The Why Behind the Sky

The Sky Report // 02

People ask me about it. They lean in a little when they do.

Where did “Jamila Sky” come from?

So here it is—the real story. Not a rebrand. Not a reinvention. Just a becoming.

Watson is my married name.

I’ve been divorced since 2009, and it remains my legal name today. Over the years, I’ve thought about changing it. Maybe one day I will. But names carry costs—tangible ones like paperwork and logistics, and intangible ones like history, identity, and memory. For now, Watson stays.

But Sky?

Sky was chosen.

Sometime last year, I met a friend’s daughter whose name is Skye. One of those small, ordinary moments that somehow lands differently. I remember feeling an instant connection—not just to her, but to the name itself. I even said out loud that I wanted to do something with it. I didn’t know what that meant yet. I just knew it mattered.

And sometimes that’s how clarity arrives—quietly.

Not long after, Jamila Sky began to take shape.

Here’s the simple truth: Sky makes me happy.

It brings me joy. It feels open, expansive, light—but still grounded. It reminds me to look up. To breathe. To imagine beyond what’s immediately in front of me.

And then there’s my first name. Jamila means beautiful.

So when you put it together—

Jamila Sky becomes beautiful sky.

That meaning wasn’t engineered. I didn’t reverse-engineer it for a brand or a platform. It revealed itself once I slowed down enough to listen.

Jamila Sky is not a rejection of who I was. It’s not an erasure of Watson. It’s not a departure from my past.

It’s an expansion.

It’s the name that holds my creative voice, my reflections, my storytelling, my joy. It’s where my work and my inner world meet. It’s the space where I get to be both grounded and aspirational, rooted and reaching.

Some names are given.

Some are inherited.

And some… you grow into.

For now—and for this season—Jamila Sky feels like home.

And that’s the why behind the Sky.