therefore I have decided to give the artist my main article is on a similar name. To do this I took my models actual name (Georgina) as this was a name I like and felt sounded right and then brainstormed different nouns to company it with ‘and the’. I finally came down to two names I felt where fitting and representative of the genre. These were ‘Georgina and the Sparrows’ and ‘Georgina and the Eskimos’. Personally I felt that ‘Sparrows’ was a better option but to be sure I took a quick poll among several people fitting my target audience. The results came back with ‘Sparrows’ on top so therefor this is the one I’m going with.