Lou Bega
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | David Lubega |
| Born |
13 April 1975 Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
| Origin | Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Genres | Pop, latin pop, mambo |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Labels | Lautstark, BMG, RCA Records, Condon Musical Enterprise, Unicade Music, DA Music, Big Records |
| Website | http://www.lou-bega.com |
Lou Bega (born David Lubega on 13 April 1975) is a German mambo musician of Italian and Ugandan descent. He is most famous for "Mambo No. 5", his 1999 remake of the Pérez Prado instrumental from 1949. Bega added his own words to the song and sampled the original version extensively. Bega's musical signature consists of combining musical elements of the 1940s and 1950s with modern beats and grooves.
While Lou Bega was born in Munich, Germany, he is of Italian and Ugandan descent. His mother is from Sicily in southern Italy and his father is Ugandan. His father Charles went to Germany in 1972 to study biology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Until age six, Bega spent the most time with his mother Nicole in Italy. Then they lived permanently in Munich, where Bega attended German primary school. As a teenager he traveled to Miami, Florida, where he found the inspiration for his hit single "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of...)". Bega also lived in Uganda for half a year. Currently, he lives in Berlin, Germany.
On January 7, 2014 he married his longtime girlfriend Jenieva Jane and mother of his 5-year-old daughter Jada Love. The wedding took place in the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas.
Bega started his musical career as a rapper. At the 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. While living in Miami he discovered Latin music. After returning to Munich, Bega met his then manager, Goar Biesenkamp, as well as music producers "Frank Lio" (Achim Kleist) and "Donald Fact" (Wolfgang von Webenau) (Syndicate Musicproduction), with whom he developed the concept for the song "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of...)". Bega signed a recording contract to the label Lautstark.
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