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David Lubega (born 13 April 1975), better known by his stage name Lou Bega , is a German recording artist. His 1999 song " Mambo No. 5 ", a remake of Pérez Prado 's 1949 instrumental piece, reached Number 1 in many European countries and was nominated for a Grammy Award . 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. Bega was born on 13 April 1975 in Munich , Southern Germany , to a Sicilian mother and a Ugandan father. [1] His father Charles went to Germany in 1972 to study biology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich . [2] Until age six, Bega spent most of his 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...)". [1] Bega also lived in Uganda for six months.[ failed verification ] [3] Currently, he lives in Berlin , Germany. Bega started his musical career as a rapper .[ citation needed ] 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. [2] 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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_label" rel="noopener noreferrer"