If I become a rap or hip-hop star, will I need to change my name?
I've been getting some odd email over the last couple of months. Well, I get odd email all the time, kind of goes with the territory. The thing that made these seem out of the ordinary though was the fact that people kept asking me about hip-hop and stuff like if I was touring or what.
So, today I did some research and Googled Dan Vado Rapper and this is what I found
According to his Facebook page Vado's real name is Teeyon Winfree and he hails from Harlem.
I decided to do a little checking around and see what other things my namesakes are up to. I found
Anyway, I already knew about the two other Dan Vado's floating around in the world. One I am actually related to (my Uncle's son) and the other is a guy who pops up from time to time and is kind of, well, odd. I guess if you count my uncle (whose name was Danillo and whom I am named after) there are three other Dan Vado's, but my uncles passed away a number of years ago.
I tried to get the Creative Labs people to give me a Vado when they released it, promising to talk it up, they said no. I bought one, it is cool but would have been cooler had they given me one for free, and to be honest the Flip is better.
The image of the El Vado motel is actually the desktop to my phone. There is a town in New Mexico called Vado along what used to be Route 66. The motel is now apparently a crack den that people have been trying to get closed for years but which historic preservationists keep trying to save. Last I heard the place was going to be renovated in some way.
Anyway, it's a small world. I listened to a little of Vado's tunes on his web page, but not being the target audience I can't tell you if it was any good or not. Neither am I the target audience for the Vado Hayride album, but you gotta love an album with song titles like Lookin Better Every Beer and You Don't Have to Go home Honey But You Can't Stay Here.
I do know this, I am no longer the Vado with the corner on cool.
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