Aurelio Voltaire Hernãƒâ¡ndez Then and Again
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| Nascency name | Aurelio Voltaire Hernández[1] |
| Also known as | Voltaire |
| Born | (1967-01-25) Jan 25, 1967 Havana, Cuba |
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| Years active | 1998–present |
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| Website | world wide web |
Aurelio Voltaire Hernández [ii] (born Jan 25, 1967[three]), professionally known as Aurelio Voltaire or simply as Voltaire, is a Cuban-American musician, vocalizer, and composer. His professional name is Voltaire, his given middle-proper noun.
Proper name [edit]
In the past, when asked about his real name, Voltaire avoided the question or implied that his real name is in fact Voltaire.[iv]
Voltaire chose to use his middle name as his performance name considering his namesake "saw through the hypocrisies of humanity and commented on them through satire. In essence, he was able to brainwash people almost the world around them by making them laugh."[5]
Co-ordinate to the School of Visual Arts where he is employed as an teacher, Aurelio Voltaire's real proper name is Aurelio Voltaire Hernández.[ane] Voltaire attributes "Acoustic Guitar and Vocals" on Ooky Spooky to Aurelio Voltaire Hernández, confirming that is his existent name. Since then he has signed his name as Aurelio Voltaire, and is more open about it in public appearances.
His stage proper name is at present "Aurelio Voltaire" for the following reason: "I got tired of there being other people releasing albums as Voltaire. In that location's an indie band in Germany and some American guy who makes instrumental hip hop. Like, practise these people not practise a fuckin' Google search before naming their bands? Anyway, it was just easier to distinguish myself from them by using my first name."[6]
Background [edit]
Aurelio Voltaire's male parent died when he was 4 months quondam. At ten months old, Voltaire emigrated to New Jersey with his mother and sister remarried. Nonetheless, he states that he did non enjoy residing there, stating he was a victim of bullying considering of his heritage and foreign hobbies and interests.[3] At the age of ten, Voltaire was inspired by the films of Ray Harryhausen (Jason and the Argonauts, The seventh Voyage of Sinbad), and began animating on a super 8 camera. By piecing together snippets of information from fanzines, he eventually was able to teach himself how to make foam safe animation models and animate them. His stepfather was abusive, considering Voltaire's strange hobbies and interests to indicate he was homosexual. A family friend sexually molested him from infancy into his teenage years. His girlfriend at the time committed suicide, which made him consider doing the aforementioned.[7] Before he followed through, he promised himself to live ane more day, doing and maxim what he wanted to do and say. This allowed him to stand to the people who were bullying him, and instantly elevated his self-esteem. Though he considered committing suicide over again the next day,[ citation needed ] he was able to hold it off indefinitely. At the age of 17, he ran away from abode and moved to New York Urban center. His start task there was an animator with Parker Brothers.[viii] Voltaire says that he loves New York, and that the only other place he would be happy living is Tokyo.[5]
Musical mode and career [edit]
Voltaire's music has strong roots and connections to European folk besides as other influences such as the goth scene.[8] However, many listeners observe his music hard to classify. Although it has a sound reminiscent of European folk music,[8] many people merits it to be dark wave; perhaps every bit this is a label often given to many other artists from Projekt Records, and a word often used to hateful many things past the characterization themselves.[9] His music has likewise been linked to cabaret, with Lexicon Magazine using the term "goth cabaret", possibly referring to night cabaret, a term frequently used to draw some bands Voltaire cites as his influences. Voltaire has likewise been linked to the steampunk scene with Victorian-era horror related subjects, and some of his visual and music styling, and in contempo years he has become a favorite at major steampunk conventions such as the Steampunk World'due south Fair.[ten] New wave has also been used to draw Voltaire's music past some reviewers.[11] Voltaire describes his own music every bit "Music for a parallel universe where electricity was never invented and Morrissey is the queen of England". He says that bands and artists who influenced his music are Rasputina, Morrissey, Tom Waits, Cab Calloway and Danny Elfman.[12]
