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What's in a name? [iStockphoto]

"Names have power," said Rick Riordan, the writer of The Lightning Thief, the first book in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. He wasn't wrong. Names give brands a life, which in the arts, translates to awareness, then popularity and depending on content and a bit of luck, wealth.

In choosing their brand names, artistes are looking for inspiration far and wide, and oftentimes, at home.

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