Pat Davis

Pat "Madam Butterfly" Davis (b. c.1956) was an American dancer who performed on the television music show Soul Train during the 1970s.

Biography Davis was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and was five years old when she moved to Los Angeles, California, where she grew up. She said she loved dancing from when she was a child, and put on multiple performances for money from a young age. She became popular for her unique dancing during a dance segment of the show known as the Soul Train line.

She has been called a "fashion and dance icon." She received a lot of fan mail. She was known for wearing 1940s fashions and always having a flower or butterfly clip in her hair.

Davis frequently used props, including once sucking on a baby's bottle during the Soul Train line.

Davis was sometimes known as "The Butterfly", "Madam Butterfly" or "China Doll." She danced on the music performance show American Bandstand and appeared on the television show The Dating Game. At the first Soul Train Gang reunion, Davis was voted “Soul Train's Original All Time Diva”. Davis had a cameo appearance in the 1977 movie Disco 9000 where she did a dance to "Disco Lady" by Johnnie Taylor. She was in several groups including Something Special and the duo Essence.

She moved to Vienna, Austria in the early 80s to start a solo music/dance career, then toured through Europe. She married doctor Karl Bachmayer on June 12, 2007.