The first band that Voltaire played in (during inferior loftier school) was called "First Degree". At this age, he was a fan of Duran Duran, but then began listening to gothic music, nearly notably bands such equally Bauhaus and The Cure. Information technology was not until later that he began participating in the goth scene; it did not at first occur to him that there was a goth scene at all.[5]
As an developed, Voltaire formed a band which included a violin, a cello, drums, and himself as the vocalizer and the acoustic guitar player. Within a year, Projekt Records signed them and by June 1998 they released their showtime album called The Devil'due south Bris. Two years later their 2nd album, Almost Human was released.[v]
One of Voltaire'southward popular hits is "BRAINS!", a song written for the Cartoon Network show The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, aired in the episode "Footling Rock of Horrors". He as well wrote "Land of the Dead" for Billy and Mandy'due south Large Boogey Adventure, which plays in the opening sequence.[xiii]
As an avid fan of Star Expedition, Aurelio Voltaire ofttimes attends scientific discipline fiction conventions, and released a 4 track EP called Banned on Vulcan. It was a set of comedy recordings poking fun at characters from the show.[13]
On the side, Voltaire is also the lead vocalizer of a New York City based new moving ridge quintet known equally The Oddz.[14]
Voltaire performed a musical special for Artix Entertainment in their MMO game AdventureQuest Worlds, altering some of his songs in To the Bottom of the Sea to suit their standards. Over 32,000 players attended. It was released at 8:00 pm on Friday the Thirteenth of March 2009.
On September 2, 2011, Voltaire released his eighth studio album: Riding a Black Unicorn Downwards the Side of an Erupting Volcano While Drinking from a Chalice Filled with the Laughter of Small Children. Participating musicians include Rasputina frontwoman Melora Creager on cellos, Brian Viglione on drums, former Bauhaus bassist David J on bass and Franz Nicolay on squeeze box.
On September 2, 2012, Voltaire released his ninth studio album, BiTrektual. Information technology contains songs parodying Star Trek, Star Wars and Medico Who, and featured guest appearances by Jason C. Miller, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang and Robert Picardo.
In 2014, his tenth anthology, Raised by Bats, was released. Contrasting with the dark cabaret instrumentation of most of his anthology, Raised by Bats is more death stone—and gothic rock-inflected, and it counted with guest appearances by Ray Toro of My Chemical Romance, Craig Adams of The Mission, Julia Marcell and much more.
Band members [edit]
Although often credited and pictured as a soloist,[13] Voltaire has a band. His band occasionally performs in live acts,[xv] but does non characteristic on his alive album, Live!.[sixteen] The current lineup is:
- Vocals/Guitar: Aurelio Voltaire
- Violin: Hannah Thiem
- Violin: Maxim Moston
- Violin: Ben Lively
- Cello: Melora Creager
- Drums: Brian Viglione
- Bass: David J
- Horns: The Cerise Hook Ramblers
- Accordion: Franz Nicolay
- Banjo: Smith Back-scratch
- Tuba: Joe Tuba
Goggle box [edit]
Voltaire was hired for his commencement directing job in 1988 with MTV, creating the "MTV-Bosch" station ID in the style of Hieronymus Bosch. The stop motion tour of the hellish Garden of Earthly Delights won several awards including a Circulate Design Award.[17] [ failed verification ] This station ID was included in a capsule of 21st[ citation needed ] century media that was shot into space. He has too made morbid station IDs and for clients such every bit Drawing Network, Sci-Fi Channel and its Animation Station block, USA Network, and Nickelodeon.
Too his work with commercials, he has made curt films and serial such as Rakthavira and Chi-Chian. Chi-Chian, based on an ID he did for the Sci-Fi Aqueduct, is now a 14-episode flash animated series on Syfy's website.[eighteen] Before that, Chi-Chian started out as a comic book series that included half-dozen issues (published by Sirius Entertainment), which eventually evolved into the Flash-blithe serial.
He currently teaches stop motility blitheness at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, equally well as animating, directing, and singing.[three] [viii]
Voltaire has written 2 of his songs especially for the TV show The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: "BRAINS!" and "Land of the Dead".[ citation needed ]
Appeared on the Discovery Channel series, Oddities, in 2012, buying a "slice of brain" for a music video prop.
