• Capital: € eight million
• Age:       45
• Born:     April thirteen, 1975
• Country of origin:   Germany
• Source of wealth:  Singer
• Last updated:    2023

Short introduction

Lou Bega (actual call David Lubega; born on April thirteen, 1975 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany) is a musician from Germany of Ugandan-Italian origin. Well regarded for the tune Mambo No. 5, a remake of Perez Prado`s instrumental paintings composed in 1949. Lou Bega brought his personal lyrics to the song.

Early life

Lou Bega`s mom changed into born in Calabria (southern Italy) and her father got here to Germany from Uganda in 1972 to look at biology on the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Until he changed into six, David spent maximum of his time in Italy together along with his mom. Then they moved completely to Munich, in which the boy attended a German number one school. At 15, he lived in Miami for one and a 1/2 of years and spent six months in Uganda. He presently lives in Berlin.

Career

Lou Bega began out his musical profession as a rapper. At the age of thirteen, he based a hip-hop institution with  pals and launched a CD  years later. During her live in Miami, Bega determined Latin American song. When he lower back to Germany, nearby manufacturers Goar Biesenkamp (higher called Goar B) and Achim Kleist (Syndicate Musicproduction) diagnosed his talent. Bega signed a settlement with the report employer Lautstark.

His first unmarried “Mambo No. 5 “without delay have become famous everywhere in the international and took first region withinside the charts of maximum European countries, along with Germany, England and France, and 0.33 region withinside the USA. In France, the unmarried took first region for 20 weeks, which remains an unbeatable report.

On July 19, 1999 Lou Bega launched the album A Little Bit of Mambo. He took third region withinside the USA, however in Germany, Austria, Canada, Finland, Hungary, Portugal, Switzerland and the Middle East he took 1st region withinside the charts. The subsequent unmarried, “I Got a Girl”, reached the pinnacle ten in numerous European countries, along with France, Finland and Belgium.

Lou Begi`s 2nd studio album, Ladies and Gentlemen, changed into launched on May 28, 2001. Neither the album itself nor its character songs obtained the economic achievement that A Little Bit of Mambo had. The new album recorded the tune “Baby Keep Smiling”, carried out with the aid of using a duet with Compai Segundo, a member of the Buena Vista Social Club venture (the equal tune sounded with out him at the A Little Bit of Mambo album). Lou Bega additionally recorded a cowl model of the well-known tune “Just a Gigolo / I Ain`t Got Nobody” at the CD Ladies and Gentlemen.

Lou Bega is likewise a person withinside the pc video games Tropico and Walt Disney`s The Jungle Book Rhythm n `Groove. Lou Bega composed the tune for the French lively collection Marsupilami. In spring 2010 Lou Bega launched the album Free Again.

In 2019, in honor of the twentieth anniversary of his innovative paintings, Lou posted a determination to Scatman John beneathneath the call “Scatman & Hatman”, which embodies the unrealized dream of co-recording. The song changed into produced with the aid of using Roland Spremberg (who labored with a-ha, Ville Valo, Natalia Avelon).

Career highlights

Lou Bega recorded the identify tune and the song video for the pc recreation The Jungle Book with the aid of using the Walt Disney Company.

The Ladies and Gentlemen`s album carries the duet Baby Keep Smiling, which Lou Bega recorded with the Cuban artist Compay Segundo from the Buena Vista Social Club.

In May 2010 the album Free Again changed into launched, from which the singles Boyfriend and Sweet Like Cola have been launched. In the German charts, they have been capable of occupy locations seventy one and 37. A Little Bit of 80`s accompanied in 2013, recording famous hits which include Culture Club, Sade Adu, KC and the Sunshine Band.

Bega has additionally been operating as a composer for the German dance venture Groove Coverage considering the fact that 2002. So some distance he has participated in 13 songs withinside the institution. His maximum a success song for Groove changed into the tune God Is a Girl from 2002. To date, the institution has bought greater than thirteen million data worldwide.

His severa concert events consist of a excursion of the us with Cher, with Bega acting as a unique guest, appearances at the Indian subcontinent and in South America. Bega has additionally carried out again and again for princes, global corporations and company activities. The Moroccan king booked him for his birthday. Lou Bega has regarded on many tv indicates and unique activities withinside the United States, along with Tonight, Ally McBeal, Motown Live, Jenny Jones and Queen Latifa`s Show. Bet that ..?

Bega lives in his residence in Berlin-Zehlendorf. He is an evangelical Christian.

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