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Düsseldorf, Germany
Doro Pesch is a German heavy metal singer-songwriter, formerly front-woman of the heavy metal band Warlock. Dubbed the "Queen of Heavy Metal", Doro's contributions to music and culture along with her publicized personal life made her a global figure in metal culture for over three decades. The name Doro has also been associated with the touring band accompanying the singer, whose members have…
Known for
- Wacken - Hearts Full of Metal — Self2026
- Kaamos — Self2026
- Scorpions Live at Wacken Open Air 2024 — Vocals2025
- Dirkschneider: 40th Anniversary of Balls to the Wall Show - W:O:A 2025 — Vocals2025
- Doro - Live at Wacken Open Air 2023 — Lead Vocals2023
- HerzensDinge — Self2022
- Doro: Warlock - Triumph and agony live2021
- Doro: The Story Behind Triumph And Agony2021
- Doro - The Queen of Metal — Self2021
- Legendär! — Self2021
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Key facts
- Also known as
- Metal Queen
- Born
- Dorothee Pesch , ( 1964-06-03 ) 3 June 1964 (age 62) , Düsseldorf , West Germany
- Genres
- Heavy metal
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter
- Works
- Discography
- Years active
- 1980–present
- Labels
- Vertigo PolyGram WEA SPV/Steamhammer AFM Nuclear Blast
- Formerly of
- Snakebite Warlock
- Website
- doromusic .de
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Düsseldorf
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- German
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Nuclear Blast
- Discography
- Doro Pesch discography
- Official website
- www.doromusic.de
- Image
- Doro Pesch – Wacken Open Air 2014 04.jpg
- Work location
- New York City
- Voice type
- mezzo-soprano
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- date of birth
- 1964-06-03
- Commons category
- Doro
- Commons gallery
- Doro
- member of
- Warlock
- pseudonym
- Doro
- birth name
- Dorothee Pesch
- start of work period
- 1980-00-00
- lifestyle
- veganism
- social media followers
- 57400
- official shop URL
- doromerch.com
- copyright representative
- GEMA
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Encyclopedic overview
Dorothee Pesch (born 3 June 1964), known professionally as Doro Pesch or simply Doro, is a German heavy metal singer and the former frontwoman of heavy metal band Warlock. Doro's contributions to music and culture made her a global figure in metal culture for over four decades. The name Doro has also been associated with the touring band accompanying the singer, whose members have continuously changed in more than 20 years of uninterrupted activity, the most stable presences being those of bassist Nick Douglas and drummer Johnny Dee.
Doro started her career in garage bands in native Düsseldorf underground scene and achieved media visibility and some commercial success with Warlock in the 1980s. Warlock were starting to have an opening in the US market, when they went through many line-up changes and Pesch was left the only original member of the band. She started a solo career under the name Doro, in order to avoid legal battles between her record label PolyGram and her former manager. She released two albums in the US with producers Joey Balin and Gene Simmons, but they were not the breakthrough that she had hoped.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Doro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.