On his YouTube aqueduct The Lair of Voltaire, Voltaire publishes the video serial Gothic Homemaking, a guide to gothic style.[nineteen]
Film [edit]
Voltaire has acted in movies. One moving-picture show he appeared in as the grapheme "Verrill", was Model Hunger (2016). He additionally contributed a cameo every bit the exorcist Altair in The Velocipastor in 2017.
Voltaire volition be appearing in visual companion content for American Murder Song every bit Unwed Henry.[1] The showtime video featuring his character was released at the 2016 Steampunk World's Fair and afterwards YouTube.
Art and writing career [edit]
In addition to Chi-Chian, Voltaire has also produced a comic book serial chosen Oh My Goth!, too known as OMG!, which started as his ain viii-folio religious tracts inspired by Jack Chick. Stories include him beingness chased past minions of Satan equally they try to prevent him from playing his next testify. These short pieces oft led to data near his next prove. Subsequently ii bug of the Chi-Chian series were published, he convinced Sirius Amusement to publish Oh My Goth!, which included four issues that were later collected into a trade paperback. Voltaire has also made a sequel to the OMG series called Oh My Goth! Humans Suck! [20]
Voltaire has also produced a DEADY serial besides equally releasing books such equally What is Goth?, Paint it Blackness, and "Call of the Jersey Devil", a novelization of a script of the same proper noun.[20]
In early on 2004, for his DEADY comic book, Voltaire signed a bargain with Toy2R. The first toy that was created was a two-inch posable DEADY primal concatenation for the visitor's "Qee Bear". Information technology was released at San Diego Comic Con and sold out. A second effigy, an 8-inch DEADY effigy was created in January 2005 and could exist redeemed on aqworlds for a rare non-member only digital pet.[twenty] In June 2007 the Deady Minigame was released on ebilgames.com, a site hosting various minigames created by Artix Entertainment. AE's Massively multiplayer online game AQWorlds too featured a Friday the 13th event featuring songs past Voltaire. Voltaire voiced his in-game persona for the occasion. In 2008, Voltaire shot the Animation short film X-Mess Detritus.[21] The movie was the third film of his directorial career; the others are Transrexia (1993), Rakthavira (1994) and Transrexia II (2008).
In mid-2013, Voltaire had written a novel called 'Call of the Jersey Devil' which is available on Amazon. He is currently writing some other novel called 'The Legend of Candy Claws' which is about a bat that steals candy from naughty children on Halloween, and gives it to good children on Christmas. Co-ordinate to his official Facebook page, he was in the process of making Candy Claws Plush Teddies. (after his Black Unicorn / My Little Pony Costly Teddies were a huge success).
Personal life [edit]
Voltaire married his long-time girlfriend, Jayme, on October 1, 2009, at the Angel Orensanz Center in New York Urban center.[22] Voltaire has a son, Mars, from a previous relationship, built-in in 1998.[five] Voltaire is an agnostic.
On September 25, 2013, Voltaire announced on his official blog, that he and his married woman were to be divorced. Maxim, "On October 1st of this twelvemonth, my married woman and I would be jubilant our quaternary year hymeneals anniversary. Unfortunately, it's not to be. Later almost 4 years of marriage and a couple more of dating, nosotros are parting ways. It saddens me then deeply that things didn't piece of work out. It's been a difficult procedure for both of us to come to this decision, i that I really don't wish upon anyone. Zippo is worse than seeing your all-time friend in hurting."[23]
He is currently engaged to Mayumi Toyoda.
