Artist names you're unsure of how to pronounce

Phonetically in the Eastern U.S.: Linitt. Linott might be a mid-western variant. I doubt Lie-not would be in play. In any case, he's one of my favorite musicians even if I am way off base on pronouncing his name. Dunno how he'd be pronounced in the UK, but I'm certainly game to learn.

[Edit] Well, I was off to sleep, but now I've got listen to Whiskey in the Jar and Cowboy Song...

 

I'm not sure about Les Rita Mitsouko...any help?

 

Is it a G of a J with both of these?

Genya Ravan

Gillian Welch

 

Ian McLagan is supposed rhyme with 'wagon' but most people say Mc-Lay-gan

 

Grove-ner, I think.

 

Thanks.

 

Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane)
Mariska Veres (Shocking Blue)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk

 

I think it’s pronounced Yorma Cow cannon. Looks like Cow conen tho.....

How about Rory Gallagher? Here in the States, it would be pronounced Galla ger. I saw a docu on him, and his brother pronounced it Galla her.

 

Not at all, carrot has the same first syllable as 'carry,' whereas ferret the first syllable sounds like 'fair.'

That may be a NY metro area thing.

I just asked my wife (from Northern CT) and she says they rhyme. She also says 'carry' and 'fairy' rhyme, which is just not the case. Carry is like fat and fairy is like fare. (I know some (South Westchester/Bronx) people who swear that fairy and ferry are different, though I say them the same.)

Anyway, slightly off topic diversion, here's a fun accent quiz:
What American accent do you have?

back on topic, my point was re: Syd Barret, the accent is definitely on the first syllable, not the second. As for the first, I'm envisioning the way an Englishman pronounces 'barrister' which is not at all like 'bare-wrister.'

 

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How about a few more replies from those in the know???

 

Slade

 

It's pronounced "Jones".

 

Joao Gilberto gives me pause for thought. I'm not entirely sure how to say it.

 

"Gillian" is pronounced like a "G".

Rhymes with "noggin" doesn't it?

 

Scottish butterfly Eddi Reader; is it, "Reeder", or "Redder"?

 

Mr. West?
Can-yeh? Can-i-yeh? Or something completely different?

 

See post #66

 

Kloi-brrr Kl-eye-thog

Er Troi-nigh Kork

Dim problem. Croeso.

 

Regina Spektor. Does her first name rhyme with what I think it rhymes with?

 

COWconen is right.

re: Gallagher: In the Irish language, the letter 'h' only exists to modify other letters. G is hard g, and gh is basically a throaty h. Most people in Ireland don't speak Irish day to day, but those sounds are all over 'Hiberno-English"

 

Of course not. Don't be silly.

 

Only if she's named after the capital of Saskatchewan.

That city is a little bit south of Saskatoon:

 

Andy Warhol......"hol"...........as in "hols".........

 

Have you listened to the song of the same name by the Sugarcubes?

 

As fellow Dutchie I heard her name always being mentioned in Holland as ve RES. The problem is that Mariska Veres has a gipsy background, so I don 't know for sure how her own family would pronounce their last name. I think however the same.