Personal Life
I have no kids or a husband I’m married to the band, crew and the fans (...) that is my family.
“ ” Doro Pesch (2006)Doro Pesch has always been very reserved and careful in protecting her privacy off-stage. She consciously renounced to having a family and children, in order to dedicate all of the time to her musical career and to her fans. The lyrics of the song "You Are My Family", which opens the album Warrior Soul, exemplify this decision. After the death of her father in 2000, her mother Barbara manages the Doro 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, together with former Die Krupps members Chris Lietz and Jürgen Engler, Atom H recording studios in Düsseldorf, where she recorded some of her albums.
Doro's stage clothes are handmade, following models she designs and using synthetic materials which imitate leather after the singer's adhesion to PETA. She also supports the no-profit organization Terre des Femmes, which helps women and girls in need all over the world. Doro has been a trained Thai boxer, sport that she started practicing in 1995. She still enjoys graphic arts and painting in her limited free time.
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