Louis Hendrik Potgieter

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Louis Hendrik Potgieter, also known as Patrick Bailey (Pretoria, April 4, 1951 – 1996, Cape Town) fronted the German novelty act Dschinghis Khan for the six years of the band's existence. He came from a German Boer family in South Africa. In 1975 he came to Europe, and became a dancer in a theater in Munich, where he was spotted by Ralph Siegel. When Siegel, a prolific author of songs for the Eurovision Song Contest, assembled a group to sing his 1979 entry to the contest, he invited Potgieter to join. The group was named after the song, "Dschinghis Khan".

After the group split up some years later, Potgieter returned to South Africa and became a hotel manager.

He died in 1996 of complications from AIDS.