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Today's music stars are many.We love and enjoy of duzine artists , bands and singers , but must not forget one legend who is come back into the lights to give us from its passion again -Doro , The Queen of Heavy Metal .
Dorothee Pesch (born 3 June 1964, Düsseldorf, Germany), popularly known as Doro Pesch or Doro, is a German hard rock vocalist and songwriter, front-woman of the heavy metal band Warlock in the past. The name Doro has also been associated with the touring band accompanying the singer at her tours. The members have continuously changed in more than twenty years of uninterrupted activity. The most stable presences guaranteed by bassist Nick Douglas and drummer Johnny Dee.
Dorothee Pesch -Doro
Doro started her career in garage bands in native Düsseldorf underground scene. She achieved media visibility and commercial success with Warlock in the 1980s.
Doro and Warlock
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.This was necessary in order to avoid legal battles between her record label PolyGram and her former manager.
Doro Pesch
She released two albums in the US with producers Joey Balin and Gene Simmons. The albums were not the breakthrough that she hoped.
During the rise of waveof grunge and alternative rock in the 1990s, her record label relegated her productions only to the European region. In Europe she continued to tour extensively. She remained a successful charting artist in Germany.She despite living and producing her albums in the US.
Doro
When classic heavy metal found again the love of the public, Doro returned to tour all over the world and her popularity start to grew again. As a veteran singer she is inspiring many new female metal artists. Doro is also known for her duets performed both live and in studio with other singers and musicians of the metal scene. She has strong relationswith them in her long career.
To this date, she released sixteen studio albums, the latest being " Raise Your Fist" in 2012. Doro continues her recording career. She is a much requested touring artist all over the world. When not on tour,Doro resides in New York City.
Albums with " Warlock" :
Burning the Witches (1984)
Hellbound (1985)
True as Steel (1986)
Triumph and Agony (1987)
Solo albums :
Force Majeure (1989)
Doro (1990)
True at Heart (1991)
Angels Never Die (1993)
Machine II Machine (1995)
Love Me in Black (1998)
Calling the Wild (2000)
Fight (2002)
Classic Diamonds (2004)
Warrior Soul (2006)
Fear No Evil (2009)
Raise Your Fist (2012)
Doro's touring band :
Doro Pesch (1988–present) – vocals
Nick Douglas (1990–present) – bass, keyboards, backing vocals
Johnny Dee (1993–1995, 1998–present) – drums, percussion, backing vocals
Bas Maas (2008–present) – guitars, backing vocals
Luca Princiotta (2009–present) – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
Now more detailed information:
Dorothee Pesch was born in Düsseldorf, Germany on 3 June 1964, the only child of Walter, a truck driver and Barbara Pesch. Doro's first meet of rock music is the song "Lucille" by Little Richard, when she is only three years old. She learned to play piano and started singing at the age of ten years. Then she was exposed to the glam rock of bands like T. Rex, Sweet and Slade. When she was sixteen and after a death-threatening form of tuberculosis, she decided to gave more of her energy to singing.But she also continuing her study of graphic design. In 1980, she was accepted in her first band called Snakebite.This band was playing rock music in a Düsseldorf basement used as practice space by many other underground groups. The first recording with Doro on vocals was a cheap 7-track demo released by Snakebite for promotion. When Snakebite disbanded in 1981, Doro went on to sing for the garage bands Beast and Attack, before forming Warlock with Peter Szigeti, Rudy Graf, Thomas Studier and Michael Eurich in 1982.Then comes the years with Warlock (1982-1988).
Doro and Warlock
Warlock signed their first recording contract with Mausoleum Records and released their debut album Burning the Witches in 1984. Doro attracted immediately the attention of fans and press, becoming the spoke-person and the main mean of promotion for the band. The mix of traditional heavy metal and power ballads, together with her voice and stage presence led Warlock to success. In the 80s' metal scene dominated by male-fronted metal bands. Warlock signed a new contract with the major label Phonogram and released the albums Hellbound in 1985 and True as Steel in 1986.They sharing the stage of European rock festivals with some of the best hard rock and heavy metal bands of the period. On 16 August 1986, Doro was the first woman to front a metal band at the Monsters of Rock festival in Castle Donington, England, the most famous European rock meeting of the 80s. Warlock's long tours in Europe.They were supporting W.A.S.P. and Judas Priest.This pushed Doro to give up her day job as a graphic designer to devote her life to music. In this period she also active received vocal coaching.
