The album failed to experience success similar to its predecessor in Bega's native market or internationally.

īega's second studio album Ladies and Gentlemen was released on. In France, Bega did well also with his single 'Mambo Mambo', which reached No. 11 on the French charts. The third single, 'Tricky, Tricky', achieved No. 18 on the Canadian charts and No. 74 on the U.S. The second single, 'I Got a Girl' charted well, entering the Top 10 in some European countries, including France, Finland and Belgium. While it charted moderately in the UK, peaking at only No. 50, it reached No. 1 in Austria, Canada, Finland, Hungary, and Switzerland. 3 both in Bega's native Germany and the U.S. On 19 July 1999, Bega released his debut album A Little Bit of Mambo, which peaked at No. It was also used by the British television broadcaster Channel 4 for their coverage of test match cricket between 19. In France, 'Mambo No. 5' spent twenty weeks at No. 1 in most European countries, including Germany, UK, France, and No. His first single 'Mambo No. 5' became a world wide hit in 1999, charting at No. Bega signed a recording contract to the label Lautstark. 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'. While living in Miami, he discovered Latin music. It would be two years before Bega and his friends' first CD would be released in 1990. At the age of 13, he founded a hip hop group with two other boys. Career īega started his musical career as a rapper. Bega also lived in Uganda for six months. As a teenager, he traveled to Miami, Florida, where he found the inspiration for his hit single 'Mambo No. 5'. Then they lived permanently in Munich, where Bega attended German primary school. Until age six, Bega spent most of his time with his mother Nicole in Italy. His father Charles went to West Germany in 1972 to study biology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.īega was born on 13 April 1975 in Munich, Bavaria to a Sicilian mother and a Ugandan father.You should also add the template to the talk page.A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation.If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality.Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 9,915 articles in the main category, and specifying |topic= will aid in categorization.Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.View a machine-translated version of the German article.

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