Real name: Karl-Heinz Bender

Effective period / Period of releases: 1975

German singer, composer, songwriter and music producer, born 2 November 1942 in Mainz, Germany and died from cancer 9 May 2006 in Munich, Germany.

"Steve Bender" is better known as the bald singer of Dschinghis Khan, who eventually became fourth on the Eurovision Song Festival in Jerusalem in 1979. He quit the group shortly after, to establish his own production enterprise, but joined them again later for some reunion shows.