{"id":664,"date":"2021-01-14T23:51:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T23:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lucidletters.uk\/?p=664"},"modified":"2021-10-13T16:35:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T15:35:45","slug":"crumbs-of-the-carylcake-a-post-mortem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucidletters.uk\/thoughts\/crumbs-of-the-carylcake-a-post-mortem\/","title":{"rendered":"Crumbs of the CarylCake: A Post-Mortem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
I started off with my real name, as many up-and-coming artists do, and at the time I was Caryl Sumner. I always felt a bit awkward over this, because my first name is confusing enough for people without adding a surname with the phonetic anomaly of an ‘mn’ sound. The number of times I was mislabelled as ‘Carly’ and\/or ‘Summer’ are too many to count, and yes I have even been called Carl<\/em> on several occasions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think this lack of confidence in even telling people my name went a long way to undermine my confidence as a newbie musician, uploading tracks online for the first time at the age of 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Rise of CarylCake<\/h2>\n\n\n\n