After the completion of the tour in support of True as Steel, Doro took charge of business and went to live in New York City, USA. In New York Warlock recorded their fourth and last studio album Triumph and Agony. The album was their most successful, going Gold in Germany and reaching No. 80 in the Billboard 200 US album chart. It includes the songs "All We Are" and "Für immer" (Forever), Warlock's best known tracks. They had active MTV's reclam too .Warlock opened for Dio in Europe and embarked on their only US tour, supporting Megadeth. At the end of the US tour, Doro remained the sole German in the band after all the other original members had quit, replaced by American musicians. In 1989, while writing material for a new album, she lost a legal cause with the band's former manager for the rights to the name and merchandise of Warlock.Her record label forced her to accept the publication of new albums under the name Doro, in order to continue her career. Doro persevered in the legal battle for the Warlock name and eventually regained the rights in 2011.
The 90's was dynamic for Doro.What should have been the fifth Warlock release became Force Majeure -the first Doro album, published in February 1989. It was recorded in the US by Joey Balin and continuing the band's radio-friendly pop metal in contrast with the European power metal of Warlock’s earlier works. The album sold quite well in Europe, but in the US lurking at the bottom of the Billboard 200 chart.
Following the tour to promote Force Majeure, the final Warlock's misucuan left the band and Doro concentrated on her solo career. She decided to keep Swiss manager Alex Grob, but renounced to be part of a band with whom to share songwriting and career decisions. She contacted KISS bassist and childhood idol Gene Simmons. Simmons was produced the album Doro, with the help of Black 'n Blue guitarist Tommy Thayer and Pat Regan. Doro was recorded in California with use of writers and musicians from the KISS entourage. Doro declared that Simmons "was the best producer we ever had!"
A band formed by the American musicians Thomas Jude on guitars, Paul Morris on keyboards, Nick Douglas on bass and Tom Coombs on drums was assembled for the supporting tour.It sold well in Europe. a PolyGram decided to interrupt the publication of Doro's albums in America.The commercial appeal of glam metal and classic rock acts was rapidly declining in favor of grunge and alternative rock. Doro concluded 1990 playing some dates in Germany by opening for Scorpions.
The German singer experimented a new direction for her music in 1991. She recorded the album True at Heart in country music haven Nashville, Tennessee. Dann Huff of the melodic hard rock band Giant contributed his lead guitar work to the album. New band members Michael Tyrrell on guitar, Jeff Bruno on guitar and keyboards, and Tony Mac on drums.They recruited for the following European tour.
Despite living in the US and losing visibility in the English-spoken media, Doro remained very popular in Germany. Her albums always charted here. In 1991 she sang on a charity song by the "German Rock Project" called "Let Love Conquer the World".
Doro Pesch
Returning in the US after the European tour, Doro was put in contact with Jack Ponti, a songwriter and producer from New Jersey.He has must to work on her next two albums. Ponti was the producer of some minor glam metal acts and the A&R manager of Skid Row and Nelson. The album Angels Never Die( 1993), was produced and largely written and performed by Ponti himself and Vic Pepe .Itis a mix of melodic hard rock songs and power ballads.It was commercial pop metal album. The album had limited success in Europe. The video for the song "Bad Blood" was voted Best Anti-Racism Video during the first MTV Europe Music Awards ceremony in 1994. The tour of Angels Never Die introduced in the line-up of Doro's band the American musicians Joe Taylor (ex-Lita Ford Band) on lead guitar, Jimmy DiLella (ex-Waysted, Mariah and Tyketto) on guitar and keyboards, and Chris Branco on drums. Branco was soon replaced by Johnny Dee (ex-Waysted and Britny Fox) and this line-up recorded in 1993 the live album Doro Live.This album was released also in VHS. Doro headlined her first Wacken Open Air festival on 20 August 1993.
