I'm thrilled to reveal that as of tonight, I'm back to being Sally after being Sali for so long. The brief history behind the spelling of my name began when I had a TV show on Japan's NHK channel called "New Yorkers" from 1993 until 2003. Back then, I changed the spelling of my nickname, Sally, chosen by myself when my family first arrived from Japan as a somewhat anglicized version of my given name, Satoko, to Sali. At the time, I thought it was unique and modern, but over the years as I continued to use the uncommon spelling as a musician and blogger, I realized it actually made me more obscure by being harder to search for. Tonight, I metamorphosed into Sally again when I used Sally O. Kimmel as my new name for copyright.
So, here I am, the other half of Fred and Sally, a new band that my husband Fred Kimmel and I have formed, with our new song, "Heartbeat Sky" officially authored by Sally O. Kimmel and Fred Kimmel. From Sally to Sali Oguri to Sali O, and back to Sally but using Kimmel alongside my husband for the first time for my music, I feel like I've become exactly who I'm meant to be at this moment in time, doing the music that I've always wanted to do authentically as a singer songwriter, not alone but with the love of my life.
For the time being, I'm retaining the name Sali O for this blog because Crystal Rhapsody is also the name of my first full album following PINK MANHATTAN, an EP I released under Sali Oguri along with a blog by the same name as well as a perfume in 2005.
Sally the Witch, an anime character who inspired my choice for a nickname when I was little, also had a name change from Sunny to Sally, although I don't think it was during my lifetime. (Edited to add: In fact, I'm not sure I'd ever actually seen the anime, but I loved the opening theme song that my parents owned on a record, with the ending theme song (probably) on the B side. They (my dad, mostly) once had quite the record collection which they brought to New York.)
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