Leslie Mándoki

Leslie Mandoki ( Mandoki actually László, born January 7, 1953 in Budapest) is a Hungarian- German musician (drums), record producer and politician ( CSU).

Mandoki worked for and with Engelbert, Joshua Kadison, Phil Collins, No Angels, Jennifer Rush, Gil Ofarim and Lionel Richie, but also the German rapper Sido.

Mandoki sees itself as a pioneer of the branded entertainment, which provides ideas on behalf of companies, compiles programs and develops formats. He worked as a so-called musical director for Audi and Volkswagen AG, worked for Daimler AG, Disney ( Tarzan ), the state of Mecklenburg -Vorpommern and the FC Bayern Munich. For Audi, he wrote for the 100th anniversary of a symphony, composed jingles and soundtracks. At the 2009 federal election and the 2013 federal election campaign, he produced songs for the CDU.

Life

Leslie Mandoki studied at the Budapest Academy of Music and has been exposed as a supporter of student opposition persecution by the then communist government. In 1975, he fled along with four other musicians and artists, including Gabor Csupo, across the border into Austria and on to Germany. Later he became a German citizen. As a studio musician in Munich at first with little success, he was widely known as a member of the band Dschinghis Khan for the first time.

1982, even during the time when Genghis Khan, Mandoki released the album Back to Myself, that brought a return to his jazz roots, which he considered but even in retrospect as too rough and dark. This was followed with Strangers in Paradise and a Out of Key ... with the Time two albums that sounded far more commercial and even brought him back TV appearances.

This then formed the basis for his ambitious people or Soulmates project. Together with a large contingent of international stars (such as Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, Bobby Kimball of Toto, Jack Bruce of Cream and many others), he released the album People and People in Room No.. 8, on the one hand wide compatible hymns, on the other hand, partly experimental, jazz -influenced rock music offered. In April and November 2004 Mandoki guested together with the artists then known as Soul Mates in Thomas Gottschalk's ZDF - two divider 50 years of rock as the house band. With those musicians a broad retrospective of a variety of rock classics of the 60s, 70s and 80s was presented in two shipments. The records of the broadcasts served as raw material for the little later released album Legends Of Rock on which there are also many tracks from previous albums as well as some previously unreleased live recordings of the band can be heard. He also played in 2005 with the Soul Mates on the celebrations marking the diocese of Münster on an open- air stage in Münster. In 2003 he played in the boarding school Schloss Einstein series with.

Mandoki has composed the campaign song " At each new day " the CDU for the federal election of 2013. During the Bavarian state parliament election in 2013, he took up for the CSU.

Mandoki has three children, including actress Lara Mandoki, and lives in Tutzing on Lake Starnberg.

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