Today we will tell you who Martin Gore is. His songs are known all over the world. This is a British composer, singer, guitarist, keyboardist and DJ. He is the lead singer of Depeche Mode. Participates in the group since 1980, since its inception. Our hero wrote the vast majority of compositions for the team. He also collaborates with Vince Clark. Together they formed a techno duet called VCMG. In 1999, as part of the Ivor Novello Awards ceremony, the musician received an award for "International Achievements".
Childhood and youth
Gore Martin was born in 1961, July 23, in Dagenem, a London suburb. After the appearance of the children, the family went to Basildon. Therefore, the childhood of our hero, as well as his younger sisters Jacqueline and Karen passed in the house, whose address is Shepshall, 16. Stepfather David and the grandfather of the future musician worked at the Ford production. Mother's name was Pamela. She was a worker at a nursing home. The biological father of our hero is an American soldier. He served in Britain. There he met Pamela Gore. The future musician considered his stepfather a father until the age of 13. He met his biological parent for the first time in South America as an adult. Gore Martin began to show interest in pop music after becoming acquainted with a magazine called Disco 45, as well as musicians Roxy Music, David Bowie, Gary Glitter and Sparks. Later, he became interested in the work of syntypop and technostyle veterans - Gary Newman, The Human League, Can, Kraftwerk. Already in his early years, he learned to play the piano and guitar. Such skills allowed the young man to participate in various teenage groups. The musician successfully combined playing the guitar in a duet called Norman & The Worms with his studies at the St. Nicholas School. The young man also met Andrew Fletcher, a future member of the Depeche Mode group, very early. In addition to music, the future singer devoted much time to foreign languages, in particular, the study of German. In 1976, he had the opportunity to go on an exchange to Germany. He lived for a while in Schleswig-Holstein.
Depeche mode
Gore Martin became a member of this team. In 1980, in November, the group received the first mention in the press. This is a Basildon newspaper called Evening Echo. After concluding an informal contract with Mute Studio, as well as Daniel Miller, its leader, the band's popularity began to grow rapidly. The first record was called Speak and Spell. For her, Gore Martin wrote several songs. This work reached the tenth position in the British charts. After some transformations in the composition, our hero had to take the vacant place of the writer. He was incredibly attentive to the lyrical component of the compositions. If he liked the melody, but the words didn’t, he could reject the finished song. The fourth single of the group was a song called See You. It was written by a musician for a long time.
Outside the group
Martin Mountain's solo album appeared in 1988. It was called Counterfeit ep. It was released by Mute in 1989. The work took place in a studio called Sam Therapy together with Rico Conning, the producer. The six songs released on the disc showed the diversity of the author’s tastes.
Personal life
Before the first marriage, our hero met with Christina Friedrich and Ann Swindell. One of the girls for some time assisted Depeche Mode in one of the concert tours. The first wife of Martin Gore - Suzanne Boysvert - from Paris. They married in 1994. The couple had three children: Viva, Eva, as well as the son of Keilo. After twelve years of marriage, the musician divorced his wife. It happened in 2006. The divorce proceedings were very difficult for him. The musician even wrote the song Precious, which he dedicated to his children. In 2011, our hero began a relationship with a new darling named Kerily Kaski. They got married in 2014, in June. In 2016, February 19, the couple had a daughter named Joni.
For the first time, the musician seriously addressed the theme of religion in the 1984 Blasphemous Rumours song. This topic also touched other members of the team. In Blasphemous Rumours, the musician reflected on the sense of humor that God should have, and after the death of the author, he will probably laugh. As predicted by Depeche Mode musicians, numerous critics, as well as representatives of the clergy, took the text literally, accusing the author of these lines of blasphemy. At the same time, a single called Blasphemous Rumours managed to avoid BBC censorship, as a result of which he reached the sixteenth position on the chart.