Lou Bega
Pop
The next Lou Bega concert is scheduled for Saturday, July 26, 2025 at Schloss Langenselbold in Langenselbold, Germany. See all 5 upcoming concerts
![Watch Gentleman (ZDF-Fernsehgarten 10.06.2001) [VOD] music video by Lou Bega](/mkimage/image/thumb/Video113/v4/30/9f/e7/309fe783-5528-fd44-6408-36d306c78800/8864459451710101.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch Gentleman (ZDF-Fernsehgarten 10.06.2001) [VOD] music video by Lou Bega")
About Lou Bega
Hometown
Munich, Germany
Born
April 13, 1975
Genre
Pop
German pop singer Lou Bega had the world dancing with his 1999 smash “Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of ...),” which topped charts across Europe and the UK and peaked at No. 3 in the US. Bega was nominated for a Grammy for the song.
• The singer was raised in Munich by a Sicilian mother and a Ugandan father. Bega started out as a rapper before shifting gears with “Mambo No. 5,” his debut single.
• Bega’s version of “Mambo No. 5” was an update of a 1949 instrumental piece by the Cuban bandleader Pérez Prado. Bega sampled the original, adding lyrics and a new beat.
• The single’s success helped propel Bega’s first LP, 1999’s A Little Bit of Mambo, to No. 3 in Germany and the US and No. 1 in several other countries. It was Bega’s highest-charting album.
• Bega’s second single, 1999’s “I Got a Girl,” didn’t match the success of “Mambo No. 5,” though it was a Top 20 hit in Germany, Austria, Finland, France, and Sweden.
• Of the four subsequent albums Bega released, only 2001’s Ladies and Gentlemen made the German charts, peaking at No. 54. His most recent album, A Little Bit of 80’s, came out in 2013.
• Bega returned in 2019 with a new single, “Scatman & Hatman,” which samples Scatman John’s 1994 single “Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop).”
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