Freddy Quinn (born Franz Eugen Helmut Manfred Nidl; 27 September 1931)[1] is an Austrian singer and actor whose popularity in the German-speaking world soared in the late 1950s and 1960s.

As Hans Albers had done two generations before him, Quinn adopted the persona of the rootless wanderer who goes to sea but longs for a home, family and friends.

At the end of World War II, as part of a refugee group, Quinn encountered American troops in Bohemia.

The boy was immediately sent back to Europe and, before returning to his mother in Vienna, was stranded for a whole year in Antwerp in a children's home, where he learned to speak French and Dutch.

[4] Other hits, often with him simply billed as Freddy, followed: "Die Gitarre und das Meer" (1959), "Unter fremden Sternen" (1959), "Irgendwann gibt's ein Wiedersehn" (1960), "La Paloma" (1961),[3] "Junge, komm bald wieder" (1962).