Voltaire (legal name Aurelio Voltaire Hernández) (born January 25, 1967, in Havana, Cuba), is a Cuban-American musician popular in the goth scene. His stage name is his given middle name, which he shares with the famous French Enlightenment writer François-Marie Arouet.
Voltaire is also an experienced animation and comic artist, and is a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
In the past, when asked about his real name, Voltaire avoi...
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Voltaire (legal name Aurelio Voltaire Hernández) (born January 25, 1967, in Havana, Cuba), is a Cuban-American musician popular in the goth scene. His stage name is his given middle name, which he shares with the famous French Enlightenment writer François-Marie Arouet.
Voltaire is also an experienced animation and comic artist, and is a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
In the past, when asked about his real name, Voltaire avoided the question or implied that his real name is in fact Voltaire.
According to the School of Visual Arts where he is employed as a professor, Voltaire's real name is Aurelio Voltaire Hernández. Voltaire attributes "Acoustic Guitar and Vocals" on Ooky Spooky to Aurelio Voltaire Hernández, confirming that is his real name. Since then he has signed his name as Aurelio Voltaire, and is more open about it in public appearances.
Voltaire chose to use his middle name as his performance name because his namesake "saw through the hypocrisies of...
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