Gabi Delgado-López

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Gabi Delgado (2015)
Gabi Delgado (2007)
DAF: Gabi Delgado (left) and Robert Görl (right)

Gabriel "Gabi" Delgado-López (born April 18, 1958 in Córdoba , Spain ; † March 22, 2020 in Portugal ) was a German singer , composer , lyricist and music producer . He is considered a co-founder of the punk scene on the Rhine and Ruhr and, in addition to his work as co-editor of the punk fanzine The Ostrich, played in numerous punk formations such as Charley's Girls and Lunch Break .

Together with Robert Görl he founded the group German American Friendship (DAF) in 1978 , in which he was a singer, songwriter and front man. With DAF he became internationally known; the group is one of the pioneers of the Neue Deutsche Welle . He received the German Record Prize for the DAF album Alles ist Gut .

Life

Delgado spent his childhood in Córdoba, where he was mainly raised by his grandmother and two aunts. During this time he only saw his mother once a year. He only met the father, who was unable to come to Spain because of the Franco regime , in 1966 when the family settled in Germany. Here he lived u. a. in Remscheid , Wuppertal , Dortmund and Düsseldorf . His brother Eduardo was later also active as a musician (bassist).

In 1978 Gabi Delgado co-founded DAF in Wuppertal . In 1980 he moved to London, where he lived until 1984. DAF released three albums during this time. After this phase, DAF temporarily dissolved. Delgado moved to Zurich and released the solo album Mistress , then he worked on the album 1st step to heaven of the reunited DAF. In 1986 he moved to Berlin and became a DJ and techno house activist from the very beginning. Together with WestBam and Marc Gubler, he organized the first house party in Germany and, with Saba Komossa, founded the techno house labels Delkom Club Control, BMWW and Sunday Morning Berlin. On these and other labels such as Low Spirit and MFS he published numerous productions from the house and techno area.

In 1995 he founded the band DAF / DOS together with Wotan Wilke Möhring , whose album, which was released by Sony / Columbia, alone, for two, with telephone a . a. the titles I think I'll fuck you later and Back to Marzahn included. In 2003 Delgado teamed up again with Robert Görl for another DAF album, Fifteen New DAF Songs . In February 2014, album 1 was released on Goldencore / ZYX Records . The follow-up album 2 was released on SPV Oblivion in August 2015.

Gabi Delgado died in March 2020 at the age of 61 in a hospital in Portugal, according to Robert Görl, very surprisingly within hours of “a kind of heart attack or a circulatory collapse”. He left his wife Jane. The Germany radio wrote in his obituary: "Delgado López has shaped with lyrical experimentation and electronic sounds, the German pop sustainable."

Discography (albums)

solo:

  • Mistress (1983)
  • 1 (2014)
  • 2 (2015)

with DAF:

  • Product of German-American friendship (1979)
  • The Little And The Bad (1980)
  • All is well (1981)
  • Gold and Love (1981)
  • Forever (1982)
  • 1st Step To Heaven (1986)
  • Fifteen new DAF songs (2003)

with Delkom:

  • Future Ultra (1990)

with DAF / DOS:

  • Alone, as a couple, with a phone (1996)
  • The DAF / DOS State (1999)
  • The DAF / DOS Live State (1999)

Web links

Commons : Gabi Delgado-López  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gabi Delgado “Passage”. (Video, 19:31 minutes) In: youtube.com. August 19, 2015, accessed March 24, 2020 .
  2. ^ Dpa: Neue Deutsche Welle: DAF founder Gabi Delgado-Lopéz died . In: The time . March 24, 2020, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed March 27, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Nadine Lange: Gabi Delgado is dead: the DAF singer died at the age of 61. In: Tagesspiegel.de . March 24, 2020, accessed March 24, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Summer Bartle: Obituary for DAF singer: Zündfunk playback about Gabi Delgado-Lopez, Robert Görl and DAF. March 26, 2020, accessed on March 31, 2020 (from approx. 51:35 min).
  5. ↑ Christoph Englmann: Mourning for German music legend - colleague speaks about tragic circumstances and cause of death. In: Münchner Merkur from April 3, 2020 - available online
  6. ↑ Musician Gabi Delgado is dead - like a sweating machine. Retrieved on March 25, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Delgado-López, Gabi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Delgado-López, Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, lyricist and producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Cordoba , Spain
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 2020
Place of death Spain