[mb-users] Wendy/Walter Carlos

[Rob Keeney]

I read all of that, that's not the point. Even out of respect for her
apparent interest in attributing all of her past work to her current
name (as evidenced by the re-release and re-titling of earlier albums
w/ Wendy) I think MB has a different agenda. There are numerous
examples of artist name changes for trivial to significant reasons.
What is our standard practice for that?

On 1/31/07, Andrew Conkling <andrew.conkling at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/31/07, Rob Keeney <largo84 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So, what about Wendy (form. Walter) Carlos? The earliest works were
> > released under Walter. Then s/he had a sex change operation and now is
> > known as Wendy. IMO, the Walter releases should be listed as Walter
> > Carlos, etc.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Carlos
> > http://musicbrainz.org/show/artist/?artistid=21919
> >
> > I am inclined to add Walter as an artist and move the releases
> > accordingly but wanted to see what the MB community thought about it
> > first. What say you?
>
> I don't have much to say with regards to this, but check out what I
> just happened to find on ArtistName:
> "The perennial example of this is [WWW] Wendy Carlos ([WWW] Wikipedia
> page). She was born "Walter Carlos", but had a sex-change operation in
> 1972. Even after her name was officially changed, albums were released
> under "Walter Carlos", on the basis that this would make them more
> saleable."
>
> Does that help at all?
>
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