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 ...

Kennedy. Originally released in 1949 by Cuban musician Dámaso Pérez Prado as a purely instrumental track, the dance hit was revitalized in 1999 when Lou Bega, a German singer, gave the song ...

During a performance at Total Dance Fesztivál Cabrio in Budapest, Hungary back in May, late-90s one-hit-wonder Lou Bega didn’t take that advice. While singing his hit dance number “Mambo No ...

Lou Bega was born in Germany ... At the time, he was dating a salsa dancer named Maria (of “a little bit of Mary” fame in his hit song). “I heard mambo for the first time when she and ...

The dance mix, Stephen ... "Mambo No. 5" was given new life in the summer of '99 by German singer Lou Bega with updated lyrics a prolific scribe of King's stature could only hope to emulate ...

Off Bega’s debut album ... by Cuban musician Dámaso Pérez Prado as an instrumental mambo and jazz dance song in 1949, which he later released in 1950. Bega later added lyrics to the decades ...

Lou Bega released his beloved hit in 1999 ... I played that a lot," he said, before adding, “I had the dance mix. I loved those extended play things and I played both sides of it.

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 ...

The number one single of 1999, with eight weeks at the top of the charts, was a little track by German musician Lou Bega called Mambo No. 5. You know the one we’re talking about, right?

We’ve been looking at Lou Bega all wrong. For decades, the “Mambo No. 5" singer has lived in our cultural memory as a figure of fun—a guy who just loves to dance, name women’s names ...