Ferdy Doernberg
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| Background information | |
| Born | 10 June 1967 |
| Origin | Germany |
| Genres | Hard rock, Heavy Metal |
| Associated acts | Rough Silk, Axel Rudi Pell |
| Website | www |
| Notable instruments | |
| Keyboards | |
Ferdy Doernberg (born 10 June 1967) is an English-German heavy metal musician. He is the last original member of Rough Silk, which he founded in 1989. He has also performed with Helloween and Holy Moses. Since 1997, he has been the keyboardist for Axel Rudi Pell's band. From 2006 to 2009, he played the keyboards for Eden's Curse, which was founded by Michael Eden (Lead Vocals) and Paul Logue (Bassist).
The English/German slide-guitar/keyboards-player and singer/songwriter Ferdy Doernberg was born in 1967 as the son of the British composer and violin-player Martin Doernberg and the German teacher and writer Dr. Gesine Doernberg.
When he was three years old, his parents moved to Barsinghausen, Germany but he spends some time in England, too. When he was six years old, he started with piano lessons. At the age of 12, he also started playing guitar and trumpet.
After playing in several school and local bands, he became the lead guitar player of the locally successful punk band "The Wabbles", with whom he played his first over-regional gigs and did his first recordings for a vinyl single. He also played trumpet and piano in a local jazz ensemble for years. His first professional band, Rough Silk, was founded in 1989. Through the years, Ferdy found his own style of playing. As a keyboard player, his favourite instrument is the Hammond organ, the piano and vintage keyboards like the Wurlitzer-piano, accordion and the monophonic moog synthesizer.
As a guitar player, Doernberg fell in love with the slide-guitar and all her relatives like lap and pedal steel, dobro and the Hawaiian guitar. Rough Silk have recorded 8 albums (the last one, A new beginning, was released in April 2009), and toured a lot (as headliner and supporting for example Helloween, Deep Purple, Savatage, Saxon, Accept, Whitesnake and Dio) all over Europe. Since 2007, Doernberg is also the lead-vocalist of the band.
Doernberg also works a lot as a studio musician (keyboards and slide-guitars) and has played on more than 100 albums by Roland Grapow (Helloween), Destruction, Freedom Call, Metalium, Tom Angelripper (Sodom), Howard Carpendale, Crimson Glory, John Wesley Harding, Chris Caffrey (Savatage), Powergod, Sweet, Jane, Seven Witches, Sargant Fury, Masterplan, The Traceelords and many others.
Besides Rough Silk, he is also a member of the Axel Rudi Pell band (he did 12 albums, 3 DVDs and several tours with him so far). Ferdy has shared the stage with many different musicians like John Wesley Harding, Jason Ringenberg (Jason & The Scorchers), ex-Scorpions musicians Uli Jon Roth and Francis Buchholz, Julian Dawson, Joseph Parsons, Jeff Kollman (U.F.O., Glenn Hughes), Warren De Martini (Ratt), Robbie Krieger (The Doors), Roy Z., Tony Franklin (Whitesnake, Blue Murder), David Paich (Toto), Jeff Scott Soto, Don Dokken, Chris Poland (Megadeth), Therion, Snowy Shaw, (Merciful Fate, Notre Dame), Messiah Marcolin (Candlemass), Gamma Ray, the award-winning country act Autumn Leaves, Freedom Call, Jon Oliva (Savatage), Al Pitrelli (Alice Cooper, Megadeth, Savatage), Emma Bunton (Spice Girls), Olivia Newton-John (TV-show "Wetten Dass..."), the legendary drummer Max Weinberg of Bruce Springsteen's "E-street-band" (Frankfurt-music-fair), Axxis, Ana Popovic and many others. He has toured in Europe, South-America and the US so far.
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