Horst Wende was born on 5 November 1919 in Zeitz, Germany. He was an actor, known for Die grosse Chance (1957) and ZDF Hitparade (1969). He died on 23 January 1996 in Hamburg, Germany.
Under the alias Roberto Delgado his albums became popular in Europe, and then found an audience in the UK, Japan and North America as Polydor opened up several international subsidiaries.
The Delgado recordings were initially Latin-oriented, but they eventually covered a number of different musical genres including African, Italian, Jewish, Oriental, Russian, Greek and Jamaican music as well as Broadway musicals and current pop hits.