Dan Auerbach

Daniel Quine "Dan" Auerbach (born May 14, 1979) is an American musician and record producer best known as the guitarist and vocalist for The Black Keys. In spring 2015, Auerbach announced a new side-project, The Arcs.

Auerbach was born in Ohio, and is the son of Mary Little (née Quine; b. about 1948), a teacher of French, and Charles Auerbach (b. about 1950), an antique dealer. His father is of Polish Jewish descent and his mother is of part Manx descent. His maternal cousin, twice removed, was philosopher and logician Willard Van Orman Quine, and his second cousin once removed was the late guitarist Robert Quine.

Auerbach was married to Stephanie Gonis, with whom he has a daughter, Sadie Little Auerbach, born in 2008. In February 2013, it was reported that the couple were in the midst of divorce proceedings.

His ethnic background is:

• Ashkenazi Jewish (father)
• English, Irish, French, 1/8th Manx, 1/8th German, Welsh, Scottish, and Scots-Irish (mother)

Sources

• Wikipedia: Dan Auerbach
• Ethnicelebs: Dan Auerbach