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From Wiki:
[quote]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’s music has strong roots and connections to European folk as well as other influences such as the goth scene. However, many listeners find his music hard to classify. Although it has a sound reminiscent of European folk music, many people claim it to be darkwave; perhaps as this is a label often given to many other artists from Projekt Records, and a word often used to mean many things by the label themselves. His music has also been linked to cabaret, with Lexicon Magazine using the term 'goth cabaret', possibly referring to dark cabaret, a term often used to describe some bands Voltaire cites as his influences. New Wave has also been used to describe Voltaire's music by some reviewers. Voltaire describes his own music as- 'Music for a parallel universe where electricity was never invented and Morrissey is the queen of England.' He claims that bands and artists who influenced his music are Rasputina, Morrissey, Tom Waits, Cab Calloway, and Danny Elfman.
Voltaire is also an experienced animation and comic artist, and is a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York.[/quote]
Here's some songs:
When You're Evil
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZvZxxE9OX0[/media]
Happy Birthday, My Olde Friend
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxYXcvGBibc[/media]
And his most well-known song from the Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: BRAINS!
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i7tqWMbUFU[/media]
Voltaire is also an accomplished comic artist and writer. Creating:
What is Goth? - Music, Makeup, Attitude, Apparel, Dance, and General Skullduggery
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And the Oh My Goth graphic novels
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Hopefully, I filled out the requirements so this thread don't get locked.
Came in here looking for Philosophy - but that violin intro was kind of cool on When You're Evil.
Voltaire's cool.
To The Bottom Of The Sea is pretty good.
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