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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 Robert Görl, of the German electronic band Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft.
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 1982. He then moved to 
His brother, Eduardo Delgado-López, is a bass player.
Delgado-López was
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Biography
Delgado-López grew up in Córdoba. In 1966, his family moved to Germany ("My father had to leave Spain under Franco"), where they lived in Remscheid,Wuppertal
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, Dortmund
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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 1982. He then moved to Zürich
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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
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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, 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
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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'' (1980) * '' Alles ist gut'' (1981) * '' Gold und Liebe'' (1981) * '' Für immer'' (1982) * '' 1st Step to Heaven'' (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'' (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
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Delgado-Lopez, Gabi German industrial musicians German-language singers of Spain Spanish rock singers Spanish emigrants to Germany German LGBTQ singers Spanish LGBTQ singers German LGBTQ songwriters Spanish LGBTQ songwriters Bisexual songwriters Bisexual male singers German bisexual men German bisexual musicians Spanish bisexual men Spanish bisexual musicians 1958 births 2020 deaths People from Córdoba, Spain Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft members 20th-century German male singers 21st-century German male singers 20th-century Spanish male singers 21st-century Spanish male singers 20th-century German LGBTQ people 21st-century German LGBTQ people 20th-century Spanish LGBTQ people 21st-century Spanish LGBTQ people