Machine II Machine, the second album produced by Jack Ponti, was created through the efforts of musicians with different musical backgrounds. The album explores new grounds for Doro.Sound is closer to mainstream rock music. It was her last studio album published by PolyGram/Vertigo. The ten-year contract with the label that Warlock had signed in 1985, PolyGram did not renovate. Doro entered in negotiations with other record labels. In a pause of her touring schedule in October 1995, Doro made acting debut as a guest star on the German television soap opera Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love).
Doro Pesch was cast as the warrior Meha in the prehistoric action movie Anuk-Der Weg des Kriegers (Anuk-The Way of the Warrior) shoted at Swizerland .The film was released in 2006 and features also Marc Storace, lead singer of the Swiss hard rock band Krokus. During the period of shooting, she wrote and recorded new songs in Switzerland with local session musicians. The producter Gasser used three of those songs for the soundtrack of the movie.More songs were recorded in Germany in the time between tours with her band and usual collaborators.The album Warrior Soul released in 2006 . The screenplay for a second movie with the same cast was written in the following years . Gasser finally found the funding to start production in 2012.
In the following tour Doro was present at many festivals around the world. The band headlined the very first female-fronted metal US festival Flight of the Valkyries on 27 June 2007 in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Both Taylor and Palotai were in the band on 13 December 2008 at the more than three-hour special concert that Doro held at ISS Dome in Düsseldorf to celebrate her 25th anniversary of activity in front of 9,000 spectators. The show was introduced by performances of the bands Holy Moses, Leaves' Eyes and Arch Enemy. The main part began with songs from Doro's career, including duets with Bobby Ellsworth (Overkill), Jean Beauvoir, Chris Boltendahl (Grave Digger), Axel Rudi Pell, Klaus Meine and Rudolf Schenker (Scorpions), Tarja Turunen (ex-Nightwish), Warrel Dane (Nevermore), Liv Kristine, Floor Jansen, Ji-In Cho, Girlschool and other female singers who had sang in the single "Celebrate". The show included another reunion of the 1986 formation of Warlock and culminated with all the guests, other musicians (like Alexander Krull, Tom Angelripper, members of Saltatio Mortis) and friends of the German singer on stage to sing "All We Are". The event was released in 2010 in the double DVD 25 Years in Rock... and Still Going Strong by Nuclear Blast, Doro's new record label.
A few days after the show Doro was in Tilburg, the Netherlands, to participate at the first edition of Christmas Metal Symphony. She sang accompanied by a band of Dutch metal musicians and by a symphonic orchestra.
Doro's album Fear No Evil was released in January 2009 .It was her last collaboration with guitarist Joe Taylor( lefted to join Cycle Of Pain ). His place was taken by the Dutch guitarist Bas Maas (ex-After Forever). The line-up of Pesch, Maas, Princiotta, Douglas and Dee went on a world tour for most of 2009 and 2010, reaching North and South America, Russia, China and, for the first time, Japan Doro supported Saxon in their 2009 UK tour and Motörhead in Germany in 2010.During this , guitarist Princiotta was sometimes substituted by Robert Katrikh or by Harrison Young. Doro's band appeared at festivals all over the world, performed on Wacken Open Air and Metal Female Voices Fest 7 (where she dueted again with Tarja Turunen) in 2009, Hellfest in France Bang Your Head!!! in Germany and Bloodstock Open Air in Great Britain in 2010.
Doro
Doro Pesch has always been very reserved and careful in protecting her privacy off-stage. She consciously renounced a family in order to dedicate all of her time to her music and her fans.The lyrics of the song "You Are My Family", exemplify this decision.After the death of her father in 2000,Doro's mother Barbara manages her fan club.
