Lyrics | Artists | Lou Bega

Charts

Genres

Images

Lou Bega

Pop music

Latin

World music

Lou Bega will forever be associated with his infectious, worldwide hit 'Mambo No. 5'. From a seemingly unlikely background involving a German pop artist and Latin American dance music, the song topped the charts in virtually every country in Europe, and triggered a bitter seven-year legal copyright trial between Lou Bega's producers and the estate of Cuban Perez Prado, who'd originally composed it as a jive dance song in 1949. Bega and his producers contested that they'd made such a significant contribution to its style, it should be regarded as a brand new song for which they me...