hat's behind the nickname??    artier explains:


"The name Cartier came about this way:  When I first started working at Gravity Studios in Chicago, there were two other engineers working at the studio named Joshua and Joe...  Long story short, it just became too confusing to have so many “J” names bouncing around the studio.   My last name is Cutsinger, so everyone at the studio quickly started calling me “Cutter.”  However within a few weeks, this somehow morphed into the moniker “Cartier.”  

At first everyone claimed that the nickname existed because I was: "Expensive & Luxurious.”  Later, I was demoted to:  “Luxurious, yet Affordable.”  A selling point for the studio I am sure...  Regardless of the circumstances of how the “nickname” came about, after having the name appear as my sole credit on a few records, it just stuck.  From then on out, I had no choice but to be know as “Cartier.”  It has come to the point that only my family and some friends from high school refer to me by my birth name.  To all others, I am know as “Cartier.”  Well I digress, I suppose that the utility companies and my credit card company still wants me to use my real name...   But to those in the Music Industry, I am often known solely as “Cartier.””  

Such is my lot in life...     It could be worse!

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