Beatrix Delgado

Beatrice Obrecht, also known by the stage names Beatrix Delgado and Trixi Delgado, is a Swiss singer born on 21 June 1966 in Davos. She became known for her role as the vocalist of the eurodance group Masterboy, a reference in the genre in the mid-1990s.

Daughter of a musician father and a dancer mother, she studied singing with her father for seven years; her husky voice is partly due to a polyp on one vocal cord. From age 15 she sang in various rock bands; in the 1980s, during a concert in Pforzheim (Germany), she was noticed by Enrico Zabler, then 21 years old.

In 1989 Enrico Zabler and Tommy Schleh founded Masterboy. After a first album with other performers they sought a new singer: Enrico thought of Beatrice, who joined the group in 1993 under the name Trixi, leaving her job as a taxi driver. Her first major hit with the group was Fall in trance, which charted in several European countries; the following single, Everybody needs somebody, accompanied by the first video clip, propelled the group to international success.

A string of hits followed, the biggest being Feel the heat of the night, which went gold several times; the album Different Dreams also achieved a gold record in France. Unlike many eurodance singers, Beatrix co-composed almost all Masterboy tracks. Late in 1993 she contributed discreetly to the project Cardenia on the track Living on video.

In 1996, at the height of success and after participating on the album Generation of love, she left Masterboy to focus on her private life; the departure, occurring while the group enjoyed strong commercial performance, prompted questions and rumours of tensions with the founders. Her replacement by Linda Rocco was poorly received and coincided with the start of eurodance’s decline.

Shortly after, in 1996, she launched a solo career under the pseudonym Latour with the single Falling for your love, produced by members of Double AA; the more house/techno-oriented style and her new look did not achieve the expected success.

She reappeared in 1998 as a duo partner with Nancy Rentzsch — singer and wife of DJ Bobo — on the euroreggae track Hold on to your dream, written and produced by DJ Bobo, Axel Breitung and Nancy Rentzsch; she also appears on Together in 1999, but these collaborations did not regain her former success.

In 2002, after years of waning success for Masterboy and several changes of singers, Enrico Zabler and Tommy Schleh reconnected with Beatrix; a discussion cleared the misunderstanding that caused their split and the trio reformed to release the single I need a lover tonight, which Beatrix helped write; commercial success did not follow. A final single, Feel the heat of the night 2003, was released in 2003.

Subsequently, Beatrix collaborated with Tommy Schleh on his solo projects under the name Klubbingman; she appears on Revolution (We call it) and Love message (2005), then on Ride on a white train (2006) and Never stop this feeling (2007), by which time she had definitively adopted the Beatrix Delgado pseudonym. Since 2006 she has lived in Hamburg and performs in German clubs with her own repertoire, including tracks like Inside out and Spread your wings, marking a stylistic distance from dance.