Lou Bega’s signature song, “Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of ... “It shocks me that ‘Scatman & Hatman’ or ‘Angelina’ started to challenge the dominion of ‘No. 5’ in some ...

Lou Bega knows exactly why “Mambo No. 5” has endured. “There’s two levels. The superficial level that we all enjoy. We dance to it—it’s joyful,” Bega says of his 1999 megahit ...

His song Mambo No5 was a sensation ­worldwide – yet for Lou Bega there was more than a little bit of sadness in his life as he topped every chart. The singer today tells how his dad predicted ...

Lou Bega tells Billboard that, thus far this year, he has not spent much time reflecting on the 20th anniversary of "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of…)," which became an international smash in 1999 ...

German-born artist Lou Bega ... a young Bega—born David Lubega Balemezi—into the spotlight. Released as the first single from his 1999 debut album, A Little Bit of Mambo, the song skyrocketed ...

But not one of these songs was the most popular single of that ... was a little track by German musician Lou Bega called Mambo No. 5. You know the one we’re talking about, right?

Off Bega’s debut album, A Little Bit of Mambo, the song topped the charts across Europe and reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold 3.3 million copies in the U.S., and was nominated for ...

(Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images) Crédito: Andreas Rentz / Staff / Getty On April 19, 1999, Lou Bega released his remake of the original Mambo No. 5 song by Cuban musician Dámaso Pérez Prado.