Something that puzzled me for most of my life:
I have loved the music of, and read about certain artists for a very long time, but I’ve never heard their names pronounced.
So, is David Freiberg (Quicksilver etc) Free-burg or Fry-berg? Is John Cippolina (Quicksilver again) Sippolina or Kippolina, or may be even Chippolina?
Is Carlos San-tan-a or Santarna? Is his band member Hosay Chepito Ar ree ass?
Is it El-vis…no, only joking…
The group’s name is pronounced San-Tan-a, so I’d assume that’s what Carlos uses (and I believe I’ve heard him pronounced that way.
I have heard QMS members pronounced as David Free-Berg and John Sippolina, but that may not be definitive, much like Davie Bowie seems to be prounounced both Boh-wee and Bough-we.
Why would a guy from Mexico add a gratuitous [r] to the pronunciation of his name? If this is just a British way of indicating different kinds of [a] sounds, his name is pronounced with the ‘flat’ [a] (IPA æ) in English, and with the standard Spanish [a] in Spanish. As he is bilingual, he uses both.
From one who knows them both (RIP John) It’s David FRY-BERG and John CHIP-O-LINA FYI
Okay, I encountered a guy named Sciocchetti. How do you think he pronounces THAT?
ShoKETTy
But how do you pronounce Wojciehowicz?
Differently, depending on whether the person I’m speaking to expects me to speak English or Polish.
In short, a person’s name is what he says it is.
“Valles” would be pronounced quite differently in several different Latin American countries where it occurs regularly as a surname… Maybe /va-jes/, maybe /bye-ayz/.
The common English surname Turner is, in non-English countries, pronounced /toor-nair/, with trilled Rs.
Years ago I met a Danish woman who married a Swazi, and they had been living together for five years in Southern Africa. She had not yet learned to pronounce her own name, which had several clicks in it.
Wo-ja-hoe-witz
Heres one for you: Wojtysiak–my grandfathers surname
No Barney Miller fans here, then?
Not a surprise at all. That is the correct Italian pronunciation (rendered in an American approximation).
The surprising one is Brett Favre.
I used to know Max Gail Sr.
Voy-ti-shak.
I have been a massive fan of Quicksilver and the West Coast cabal (PERRO and all that) that David was with. I have just wiki-ed him and - would you believe it - the first thing it says is how to pronounce his name! I’m sure that wasn’t there nine years ago. Wiki also says ‘Once described as “the nicest guy in the San Francisco music scene,” Freiberg holds the singular distinction of having been associated with more of the original San Francisco bands than any other individual.’
If you don’t mind me asking: how do you know him (and John)?
It’s actually pronounced “Throatwarbler Maaaangrove.”
<ducks>
The way it’s spelled.
Incorrectly.
He’s so dumb, he can’t spell “Farv.” 
For your next lesson you will pronounce Jorma Kaukonen
Yorma Koe-koe-nen?
The way I’ve heard it is more like Yorma COW-ka-nen