Doro

Quick Facts

Full Name	Doro
Occupation	Metal Singer
Date Of Birth	Jun 3, 1964(1964-06-03)
Age	60
Birthplace	Germany
Country	Germany
Horoscope	Gemini

Doro Biography

Doro is one of the most popular and richest Metal Singer who was born on June 3, 1964 in Germany, Germany. German vocalist who came to prominence as the frontwoman for the metal band Warlock, with whom she performed from 1982 to 1988. She later embarked on a successful, multi-decade solo career, during which she came to be known as one of the most respected women in metal music.

She recorded two songs with Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister for her 2000 album Calling the Wild.

Dorothee Pesch (born 3 June 1964), popularly known as Doro Pesch or Doro, 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 continuously changed in more than twenty years of uninterrupted activity, the most stable presences being those of bassist Nick Douglas and drummer Johnny Dee.

In the 1980s the presence of women in rock, and in particular in heavy metal bands, was usually considered by press and fans more for glamour and sexual exploitation than for the musicianship showed. Doro Pesch was one of the few exceptions; her qualities as vocalist and songwriter in Warlock, her commitment in promoting their music and her avoidance of posturing as a sex symbol won the respect of a solid fan base in the expanding European metal scene of that period, ensuring a long string of favorable articles and covers on the principal European metal magazines. In an interview in 2006 Doro remembered how “we lived in paradise and had not noticed it, (…) we thought at the time, that now it goes on and on and the success would continue automatically, (…) then came the great awakening”.

Her father Walter passed away in 2000. Her mother has served as the manager of the Doro fan club.

Doro Net Worth

Doro is one of the richest Metal Singer from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Doro 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She grew up influenced by glam rock acts like Slade and T. Rex. She began singing in her fist band, Snakebite, in 1980.

She headlined the 2007 Flight of the Valkyries festival, the first U.S. festival to feature exclusively female-fronted metal bands.

Dorothee Pesch was born in Düsseldorf, Germany 3 June 1964, as the only child of Walter, a truck driver, and Barbara Pesch. Doro’s first memory of rock music is the song “Lucille” by Little Richard, which she sang when she was three years old. She learned to play piano and started singing at the age of ten years, when she was exposed to the glam rock of bands like T. Rex, Sweet and Slade. When she was sixteen and after a life-threatening form of tuberculosis, she decided to dedicate more of her time and energy to singing, without giving up her study of graphic design. In 1980, she was accepted in her first band called Snakebite, which was playing rock music in a Düsseldorf basement used as rehearsal 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.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Doro Dating?

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Her frequent European tours in the 1990s maintained her visibility in the eyes of the fans and granted her enough income to survive the bleak period. She became so popular in Spain that she was voted for 13 times Best International Singer by the readers of the music magazine Heavy Rock in their annual polls. She often declared to live and tour for the fans and said that she “would never cancel a tour and everybody knows that about me”. Lemmy, in a 2003 interview, testified how nice and professional Doro is.

Facts & Trivia

Doro Ranked on the list of most popular Metal Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Doro celebrates birthday on June 3 of every year.

During the rise of grunge and alternative rock in the 1990s, her record label relegated her productions only to the European region, where she continued to tour extensively. She remained a successful charting artist in Germany, despite living and producing her albums in the US. When classic heavy metal found again the favour of the public, she returned to tour all over the world and her popularity as a veteran singer grew considerably, 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, whom she has befriended in her long career.

Who is considered the queen of metal?

Doro Pesch
Birth name| Dorothee Pesch
Also known as| “Metal Queen”
Born| 3 June 1964 Düsseldorf, West Germany
Genres| Heavy metal

Who was the lead singer of Warlock?

Warlock were a German heavy metal band founded in 1982 in Düsseldorf by members of the underground bands Snakebite and Beast. The band gained popularity and some commercial success in Europe in the mid-1980s, due to the personality and stage presence of lead vocalist Doro Pesch.

Which was the first heavy metal band?

The first heavy metal acts are considered to be Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple , often referred to as the “unholy trinity”. Led Zeppelin released their self-titled debut in 1969, while Black Sabbath and Deep Purple put out influential records in 1970.

Where is the band Warlock from?

Düsseldorf, Germany

What is the king of metal?

Gold , which is not only the most valuable of metals, but also is without its peer in freedom from alloy. It is got without smelting; wherever it exists it is visible to the eye; and it consorts with little else than pure silver. Even with this precious alloy, the pure metal ranges from sixty to ninety-nine per cent.