Hungarian-born Leslie Mándoki (Mándoki László) (born January 7, 1953 in Budapest) was a performer for music group Dschinghis Khan and has since then gone solo performing to this day. Events 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Budapest ( also /ˈbʊ-/) is the capital city of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary it serves as the country's principal Political, Dschinghis Khan (Pronounced ˈdʒɪŋɪs kaːn was a German pop band created in 1979 to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Leslie Mandoki studied drums and percussion at the musical conservatory of Budapest in the early 1970s. At the same time he was a band leader for the local jazz-rock group JAM, citing groups like Cream and Jethro Tull as his influence. Cream were a 1960s British rock band In July 1975 Leslie Mandoki together with Gabor Csupo and others fled from Hungary to Munich, Germany to avoid prosecution by the communist government for being a member of the student opposition. Gábor Csupó (gabɔr tʃupo (Csupó Gábor ( 29 September 1952 in Budapest) is a Hungarian -born Animator and co-founder of the Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic Munich (München; Minga is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. At first unsuccessful as a solo artist, he became well known in the 1980s as a member of the pop band Dschinghis Khan and later with more serious musical work.
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Mandoki has created the Park Studios near Lake Starnberg, one of the largest studios in Europe. Lake Starnberg ( Starnberger See) in southern Bavaria is Germany 's fourth largest lake and a popular recreation area for the nearby city of Munich He has worked as a producer for many German and international acts, including No Angels, Phil Collins, Engelbert, Joshua Kadison, Lionel Richie and Jennifer Rush. The No Angels are an ECHO Award -winning all-female pop group from Germany. Philip David Charles Collins, LVO (born 30 January 1951 Chiswick, London) is an English Singer-songwriter, Drummer Engelbert Humperdinck (born Arnold George Dorsey, May 2 1936, Madras India) is a well-known British - American Joshua Kadison (born  February 8 1963 in Santa Barbara, California) is an American singer-songwriter pianist and writer Lionel Brockman Richie Jr (born June 20 1949 is an Academy Award and Grammy award-winning American Singer, Songwriter, Jennifer Rush is a New York, American based Pop/Rock, R&B, and Adult Contemporary Singer, best known for the He also worked as a musical director for commercials, with clients Audi, Daimler and Disney. AUDI AG, ( Xetra: NSU commonly known as Audi (aˈʊdi is a German Automobile manufacturer which produces Audi branded cars with headquarters Daimler AG ( (formerly DaimlerChrysler AG) is a German car corporation (not to be confused with the British car-maker Daimler Motor Company) and
Dschinghis Khan was the German entry for the Eurovision Song Contest broadcast throughout Europe in 1979, finishing on 4th place.
He performed on 15 episodes of the music show "ZDF Hitparade" with Dschinghis Khan between 1979 and 1982.
In 2003 he played a guest role on three episodes of the German teenager television series Schloss Einstein. Schloss Einstein (SE is a German Television program for Children and Teenagers which describes the life of Teenagers
In April and November 2004 Mandoki produced and guest-starred in a band dubbed Soulmates together with many acclaimed international artists in the two-part television show "50 Jahre Rock" (50 years of rock) on ZDF hosted by Thomas Gottschalk. Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen ("Second German Television" ZDF, is a public service German Television channel based in Mainz. Thomas Gottschalk (born May 18, 1950) is a famous German TV host Material from these shows was later used for the album "Legends of Rock".
In the well-known "Moskau" video, he is wearing the green outfit.
Mandoki is a passionate cook and has often prepared meals for his friends, including many musicians as well as former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife Raisa Gorbachyova according to Mandoki's official Website. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev ( Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov;; born 2 March 1931 in Privolnoye Stavropol Krai) is a Russian politician Raisa Maksimovna Gorbachyova (Раи́са Макси́мовна Горбачёва born Titarenko (Титаре́нко ( 5 January, 1932 –