She has homes in Düsseldorf, Germany and in Long Island, New York, where she usually resided when not on tour, until her house was destroyed by hurricane Irene in August 2011. She received her green card to live and work in the USA in 1991. Doro owns, with former Die Krupps members Chris Lietz and Jürgen Engler, Atom H recording studios in Düsseldorf.
Doro's stage clothes are handmade.The models she designs using synthetic materials which imitate leather after the singer's adhesion to PETA. She also supports the no-profit organization Terre des Femmes . Doro has been a trained Thai boxer. She started practicing in 1995. She still enjoys graphic arts. She painting in her limited free time.
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Today's music stars are many.We love and enjoy of duzine artists , bands and singers , but must not forget one legend who is come back into the lights to give us from its passion again -Doro , The Queen of Heavy Metal .
Dorothee Pesch (born 3 June 1964, Düsseldorf, Germany), popularly known as Doro Pesch or Doro, is a German hard rock vocalist and songwriter, front-woman of the heavy metal band Warlock in the past. The name Doro has also been associated with the touring band accompanying the singer at her tours. The members have continuously changed in more than twenty years of uninterrupted activity. The most stable presences guaranteed by bassist Nick Douglas and drummer Johnny Dee.
Dorothee Pesch -Doro
Doro started her career in garage bands in native Düsseldorf underground scene. She achieved media visibility and commercial success with Warlock in the 1980s.
Doro and Warlock
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.This was necessary in order to avoid legal battles between her record label PolyGram and her former manager.
Doro Pesch
She released two albums in the US with producers Joey Balin and Gene Simmons. The albums were not the breakthrough that she hoped.
During the rise of waveof grunge and alternative rock in the 1990s, her record label relegated her productions only to the European region. In Europe she continued to tour extensively. She remained a successful charting artist in Germany.She despite living and producing her albums in the US.
When classic heavy metal found again the love of the public, Doro returned to tour all over the world and her popularity start to grew again. As a veteran singer she is inspiring many new female metal artists. Doro is also known for her duets performed both live and in studio with other singers and musicians of the metal scene. She has strong relationswith them in her long career.
To this date, she released sixteen studio albums, the latest being " Raise Your Fist" in 2012. Doro continues her recording career. She is a much requested touring artist all over the world. When not on tour,Doro resides in New York City.
Albums with " Warlock" :
Burning the Witches (1984)
Hellbound (1985)
True as Steel (1986)
Triumph and Agony (1987)
Solo albums :
Force Majeure (1989)
Doro (1990)
True at Heart (1991)
Angels Never Die (1993)
Machine II Machine (1995)
Love Me in Black (1998)
Calling the Wild (2000)
Fight (2002)
Classic Diamonds (2004)
Warrior Soul (2006)
Fear No Evil (2009)
Raise Your Fist (2012)
Doro on stage
Doro Pesch (1988–present) – vocals
Nick Douglas (1990–present) – bass, keyboards, backing vocals
Johnny Dee (1993–1995, 1998–present) – drums, percussion, backing vocals
Bas Maas (2008–present) – guitars, backing vocals
Luca Princiotta (2009–present) – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
Now more detailed information:
Dorothee Pesch was born in Düsseldorf, Germany on 3 June 1964, the only child of Walter, a truck driver and Barbara Pesch. Doro's first meet of rock music is the song "Lucille" by Little Richard, when she is only three years old. She learned to play piano and started singing at the age of ten years. Then she was exposed to the glam rock of bands like T. Rex, Sweet and Slade. When she was sixteen and after a death-threatening form of tuberculosis, she decided to gave more of her energy to singing.But she also continuing her study of graphic design. In 1980, she was accepted in her first band called Snakebite.This band was playing rock music in a Düsseldorf basement used as practice space by many other underground groups. The first recording with Doro on vocals was a cheap 7-track demo released by Snakebite for promotion. When Snakebite disbanded in 1981, Doro went on to sing for the garage bands Beast and Attack, before forming Warlock with Peter Szigeti, Rudy Graf, Thomas Studier and Michael Eurich in 1982.Then comes the years with Warlock (1982-1988).
