The hardest to pronounce musician names.

If you're not Italian, try to say correctly "Albergo Intergalattico Spaziale"... it was a group that released in 1978 a private pressing album very close to Hawkwind or first Tangerine Dream

Ed_The_Dead wrote: Try to say" Brzêczyszczykiewicz", guys

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It's not hard to pronounce, but a lot of people (mostly English-speakers) say many of the Flower Kings' names wrong...  Roine Stolt, Tomas Bodin, Jonas Reingold, Zoltan Csorsz (ex-TFK), Hasse Froberg and Brunuissen...  all of those names have at least one oft-mispronounced word.

Politician wrote: Not certain about the most difficult musician's name, but I do have an album (progressive jazz-fusion) in my collection by a French band called NPTOLPQSIVRT.

Surely that's an acronym?

Progbear wrote:   Actually, I think the hardest to pronounce correctly (for people outside of Finland, anyway) is that of the late, great sax player Pekka Pöyry. For the record, his name is not, I repeat not, pronounced “Poi-ree”.

Yeah, I can imagine Pöyry must be a very difficult name to pronounce for a foreigner . The band Höyry-Kone is probably rather difficult too.
 

BaldJean wrote: not a name, but something that comes to my mind: the German word "Streichholzschächtelchen" is supposed to be the most difficult to pronounce for foreigners. I am no native speaker of German, and I definitely agree; that word is a true tongue twister. but apparently Germans have no problem with it at all. oh, by the way: the word means "little box of matches"

I think it's great that German should have a word for "little box of matches".

What about "floccinaucinihilipilification" for a hard to pronounce English word? I can't even say it myself. It's much worse than "antidisestablishmentarianism" (at least I can spell that)(I hope).

My favourite strange English name is "Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond ". Not hard to pronounce, but why have a double-barrelled name with both barrells the same?

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Brynjulf Blix from Terje Rypdal’s band, perhaps? What a cool name, in any case.

Actually, I think the hardest to pronounce correctly (for people outside of Finland, anyway) is that of the late, great sax player Pekka Pöyry. For the record, his name is not, I repeat not, pronounced “Poi-ree”.


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I'm not going to laugh at any other nationalities, but some names sound sometimes wicked.

Imagine, e.g. such situation outside Sweden Who is favourite drummer? Oh, it is Huxflux Nettermalm from Paatos. Quite unusual name, isn't it. BTW, Paatos are great.

The Polish names are also great, I ask Anglo Saxons to try to pronounce Józef Skrzek (Scksheck and it will not of course sound like genuine polish) or Czes³aw Wydrzycki (real name of late Czes³aw Niemen).

So please send the prog musicians names that sound weird in your opinion.