Aurelio Voltaire

Aurelio Voltaire is exactly my kind of artist: impossible to file under one label. Born in Havana, he became a leading figure in dark cabaret, but he also writes, animates, and teaches. I am drawn to people who refuse to stay inside a single discipline, and Voltaire treats music, film, and storytelling as one continuous world of his own design. That stubborn coherence of vision is what I admire most. Culture needs eccentrics who commit fully to their own aesthetic, and he has done so for decades without diluting it.

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Name (English)

Aurelio Voltaire

Name (Japanese)

ヴォルテール

Reading

ゔぉるてーる

Born

January 25, 1967 (age 59)

Origin

Havana, Havana Province, Cuba

Occupation

musician / singer / screenwriter / animator / university teacher

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Goat

• Official sitehttps://www.voltaire.net
• Xhttps://x.com/AurelioVoltaire
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelio%20Voltaire
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q944759

Tags

• Havana Province
• musician
• singer
• screenwriter

Last updated

September 28, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.