Lou Bega’s signature song, “Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of…),” is celebrating its 25th anniversary.kpa/United Archives via Getty Images In the spring of 1999, a 24-year-old guy with a Panama hat, a ...

The Clinton-Lewinsky scandal was all over the news in 1998. Billboard reports “Mambo No. 5” reached the peak of its popularity in 1999. Someone called “Monica” is mentioned in the chorus of the song.

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 documenting a series of ...

The 1999 hit with a lot of names and a little bit of "mambo" is easy to remember, but whatever happened to its hat-wearing crooner, Lou Bega? FOX411 caught up with the "Mambo No. 5" singer to ...

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 a ...

(CBS 11) - Todays' Friday Fun Song has its roots going back 70 years to 1949 when Cuban musician/performer Perez Prado recorded this song originally. Lou Bega (born David Lubega on April 13, 1975) is ...

In 2018, the Queen movie Bohemian Rhapsody reinforced the fact that a music biopic can be tremendously successful: It’s the highest-grossing music biopic in US history. There is money to be had and ...

Tracy Morgan channeled a little bit of Lou Bega on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The actor unveiled the “exclusive world premiere” of mock biopic Mambo No. 5. The spoof traced the origins of Lou Bega’s 1999 hit, ...

Pop singer Lou Bega has revealed that he has been inundated with messages of condolences from people who have mistakenly muddled him up with the iconic rock star Lou Reed, who died at the weekend.

Ebbsfleet United finally made defender Yado Mambo their honorary number five – and after becoming the talk of Twitter to help raise more than £1,500 for the fight against prostate cancer, it could ...