Doro and Warlock
Warlock signed their first recording contract with Mausoleum Records and released their debut album Burning the Witches in 1984. Doro attracted immediately the attention of fans and press, becoming the spoke-person and the main mean of promotion for the band. The mix of traditional heavy metal and power ballads, together with her voice and stage presence led Warlock to success. In the 80s' metal scene dominated by male-fronted metal bands. Warlock signed a new contract with the major label Phonogram and released the albums Hellbound in 1985 and True as Steel in 1986.They sharing the stage of European rock festivals with some of the best hard rock and heavy metal bands of the period. On 16 August 1986, Doro was the first woman to front a metal band at the Monsters of Rock festival in Castle Donington, England, the most famous European rock meeting of the 80s. Warlock's long tours in Europe.They were supporting W.A.S.P. and Judas Priest.This pushed Doro to give up her day job as a graphic designer to devote her life to music. In this period she also active received vocal coaching.
After the completion of the tour in support of True as Steel, Doro took charge of business and went to live in New York City, USA. In New York Warlock recorded their fourth and last studio album Triumph and Agony. The album was their most successful, going Gold in Germany and reaching No. 80 in the Billboard 200 US album chart. It includes the songs "All We Are" and "Für immer" (Forever), Warlock's best known tracks. They had active MTV's reclam too .Warlock opened for Dio in Europe and embarked on their only US tour, supporting Megadeth. At the end of the US tour, Doro remained the sole German in the band after all the other original members had quit, replaced by American musicians. In 1989, while writing material for a new album, she lost a legal cause with the band's former manager for the rights to the name and merchandise of Warlock.Her record label forced her to accept the publication of new albums under the name Doro, in order to continue her career. Doro persevered in the legal battle for the Warlock name and eventually regained the rights in 2011.
The 90's was dynamic for Doro.What should have been the fifth Warlock release became Force Majeure -the first Doro album, published in February 1989. It was recorded in the US by Joey Balin and continuing the band's radio-friendly pop metal in contrast with the European power metal of Warlock’s earlier works. The album sold quite well in Europe, but in the US lurking at the bottom of the Billboard 200 chart.
Following the tour to promote Force Majeure, the final Warlock's misucuan left the band and Doro concentrated on her solo career. She decided to keep Swiss manager Alex Grob, but renounced to be part of a band with whom to share songwriting and career decisions. She contacted KISS bassist and childhood idol Gene Simmons. Simmons was produced the album Doro, with the help of Black 'n Blue guitarist Tommy Thayer and Pat Regan. Doro was recorded in California with use of writers and musicians from the KISS entourage. Doro declared that Simmons "was the best producer we ever had!"
A band formed by the American musicians Thomas Jude on guitars, Paul Morris on keyboards, Nick Douglas on bass and Tom Coombs on drums was assembled for the supporting tour.It sold well in Europe. a PolyGram decided to interrupt the publication of Doro's albums in America.The commercial appeal of glam metal and classic rock acts was rapidly declining in favor of grunge and alternative rock. Doro concluded 1990 playing some dates in Germany by opening for Scorpions.
The German singer experimented a new direction for her music in 1991. She recorded the album True at Heart in country music haven Nashville, Tennessee. Dann Huff of the melodic hard rock band Giant contributed his lead guitar work to the album. New band members Michael Tyrrell on guitar, Jeff Bruno on guitar and keyboards, and Tony Mac on drums.They recruited for the following European tour.
Despite living in the US and losing visibility in the English-spoken media, Doro remained very popular in Germany. Her albums always charted here. In 1991 she sang on a charity song by the "German Rock Project" called "Let Love Conquer the World".