Books [edit]
- Voltaire (2002). Oh My Goth! Version two.0. Sirius Amusement. ISBN 1-57989-047-4
- Voltaire (2003). Oh My Goth!: Presents the Girlz of Goth!. Sirius Entertainment. ISBN 1-57989-061-X
- Voltaire, Chris Adams, David Fooden (2003). Chi-Chian: The Roleplaying Game. Aetherco/Dreamcatcher. ISBN 1-929312-03-ii
- Voltaire (2004). Deady the Malevolent Teddy. Sirius Entertainment. ISBN 1-57989-083-0
- Voltaire (2004). Deady the Terrible Teddy. Sirius Entertainment. ISBN 1-57989-077-6
- Voltaire (2004). What Is Goth? – Music, Makeup, Attitude, Wearing apparel, Trip the light fantastic, and General Skullduggery. Weiser Books. ISBN one-57863-322-2
- Voltaire (2005). Deady the Evil Teddy. Sirius Amusement. ISBN i-57989-081-4
- Voltaire (2005). Paint Information technology Black – A Guide to Gothic Homemaking. Weiser Books. ISBN ane-57863-361-three
- Voltaire (2007). Deady: Large in Japan. Sirius Entertainment. ISBN 1-57989-085-7[20]
- Aurelio Voltaire (2013). Phone call of the Jersey Devil. Spence Urban center. ISBN i-93939-200-4
- Aurelio Voltaire (2013 / 2014) The Fable of Candy Claws
Discography [edit]
- The Devil's Bris (1998)
- Almost Homo (2000)
- Boo Hoo (2002)
- Then and Again (2004)
- Ooky Spooky (2007)
- To the Bottom of the Sea (2008)
- Hate Lives in a Small Town (2010)
- Riding a Black Unicorn Downwardly the Side of an Erupting Volcano While Drinking from a Chalice Filled with the Laughter of Small Children (2011)
- BiTrektual (2012)
- Raised by Bats (2014)
- Heart-Shaped Wound (2017)
- What Are the Oddz? (2019)
- The Blackness Labyrinth (TBD)
Compilations [edit]
Tracks by Voltaire too appeared on these compilation albums, sorted past twelvemonth.
- Spooky Songs for Creepy Kids (2010)
1999
- Unquiet Grave #three (Cleopatra Records)
- Featured a remix of the song "The Human Upstairs".[20]
2000
- Promo 11 (Projekt Records)
- Featured the vocal "Anastasia".[24]
2001
- Promo 12 (Projekt Records)
- Featured the song "Anastasia".[25]
- Tori Amos Tribute: Songs of a Goddess (Cleopatra Records)
- Featured the song "Caught a Lite Sneeze".[26]
2002
- Promo 17 (Projekt Records)
- Featured "The Vampire Social club".[27]
- Projekt: Gothic (Projekt Records)
- Featured the song "When Y'all're Evil".[28]
2003
- Projekt: The New Face of Goth (Projekt Records)
- Featured the songs "BRAINS!" and "Goodnight Demon Slayer".[20]
- Promo 21 (Projekt Records)
- Featured the song "The Vampire Club".[29]
2004
- Foreign every bit Angels: A Tribute to The Cure (Failure to Communicate Records)
- Featured the song "Lovesong".[30]
- Holiday Single 1 (Projekt Records)
- Featured the song "Peace in the Holy Land", past Voltaire, featuring Unto Ashes.[31]
- Promo xx (Projekt Records)
- Featured the song "The Vampire Club"[32]
- Promo 23 (Projekt Records)
- Featured the song "The Vampire Club"[33]
2005
- A Nighttime Noel (Projekt Records)
- Featured the song "Peace in the Holy Land", by Voltaire, featuring Unto Ashes.[34]
2006
- Where's Neil When You lot Need Him? (Dancing Ferret Discs)
- Featured the song "Come up Sweet Death", past The Oddz, with Voltaire.[35]
- The Projekt Almost Free CD (Projekt Records)
- Featured the song "Cannibal Cafe (Promo Mix)"[36]
- .2 CONTAMINATION: A Tribute to David Bowie (Failure to Communicate Records)
- Featured the vocal "China Girl".[37]
- Comatose Past Dawn Magazine Presents: DJ Ferret'due south Underground Club Mix#2 (Dancing Ferret Discs)
- Featured the vocal "Day Of The Dead".
2007
- Almost Free CD 2007.one (Projekt Records)
- Featured the song "Zombie Prostitute".[38]
2008
- To The Lesser of the Sea (Mars Needs Music)
- Voltaire's first wholly cocky-produced and cocky-released album.
- Songs from the album were performed by Voltaire through an avatar in the online game AdventureQuest Worlds.
2009
- Every Machine Makes A Mistake: A Tribute to Radiohead (Failure to Communicate Records)
- Featured the song "Wolf At The Door".
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External links [edit]
- Official website
- Aurelio Voltaire at IMDb
- Aurelio Voltaire at AllMusic
- interview with Sepiachord.com
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelio_Voltaire
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