Gabriel Delgado-Lopez

April 18, 1958

Córdoba, Córdoba Province, Spain

In 1966, his family moved to Germany ("My father had to leave Spain under Franco"), where they lived in Remscheid, Wuppertal, Dortmund and Düsseldorf. He formed Doctorate.A.F. with Görl in 1978. In 1980, he moved to London, where he lived until Doctorate.A.F. first split in 1984. He then moved to Zürich 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 Doctorate.A.F. album 1st Step to Heaven. In 1986 he moved to Berlin to become a DJ and organise house parties. He organized (with WestBam and Marc Gubler) the first house party in Germany. With Saba Komssa, 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 Doctorate.A.F. album, Fünfzehn neue Doctorate.A.F-Lieder (Fifteen New DAF Songs). He has a brother, Eduardo Delgado-Lopez, who is a bass player. Delgado-López is bisexual and has spoken at length about it publicly.

Gabriel Delgado-Lopez

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Background

Delgado-López grew up in Córdoba.

Career

In 1966, his family moved to Germany ("My father had to leave Spain under Franco"), where they lived in Remscheid, Wuppertal, Dortmund and Düsseldorf. He formed Doctorate.A.F. with Görl in 1978. In 1980, he moved to London, where he lived until Doctorate.A.F. first split in 1984.

He then moved to Zürich 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 Doctorate.A.F. album 1st Step to Heaven.

In 1986 he moved to Berlin to become a DJ and organise house parties. He organized (with WestBam and Marc Gubler) the first house party in Germany.

With Saba Komssa, 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 Doctorate.A.F. album, Fünfzehn neue Doctorate.A.F-Lieder (Fifteen New DAF Songs).

He has a brother, Eduardo Delgado-Lopez, who is a bass player. Delgado-López is bisexual and has spoken at length about it publicly.

Achievements

He is best known as singer and co-founder, with Robert Görl, of the electronic band Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft.

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