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Gabi Delgado-López of German Electropunks D.A.F. Dead at 61
25.03.2020 - 07:57 / pitchfork.com
Gabi Delgado-López, co-founder of the German electropunk group Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (or D.A.F.), has died. His bandmate Robert Görl confirmed the news on social media. He was 61.
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft got started in Düsseldorf in 1978 as a punk band. The five-person outfit was pared down to the duo of Delgado-López and Görl, and the band found a sound that merged electronic body music and punk rock. Their political music and imagery offered a consistent rebuke of
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