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[[File:dschinghiskhan01.jpg|frame|The great thing about their cover art is that you know ''exactly'' what you're getting.]]
Formed within just few months in 1979, [[Dschinghis Khan]] was the product of the disco boom and following on the heels of other German-produced bands such as [[Boney M]], [[Arabesque]], and [[Silver Convention]]. Their songs were based on historical people and places. The group was formed by music producer Ralph Siegel AKA Mr. Eurovision. Siegel was apparently obsessed with making the next [[ABBA]]. Their name is the German spelling of "[[Genghis Khan]]," the name of the song they sang in their introductory performance in the Eurovision Song Contest. While they didn't win Eurovision, the group achieved great success in Europe, Russia, Israel, Australia, and Japan.▼
▲Formed within just few months in 1979, Dschinghis Khan was the product of the disco boom and following on the heels of other German-produced bands such as Boney M, Arabesque, and Silver Convention. Their songs were based on historical people and places. The group was formed by music producer Ralph Siegel AKA Mr. Eurovision. Siegel was apparently obsessed with making the next [[ABBA]]. Their name is the German spelling of "[[Genghis Khan]]," the name of the song they sang in their introductory performance in the Eurovision Song Contest. While they didn't win Eurovision, the group achieved great success in Europe, Russia, Israel, Australia, and Japan.
The group broke up in the mid-1980s. After the break-up, lead dancer Louis Hendrick Potgieter (known to Youtube users as Dancing Santa Jesus) returned to his native South Africa to manage a hotel. He contracted HIV and died of AIDS in 1993. For this reason he's been considered gay, though evidences (photos of him and his ex-fiancee, a pop/jazz/disco singer Madeleine Davis, as well as comments from his sister) disprove that.
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Their songs include:
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOsoNuKCEJY&feature=related "Dschinghis Khan"] - Actually covered by one of the bands of the [[Hello! Project]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzycFeqNxIA&feature=related "Moskau"] - Their most famous song, which was used by Australia's Channel 7 for thei 1980 Moscow Olympics coverage. [[Banned in China|But not approved by the Soviet government in Moscow]].
* "Rocking Son of Dschinghis Khan" - a hybrid English/German song.
* "Hadschi Halef Omar" - A song that gets away with saying [[The Prophet Muhammad|Muhammad's]] name. Also the refrain is a fictional character's name crated by [[Karl May]], the author of ''[[
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUVUMBWhlgo "Klabautermann"]
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100612075946/http://www.goear.com/listen.php?v=3e90e78 "What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor"] - The only song theirs that only exists as an English version.
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* [[Badass Mustache]]: Leslie Mandocki
* [[Bald of Awesome]]: Steve Bender
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