Returning in the US after the European tour, Doro was put in contact with Jack Ponti, a songwriter and producer from New Jersey.He has must to work on her next two albums. Ponti was the producer of some minor glam metal acts and the A&R manager of Skid Row and Nelson. The album Angels Never Die( 1993), was produced and largely written and performed by Ponti himself and Vic Pepe .Itis a mix of melodic hard rock songs and power ballads.It was commercial pop metal album. The album had limited success in Europe. The video for the song "Bad Blood" was voted Best Anti-Racism Video during the first MTV Europe Music Awards ceremony in 1994. The tour of Angels Never Die introduced in the line-up of Doro's band the American musicians Joe Taylor (ex-Lita Ford Band) on lead guitar, Jimmy DiLella (ex-Waysted, Mariah and Tyketto) on guitar and keyboards, and Chris Branco on drums. Branco was soon replaced by Johnny Dee (ex-Waysted and Britny Fox) and this line-up recorded in 1993 the live album Doro Live.This album was released also in VHS. Doro headlined her first Wacken Open Air festival on 20 August 1993.
Machine II Machine, the second album produced by Jack Ponti, was created through the efforts of musicians with different musical backgrounds. The album explores new grounds for Doro.Sound is closer to mainstream rock music. It was her last studio album published by PolyGram/Vertigo. The ten-year contract with the label that Warlock had signed in 1985, PolyGram did not renovate. Doro entered in negotiations with other record labels. In a pause of her touring schedule in October 1995, Doro made acting debut as a guest star on the German television soap opera Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love).
Doro signed a worldwide contract with the major record label WEA (now Warner Music Group).At the end of 1995 and started writing new material with Jürgen Engler and Chris Lietz of the German industrial metal and EBM band Die Krupps. Doro also worked on other songs with Jimmy Harry and Fred Maher in the US. The result was album Love Me in Black. WEA decided the album unsuitable for the US market and published it only in Germany. American guitarist Mario Parrillo (ex-Detente and Fear of God) joined Taylor, Douglas and the returning Johnny Dee in Doro's band for the following tour.
After the "Love Me in Black" tour in 1998 Doro parted ways with WEA.She signed with the German label SPV/Steamhammer. Through the action of her American fan club she was received and accepted a proposal from Koch Records for a US deal.
In 2000, the album Calling the Wild was published in two different versions in Europe and in the US. The tracks of Calling the Wild are played by a large number of musicians and featured Bob Kulick, Slash, Al Pitrelli and Eric Singer. The album includes the songs "Love Me Forever" and "Alone Again".They was recorded in California with the leader of the English band Motörhead Ian 'Lemmy' Kilmister. The music of Calling the Wild is straight hard rock and heavy metal and leaves behind the experiments of her works of the 1990s.The song "Burn It Up" was written to be the himn of the Düsseldorf–based NFL Europe football team Rhein Fire.At the beginning of the century heavy metal was regaining the favors of the public.Doro made her comeback in the US with a date at New Jersey Metal Meltdown II festival .She then started her first US tour in ten years supporting Dio and Yngwie Malmsteen.The publis was given her admirations to her. Doro's band toured also in Europe.They was visitied Russia for the first time. Pesch made a guest appearance at Wacken Open Air 2001 for a duet with Sabina Classen , memeber and lead vocal of the German thrash metal band Holy Moses on the song "Too Drunk to Fuck".
While touring with Dio in the US in late 2000, Mario Parrillo died a short time from an undiagnosed form of cancer. Oliver Palotai ( a young German-Hungarian classically-trained musician ), took the place on a guitar and keyboards in Doro's band after the end of the tour.
Doro have started to prepare for her eight studio album, titled Fight, in 2002. Before the album release, she played, at the two largest German metal festivals, Wacken Open Air and Bang Your Head!!!. The new album was featured of all the members of her touring band. Guest musicians on the album were Jean Beauvoir, Chris Caffery, Russ Ballard and Type O Negative singer Peter Steele. The song "Always Live to Win" replaced "Burn It Up" . The song "Fight" was the first of four anthems composed by Doro.They used to introduce the fights of her friend and German female boxing champion Regina Halmich ("She's Like Thunder", "The Queen" and a new version of "All We Are"). Because of her friendship with Halmich, Doro was involved in an exhibition match on German RTL Television.Her opposer was Michaela Schaffrath.
