(CBS 11) - Todays' Friday Fun Song has its roots going back 70 years to 1949 when Cuban musician/performer Perez Prado recorded this song originally. Lou Bega (born David Lubega on April 13, 1975 ...

Jazz musician Perez Prado's bio, concert & touring information, albums, reviews, videos, photos and more.

The music for Bega’s “Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of)” was originally composed by Cuban musician Dámaso Pérez Prado as an instrumental mambo and jazz dance song in 1949, which he later ...

Rather it demonstrates that prado was a single composer with different facets arising from diverse circumstances and artistic and economic needs, but based on the same musical foundations. prado was a ...

Lou Bega knows exactly why “Mambo No. 5” has endured. “There’s two levels. The superficial level that we all enjoy. We dance to it—it’s joyful,” Bega says of his 1999 megahit ...

Bob the Builder, the animated children's character, scores his second number one single hit with Mambo Number 5.