What’s in a name? Say the name Afie Jurvanen to a passerby and it may not mean much to them. That is by design. Jurvanen has discovered through experience that being elusive and difficult to define works in his favour, not only when it comes to his stage name but his genre of music too (although the Juno Awards have tried their level best to fit him into a category). The Canadian musician, better known as Bahamas, has been around the proverbial music-industry block a few times since he broke onto the scene in the early 2000s. Back then, he didn’t have a name besides the one he was born with, which he never liked. “When I first started, I didn’t like the idea of being Afie [pronounced ‘ay-fee’],” he explains. “I just thought that was a weird name, and nobody could pronounce it. It’s been the curse of my existence. When I was a teenager, I would get teased about my name.”
Jurvanen, who is of Finnish heritage, grew up in Barrie, Ontario. There isn’t a complex or elegant origin story to the name Bahamas. The word was easy to pronounce and, although it didn’t occur to him at the time, Bahamas conjures up positive images even before he begins to play. “It really filters how people hear the music, you know? If I had been called something else, like Graveyard or something like that, people would have a really different impression of the music.”
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