Ladies and gentlemen, this is Mambo Number 5, a deep voice introduces the late ’90s hit against a growing rhythm. “Mambo No. 5” arrived in 1999, ushering in the new millennium with its buoyant Latin ...

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 ...

So many of us assumed that Lou Bega disappeared after the mambo and jive trend died in the United States in 1999, but we were all wrong. Clearly, he's resurfaced and merged souls with Ben Affleck, a ...

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 ...