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Dschinghis Khan
Dschinghis Khan (known in Australia, France among other countries as Genghis Khan) is a German (former West Germany) pop band originally formed in 1979 to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest.
The group's name was taken from the title of their song, "Dschinghis Khan", which was written and produced by Ralph Siegel with lyrics by Bernd Meinunger.In Australia in 1980, their single Moscow (the English-language version of their song Moskau) topped the charts and remained No.1 for six weeks.While the group broke up in the mid-1980s, the German video for "Moskau" was a part of the show Disco on ZDF; as was their similarly staged number "Dschinghis Khan".Dancer and front man Louis Potgieter, died of AIDS in 1993, while singer Steve Bender (real name: Karl-Heinz Bender) succumbed to cancer in 2006.Interesting factsIn 1988, Leslie Mándoki and Éva Csepregi, the vocalist of Hungarian pop group Neoton Familia sang the song "Korea" on the opening of the Summer Olympics in Seoul.In an interview by Russian TV presenter Alexandra Glotova, the producer of the group Dschinghis Khan Heinz Gross said that in the 1980s the band was forbidden in the USSR and was accused of anti-Communism and nationalism.
