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Gabriel Delgado-López (18 April 1958 – 22 March 2020), commonly known as Gabi Delgado, was a Spanish-born German composer, lyricist and producer, best known as singer and co-founder, with
He formed D.A.F. with Görl in 1978. In 1980, he moved to London, where he lived until D.A.F. first split in 1984. He then moved to 
His brother, Eduardo Delgado-López, is a bass player.
Delgado-López was
Lyric Database
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Delgado-Lopez, Gabi German industrial musicians German male singers German-language singers Spanish rock singers Spanish emigrants to Germany German LGBT singers Spanish LGBT singers German LGBT songwriters Bisexual singers Bisexual songwriters Bisexual men 1958 births 2020 deaths People from Córdoba, Spain Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft members Spanish male musicians 20th-century LGBT people 21st-century LGBT people
Robert Görl
Robert Görl (born 15 June 1955 in Munich) is a German musician, best known for his work with Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (D.A.F.) and for his solo recordings, particularly ''Night Full Of Tension'' and "Darling Don't Leave Me" (together ...
, of the German electronic band Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft
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Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (; "German-American Friendship"), or D.A.F., is an influential German electropunk/Neue Deutsche Welle band from Düsseldorf, formed in 1978 featuring Gabriel "Gabi" Delgado-López (vocals), Robert Görl (drum ...
.
Biography
Delgado-López grew up in Córdoba. In 1966, his family moved to Germany ("My father had to leave Spain underFranco
Franco may refer to:
Name
* Franco (name)
* Francisco Franco (1892–1975), Spanish general and dictator of Spain from 1939 to 1975
* Franco Luambo (1938–1989), Congolese musician, the "Grand Maître"
Prefix
* Franco, a prefix used when ref ...
"), where they lived in Remscheid
Remscheid () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is, after Wuppertal and Solingen, the third-largest municipality in Bergisches Land, being located on the northern edge of the region, on the south ...
, Wuppertal
Wuppertal (; "''Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and to ...
, Dortmund
Dortmund (; Westphalian nds, Düörpm ; la, Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of Germany, with a population of 588,250 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the la ...
and Düsseldorf
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.
He formed D.A.F. with Görl in 1978. In 1980, he moved to London, where he lived until D.A.F. first split in 1984. He then moved to Zürich
Zürich () is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zürich. As of January 2020, the municipality has 43 ...
and released the solo album ''Mistress'', which did not sell well in Germany but was top 20 in Japan, then reuniting with Görl to record the 1986 D.A.F. album ''1st Step to Heaven''.
In 1986, he moved to Berlin to become a DJ and organise house
A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condi ...
parties. He organized (with WestBam and Marc Gubler) the first house party in Germany. With Saba Komossa, he founded the techno-house labels Delkom Club Control, BMWW and Sunday Morning Berlin.
In 1995, he founded, with Wotan Wilke Möhring
Wotan Wilke Möhring (born 23 May 1967) is a German actor.
Biography
Möhring was born in Augustdorf near Detmold and grew up in Herne. His father was an army officer and his mother worked as a teacher. He has a sister and two brothers. On ...
, the band DAF/DOS, who recorded the album ''Allein, zu zweit, mit Telefon'' (''Alone, As A Couple, With Telephone'') on Sony/Columbia, with the singles "Ich glaub' ich fick' dich später" ("I Think I'll Fuck You Later") and "Zurück nach Marzahn" ("Back to Marzahn"). In 2003, Delgado reunited again with Görl for another D.A.F. album, ''Fünfzehn neue D.A.F-Lieder'' (''Fifteen New D.A.F. Songs'').
His brother, Eduardo Delgado-López, is a bass player.
Delgado-López was bisexual
Bisexuality is a romantic or sexual attraction or behavior toward both males and females, or to more than one gender. It may also be defined to include romantic or sexual attraction to people regardless of their sex or gender identity, whi ...
and spoke at length about it publicly.
Delgado-López died of a heart attack on 22 March 2020. Sources may vary about his death place, some say he died in a hospital in Portugal, while Deutschlandfunk say he died in his birth place of Córdoba. He was 61.
Discography
Solo: *''Mistress'' (1983) *''Eins'' (2014) *''Zwei'' (2015) with DAF: * ''Die Kleinen und die Bösen
''Die Kleinen und die Bösen'' (''The Small and the Evil'') is the second album by Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, released on 13 June 1980. It was the first album ever released on Mute Records.
Side A and the first track of side B are stu ...
'' (1980)
* ''Alles ist gut
''Alles ist gut'' (''Everything Is Fine'') is the third album by German electropunk band Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. It was released in 1981 and was the band's first album on the Virgin Records label. It includes the hit single "Der Musso ...
'' (1981)
* ''Gold und Liebe
''Gold und Liebe'' (''Gold and Love'') is the fourth album by Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, released on Virgin Records in 1981. It was produced by Conny Plank.
The album was in the German charts for 21 weeks, peaking at No. 35, and the Au ...
'' (1981)
* '' Für immer'' (1982)
* ''1st Step to Heaven
''1st Step to Heaven'' is a 1986 album by Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, released on Dean Records via Ariola in Europe.
It is their only album in English rather than German. Singer Gabi Delgado-López later noted: "So we wanted to break o ...
'' (1986)
* '' Fünfzehn neue D.A.F.-Lieder'' (2003)
Note: Although Delgado-López had previously been a member of DAF, he temporarily left the band before they recorded ''Ein Produkt der Deutsch-Amerikanischen Freundschaft
''Ein Produkt der Deutsch-Amerikanischen Freundschaft'' (''A Product of German-American Friendship'') is the first album by the German electronic music group Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft. It was the second release, and first album, on Kur ...
'' (1979), hence this debut album is a series of instrumentals without his participation.
with Delkom:
* ''Futur Ultra'' (1990)
with DAF/DOS:
* ''Allein, zu zweit, mit Telefon'' (1996)
* ''Der DAF/DOS Staat'' (1999)
* ''Der DAF/DOS Live Staat'' (1999)
References
External links
Lyric Database
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Delgado-Lopez, Gabi German industrial musicians German male singers German-language singers Spanish rock singers Spanish emigrants to Germany German LGBT singers Spanish LGBT singers German LGBT songwriters Bisexual singers Bisexual songwriters Bisexual men 1958 births 2020 deaths People from Córdoba, Spain Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft members Spanish male musicians 20th-century LGBT people 21st-century LGBT people