Soon the band drafted Dave Gahan to be the lead singer after hearing him sing " Heroes" by David Bowie. Fletcher recruited Gore into his band Composition of Sound along with Vince Clarke. In 1980, Gore met Andy "Fletch" Fletcher at the Van Gogh club. Career File:Depeche-mode-martin-gore2.jpg Gore has two younger half sisters, Karen, born in 1967, and Jacqueline, born in 1968. During evenings, weekends and any other spare time, he was involved with the local band Norman and the Worms with school friend Phil Burdett who later went on to become a singer/songwriter himself. He left Nicholas Comprehensive, Basildon in 1977 and took a job as a bank cashier.
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Gore responds to the source's information and is quoted in Miller's book saying, "It brings up family traumas" and "It's one of those things I'd rather not talk about". When he was 13, he learned that his biological father was an African-American serviceman and, as an adult, later met him in the American South. He believed his stepfather was his biological father until age thirteen. Gore was raised by his stepfather and biological mother. Gore's biological father was an African-American G.I. Martin Lee Gore was born in Dagenham, Essex in England.
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