Lou Bega

Profile and Story. His labels are Lautstark, BMG, RCA Records, Condon Musical Enterprise, Unicade Music, DA Music and Big Records. Pop are his genres. The story was written on Wikipedia, Lou Bega is a German singer (Musician). He was born April 13, 1975 (Munich, Bavaria, West Germany). Bega started his musical career as a rapper. At age of 13 he founded a Hip hop group with two other boys. It would be two years before Bega and his friends' first CD would be released in 1990. When Bega lived in Miami he discovered Latin American music. After returning to Munich he met his former manager, Goar Biesenkamp, as well as the music producers, "Frank Lio" (Achim Kleist) and "D.Fact" (Wolfgang von Webenau) (Syndicate Musicproduction) with whom he developed the concept for the song Mambo No. 5. Bega signed a recording contract to the label Lautstark. Lou Bega’s musical signature consists of combining musical elements of the 40’s and 50’s with modern beats and grooves. Lou Bega (1999) His first single "Mambo No. 5" became an instant worldwide hit charting at #1 in most European countries including Germany,[4] UK[5] and France and at #3 in the United States. In France "Mambo No. 5" spent twenty weeks at #1, which is an unbroken record to date.[citation needed] It was also used by the British television broadcaster, Channel 4 for their coverage of Test Match cricket between 1999 and 2005. On July 19, 1999 he released the album A Little Bit of Mambo. It peaked at #3 in the USA. In Germany, Bega's native country, it also peaked at #3. In the UK the album peaked only at #50. A Little Bit of Mambo peaked at #1 in the album charts of Austria, Canada, Finland, Hungary, the Middle East, Portugal, and Switzerland. The second single, "I Got a Girl", charted well entering the Top 10 in some European countries including France, Finland and Belgium. The third single, "Tricky, Tricky" achieved place 18 on the Canadian charts and place 74 on the American Billboard Charts. „Mambo Mambo“ reached place 11 on the French charts. Bega's second studio album Ladies and Gentlemen was released on May 28, 2001. "Baby Keep Smiling" is on this album, a duet with Compay Segundo from Buena Vista Social Club A Little Bit of Mambo includes a version without him. Bega also covered the standard "Just a Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody" on Ladies and Gentlemen. He sang the theme song for the Disney Channel animated series, Brandy and Mr. Whiskers..... reference and read more detail Lou Bega on Wikipedia

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