Mandoki Soulmates
This is where the band leader band plays in Germany
The Mandoki Soulmates at a concert in Hamburg.
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In September, the Mandoki Soulmates will catch up on their “30 Years Anniversary Tour”: Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Dresden and Leipzig are planned.
Finally anniversary tour for the Mandoki Soulmates! The band leader around Leslie Mandoki (70) has been around for 30 years, and in September the group will celebrate its founding with five stations in Germany.
The pandemic had made the men’s live performances even more difficult than other bands, as Mandoki explains in a press release: “The Mandoki Soulmates are a band of bandleaders. Many of our members have to plan for the long term and the complexity of our logistics where each Soulmate traveling from all parts of the world from their own tours does not allow us to work on the formula ‘one step forward – two steps back’.”
The tour, originally planned for 2022, had to be postponed. A possible advantage: There will probably be new material to be heard at the dates in September. Mandoki promised a new album by the band for January 24, 2024.
The tour dates of the “30 Years Anniversary Tour”
In September, the mustache wearer can be seen with “a large number of legendary world-class rock and jazz stars,” according to a press release. To be more precise: September 1st in the Laeizhalle in Hamburg, September 2nd in the Admiralspalast in Berlin, September 3rd in the Circus Krone in Munich, September 4th in the Kulturpalast in Dresden and September 5th in the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
Band leader Mandoki celebrated his breakthrough with the pop group Dschinghis Khan, with which he took fourth place in the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest. As a producer, he worked with artists such as Phil Collins (72), Lionel Richie (73) and the band No Angels. In 1993 he founded the Mandoki Soulmates, an all-star project dedicated to experimental tones such as progressive rock and jazz with well-known artists from bands such as Supertramp, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Toto.
In addition to Mandoki himself, founding members of the Mandoki Soulmates were Ian Anderson (75) from Jethro Tull, Jack Bruce (71) from Cream, Al Di Meola (68) and David Clayton-Thomas (81) from Blood, Sweat & Tears, Bobby Kimball ( 76) by Toto and some more. The band has already released 12 albums.