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Robert Görl is a German musician (drums,keyboards),songwriter and producer. Born in Munchen,Germany 1955.
He is most famous as a member of the group D.A.F. (
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft), which he became a part of in 1978 together with
Gabi Delgado-Lopez.
They reached the charts with songs like "
Der Mussolini", "
Kebab Traume", and "
Der Rauber und der Prinz", as well as huge success and two sell out tours with the album
Alles Ist Gut. D.A.F. recieves a German Music Award for this album.
In 1983 D.A.F. splits up.
As a solo artist Görl released his first album "Night Full of Tension" in 1983 on Mute Records.
On this album Annie Lennox (Eurythmics) collaborated on a couple of tracks (Charlie Cat & Darling Don`t Leave Me).
Robert Görl had played drums on the Eurythmics album "In The Garden" in 1981. The link was Conny Plank. Both D.A.F. and Eurythmics
used Plank as a producer and the same studio in Cologne.
Robert Görl released the singles "Mit Dir" c/w "Beruhrt Verfuhrt" and "Darling Don`t Leave Me" c/w "Eckhardt`s Party" and "Aist Wieder Da".
In 1986 Robert moves to New York to study one year at the Stella Adler Conservatory of acting. In the summer of -86 he met Gabi Delgado back in Germany, and they released the D.A.F. album "First Step to Heaven". But D.A.F. does not make a comeback.
From -87 til 1993: Görl works with a solo project together with some canadian musicians, but the material was never released. After this (in.88) Görl was in a heavy car accident and left the music scene for a while. He travelled around in asian countries (Nepal,India,Thailand and Bangladesh) and followed the Buddha tradition.
1994-1998: Robert returns to the music scene and Germany. In this period he produces four Solo albums for the Munich Techno-Label "Disco B",
and appears on stage again on the events Loveparade,Mayday and Universe.
1999: A long stay at a Monastery in Thailand.
2000: Görl and Delgado meets up to start the Comeback for D.A.F.
2003: The first comeback concert for D.A.F. at the Berlin-Loveparade. Robert and Gabi work hard on all fronts for D.A.F. and publish the album
"Funfzehn neue D.A.F. Lieder" (Fifteen new D.A.F. songs), and the single "Der Sheriff".
2004: Görl tours Europe with D.A.F. and work simultaneously on a new Solo album.
2005: D.A.F. splits up again.
2006: Robert wrote his first electronic symphony named "Dark Tool Symphony".
2007: Release of "Dark Tool Symphony". In spring -07 Robert plays Live in Kyoto and Tokyo.
In September he is back in Japan and played Live at the WIRE 07 in Tokyo.
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