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在眾多女性搖滾藝人中，最特立獨行的要屬Doro Pesch，這名日爾曼女子并沒有把對搖滾的熱忱轉化為Groupie那盲目的糜爛和追捧，而是選擇了在80年代男性占主導地位的金屬樂壇中闖出屬于自己的一片天地。 Doro是個混合體，Joan Jett的狂野，Patti Smith的睿智，Janis Joplin的叛逆塑造了Doro的靈魂?！癐t’s a man’s world? Who says?（這是男人的世界嗎？誰說的？）”—已經成為Doro的口頭禪。 80年代歐洲重金屬界中的女性則以Warlock的女主唱Doro Pesch為代表,Warlock于1982年組團。Doro這位一頭金發的德國姑娘擁有一副兼有粗曠與柔媚兩種特質的好嗓子，憑借她過人的演唱天賦，WARLOCK在1984年發行的首張專輯Burning The Witches就讓樂隊站到了當時主流金屬的前沿。 此后的三年Warlock以每年一張的速度發行了三張專輯，每一張都受到了樂迷的好評。此后，Doro乾脆把Warlock改組成了自己的個人樂隊，并在1989和1990年以個人身份發行了兩張專輯。 雖然在進入90年代后由于Grunge的沖擊以及主流金屬樂的沒落，Doro有七、八年沒有發行新的作品，但隨著上個世紀末重金屬回潮的到來，她又重新出現在金屬迷們面前?；蛟S是由于此前積累了不少作品的緣故，Doro復出之后發行專輯的速度令人驚嘆——從1998年到2002年的五年間，她居然發行了9張專輯！ 看來，雖然無情的時光奪去了Doro的青春與美貌，但沒有讓她失去對重金屬的熱愛和創作的激情，我們仍然有理由相信Doro會繼續帶給我們出色的重金屬音樂。 Doro的音樂不是那種絢麗的金屬樂，沒有夸張的服飾，沒有尖利的嗓音，沒有長篇的SOLO，有的只是純粹的硬搖滾，甚至在現代人眼里有些土里土氣，但正是這種簡單卻充滿力量的Hard Rock讓人動容。雖然時間的痕跡無情的爬上了Doro美麗的面頰，但創作的欲望和對搖滾的信仰卻有增無減。 DORO Pesch is a living legend! And now the entire world knows it, after the “Queen of Rock & Metal” has received her first ever “Legends-Award” at England’s renowned “Golden Gods Awards” on July 17th 2013 at O2 Arena, London. A true highlight of a career, already going on for three decades. DORO can look back at a really unique journey in the music business. DORO, in numbers this means: Gold and platinum awards for about 10 million sold records, over 2.800 live shows on four continents and in 60 different countries of this world, 16 studio records, four DVD’s. Countless cover stories on all important Music Magazines and millions of overwhelmed fans around the globe. At the age of 16 DORO started playing in her first bands, but the story of her success began with her band WARLOCK in 1982 and the first album “Burning The Witches”, 1983: the first steps of a world career, that in 1986 got her to perform at the legendary “Monsters of Rock” Festival at British Castle Donnington, as the first ever female musician – and in front of 120.000 frenetic fans. The same year DORO and WARLOCK took the chance to support JUDAS PRIEST on a world tour. At this point DORO decided to finally quit her job as a graphic designer and to entirely enter the music business, with all her heart, body and soul. On giant world tours in the USA, South America, China, Japan, Australia and Europe DORO conquered a huge fan base. In Spain and Russia she is worshiped like a goddess. Additionally she has done mega-tours with icons such as Ronnie James Dio, the SCORPIONS or MOT?RHEAD. DORO and WARLOCK recorded a total of four studio records and had their international breakthrough in 1987 with “Triumph & Agony”. Shortly before, DORO had moved from Düsseldorf to New York, where she is still living today. “Triumph & Agony” has sold over three million copies and reached worldwide gold and platinum status. This masterpiece includes two mega-hits written by DORO herself: ‘All We Are’ and ‘Für Immer’. Up to this very day, those two songs are highlight of every single show. In 1989 the followup “Force Majeur” continued the mega-success of “Triumpf & Agony” and entered the German Media Control Charts on #5, reaching gold status within just 14 days. 1990 the self-titled record DORO followed, which has been produced in L.A. by no one less than KISS-mastermind Gene Simmons, who is one of her musical idols and added numerous songs to the album. “True at Heart” was produced in 1991 by famous Barry Beckett (Producer for e.g. THE ROLLING STONES). During the cause of the 90s, more outstanding records like “Angels Never Die” and “Machine to Machine” and the incomparable Love “Me In Black” followed. In 1994 DORO received a well-deserved recognition, as she has been awarded a “Female Artist of the Year” at the most important German Music Award “Echo”. She has been nominated for the “Echo” eight times by now. In the Czech Republic she won the title of “Sexiest Woman Alive” at Spark-Magazine. “Calling The Wild” in the year 2000 was another milestone, including ‘Love Me Forever’ and ‘Alone Again’: The first ever duets of DORO. Recorded with the awesome Lemmy Kilmister of MOT?RHEAD, she shares a longtime friendship with. Another close friend of DORO is 13-time World Boxing Champion Regina Halmich. A total of four entry hymns was created: ‘All We Are’, ‘Fight’, ‘She’s Like Thunder’ und ‘The Queen’. In 2004 out of her love for animals and several performances at the beneficial concert ?Rock für Tiere“ (?Rock for Animals“), where she played with the Metal Classic Night Orchester, the idea was born to produce the sucessful “Classic Diamonds” Album and DVD , which feature DOROs biggest hits in a classical style. In August of 2004 fans at Wacken Open Air were witnesses to DORO performing along with a 60-piece orchestra. In 2006 DORO proves her talent as an actress, as she takes on the female lead of Meha in Luke Gassers movie Anuk – Der Weg eines Kriegers (Anuk – The Way of a Warrior). At the same time DORO composed her first Movie Soundtrack – “Warrior Soul”. The albums’ titel track was also used as the movies’ theme. 2012/13 DORO returns to the big screen, again in the role of Meha for the sequel, which will celebrate its debut in 2014. Talking about celebratin – on December 13th 2003 DORO had her first big celebration. For her 20-years anniversary at Philipshalle Düsseldorf, star guests like Biff Byford, Lemmy and Udo Dirkschneider entered the stage to congratulate her. The same day five years later, on December 13th 2008 at ISS Dome Düsseldorf, guests like the SCORPIONS, Tarja Turunen and many more were on stage together with DORO. The entire show is available on the DVD “DORO – 25 years in Rock”. At the same time the 2008 single release ‘Celebrate’ of the “Fear No Evil”-album was becoming a hit in Spain, where ‘Celebrate’ was in the top ten for seven weeks. Spain is inhabited by one of DOROs strongest fan bases. Readers of Spanish Metal magazine “Heavy Rock” voted DORO as best female vocalist 17 times (!) to this date.