Joe Delia

• Name — Joe Delia • Birth Name — Joseph Delia • Born — 11 October 1948 • Birthplace — New York City, New York, U.S. • Origin — Brooklyn, New York • Genre — * Blues rock • electronic • film score • avant garde • Occupation — * Singer • musician • songwriter • composer • arranger • Instrument — * Vocals • piano • guitar • synthesizer • Years Active — 1965–present • Current Member Of — Joe Delia & Thieves • Associated Acts — Joe Delia & Thieves • Website — www.joedelia-thieves.com/

Born in Brooklyn, Delia began his career as a teenager in the early sixties, playing piano and singing with his group The Bruthers, who signed to RCA Records and released the 1966 single "Bad Way to Go". Managed by promoter Sid Bernstein, The Bruthers went on to work as a backup band on tours with rock 'n' roll artists Stevie Wonder, The Crystals, Chuck Berry, Little Eva and the Isley Brothers. "Bad Way to Go" was included on the compilation album, Pebbles, Volume 8. Bad Way to Go, compiling The Bruthers' sole single and some unreleased studio recordings, was released Sundazed Music in 2003.

During the seventies, Delia studied composition, arranging, piano and bass violin under the likes of Don Sebesky, Eddie Gómez, and Jimmy Garrison. He was later chosen for the position of Composer in Residence at Sarah Lawrence College for two years under the direction of Shirley Kaplan and June Ekert. He eventually made his way into the studio scene in New York City, playing keyboards and writing arrangements for such diverse artists as Dusty Springfield, Grace Slick, Janis Ian, Pat Benatar, Helen Schneider, The Left Banke, Cory Daye and Engelbert Humperdinck, as well as writing jingles and scoring many industrial films. In Denmark, Delia is best known for his collaboration in the early 1980s with the popular Danish songwriter Kim Larsen when Larsen unsuccessfully tried to break into the American music industry. The eventual result was two albums credited to Kim Larsen and Jungle Dreams; the albums both sold well – but only in Denmark.

Delia toured internationally with rock singer David Johansen, in the 1980s, producing and co-writing his solo album Sweet Revenge, and continued with the co-creation of the Buster Poindexter Show. Over the next five years he served as musical director and piano player for the live show, and is credited as musical director and co-arranger of the self-titled Buster Poindexter album which yielded the hit song "Hot Hot Hot". Partnering with Scandinavian singing star Kim Larsen in the early eighties, Delia produced and co-wrote two albums that topped the pop charts throughout Europe, including a 1981 number one single in France ("Donnez Moi du Feu"), sold-out tours, and platinum albums in France, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. In the early nineties, Delia produced a series of albums on BMG/Music Masters for jazz greats Stanley Turrentine, Freddie Hubbard, Jim Hall, Louis Bellson and his own album Scene of the Crime, which he produced with Max Weinberg (of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band). In 2010, Joe Delia toured with his new band Thieves, featuring Steven Roues, Billy Roues, Klyph Black, James Benard and Pj Delia.

* === For Abel Ferrara === *9 Lives of a Wet Pussy (1976) *The Driller Killer (1979) *Ms. 45 (1981) *Fear City (1984) - Wrote two songs "New York Doll" and "Sucker City" *Miami Vice (1985, television series) – 1 episode *China Girl (1987) *King of New York (1990) *Bad Lieutenant (1992) *Body Snatchers (1993) *Dangerous Game (1993) *The Addiction (1995) *The Funeral (1996) *The Blackout (1997) *Alive in France (2017) *Piazza Vittorio (2017) *Tommaso (2019) *Siberia (2020) *Sportin' Life (2020) *Zeros and Ones (2021) — === For others === *Hoodlums (1980) *Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986, television series) – 6 episodes *Freeway (1988) *Caged Fury (1989) *War of the Worlds (1989–90, television series) – 10 episodes *Body Trouble (1992) *Eternal Champions (1993, video game) *The Enemy Within (1994, television film) *Drunks (1995) *Twilight Highway (1995) *Richard Belzer: Another Lone Nut (1997, television special) *Dellaventura (1997, television series) – 13 episodes *No Looking Back (1998) *The Substitute 2: School's Out (1998) *Fever (1999) *Time Served (1999, television film) *The Tao of Steve (2000) *Ricky 6 (2000) *Nova (2000–10, television series) – 6 episodes *My Best Friend's Wife (2001) *Bridget (2002) *Bitter Jester (2003) *Bought & Sold (2003) *Carlito's Way: Rise to Power (2005) *Digging for the Truth (2005–07, television series) – 26 episodes *Weapon Masters (2008–09, television series) – 8 episodes *National Geographic Explorer (2010, television series) – 1 episode *National Lampoon's Dirty Movie (2011) *National Lampoon's Snatched (2011) *National Lampoon's Another Dirty Movie (2011) *Art = (Love)² (2012) *Santorini Blue (2013) *Isabela: a Green Explorer Expedition (2016)