The Metal Queen
By this time, fans, press and internet community often referred to Doro with the moniker Metal Queen. toThat was the way show their respect for the uninterrupted career of the German singer.During her European tour with Saxon, Bonfire and Circle II Circle, Doro organized a special concert at Phillips Halle in Düsseldorf to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of her first album Burning the Witches. She invited many musicians that she had befriended and collaborated with in her career. On 13 December 2003, she performed in front of more than 6,000 peoplewith guests Blaze Bayley, Udo Dirkschneider, Lemmy, Mikkey Dee, Jean Beauvoir, Claus Lessmann and members of Saxon and Circle II Circle. The concert was released on a double DVD in 2006 with the title 20 Years – A Warrior Soul.
In the following tour Doro was present at many festivals around the world. The band headlined the very first female-fronted metal US festival Flight of the Valkyries on 27 June 2007 in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Both Taylor and Palotai were in the band on 13 December 2008 at the more than three-hour special concert that Doro held at ISS Dome in Düsseldorf to celebrate her 25th anniversary of activity in front of 9,000 spectators. The show was introduced by performances of the bands Holy Moses, Leaves' Eyes and Arch Enemy. The main part began with songs from Doro's career, including duets with Bobby Ellsworth (Overkill), Jean Beauvoir, Chris Boltendahl (Grave Digger), Axel Rudi Pell, Klaus Meine and Rudolf Schenker (Scorpions), Tarja Turunen (ex-Nightwish), Warrel Dane (Nevermore), Liv Kristine, Floor Jansen, Ji-In Cho, Girlschool and other female singers who had sang in the single "Celebrate". The show included another reunion of the 1986 formation of Warlock and culminated with all the guests, other musicians (like Alexander Krull, Tom Angelripper, members of Saltatio Mortis) and friends of the German singer on stage to sing "All We Are". The event was released in 2010 in the double DVD 25 Years in Rock... and Still Going Strong by Nuclear Blast, Doro's new record label.
A few days after the show Doro was in Tilburg, the Netherlands, to participate at the first edition of Christmas Metal Symphony. She sang accompanied by a band of Dutch metal musicians and by a symphonic orchestra.
Doro's album Fear No Evil was released in January 2009 .It was her last collaboration with guitarist Joe Taylor( lefted to join Cycle Of Pain ). His place was taken by the Dutch guitarist Bas Maas (ex-After Forever). The line-up of Pesch, Maas, Princiotta, Douglas and Dee went on a world tour for most of 2009 and 2010, reaching North and South America, Russia, China and, for the first time, Japan Doro supported Saxon in their 2009 UK tour and Motörhead in Germany in 2010.During this , guitarist Princiotta was sometimes substituted by Robert Katrikh or by Harrison Young. Doro's band appeared at festivals all over the world, performed on Wacken Open Air and Metal Female Voices Fest 7 (where she dueted again with Tarja Turunen) in 2009, Hellfest in France Bang Your Head!!! in Germany and Bloodstock Open Air in Great Britain in 2010.
Doro
Doro Pesch has always been very reserved and careful in protecting her privacy off-stage. She consciously renounced a family in order to dedicate all of her time to her music and her fans.The lyrics of the song "You Are My Family", exemplify this decision.After the death of her father in 2000,Doro's mother Barbara manages her fan club.
She has homes in Düsseldorf, Germany and in Long Island, New York, where she usually resided when not on tour, until her house was destroyed by hurricane Irene in August 2011. She received her green card to live and work in the USA in 1991. Doro owns, with former Die Krupps members Chris Lietz and Jürgen Engler, Atom H recording studios in Düsseldorf.
Doro's stage clothes are handmade.The models she designs using synthetic materials which imitate leather after the singer's adhesion to PETA. She also supports the no-profit organization Terre des Femmes . Doro has been a trained Thai boxer. She started practicing in 1995. She still enjoys graphic arts. She painting in her limited free time.
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