Dero Goi is a German musician, poet, and writer, best known as the co- founder of band Oomph!
Background
He grew up in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony with his current bandmate Crap. They lived in the same tenement housing department and both started playing music in grade school. They built "instruments" with Persilpacks. Dero and Crap met Flux at an Industrial Festival. They found out that they liked the same kind of music and wanted to start a band, which would combine the Rock and the Electro scene. Thus OOMPH! was born.
Dero was introduced to music through his father, who was a guitarist and singer. Dero was "forced" to sing Elvis Presley songs with his father.
Career
On their first tour they were just those three, and played the music playback, except Dero, who sang. After a while they met Leonard Christian who is still OOMPH!'s live drummer, and Tobi, their first live bassist, who was exchanged for Hagen Godicke in 2004.
When asked how Oomph! came up with their name, Dero said that the name was chosen because of its peculiarity.
"Because it was so strange to see that the name like that is existing. You know, with the two "o"s and the exclamation mark at the end. It was strange, you know, the visual aspect and pronunciation. And, you know, it’s always good to have a name where somebody is like "What was that?" You know, if your band name is like, I dunno, 'Toilet 2, 3, 4' it's, it's, I dunno... Your name has to be special. And this is a special name, definitely."