The Clinton-Lewinsky scandal was all over the news in 1998. Billboard reports “Mambo No. 5” reached the peak of its popularity in 1999. Someone called “Monica” is mentioned in the chorus of the song.

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 documenting a series of ...

Look, writing can be a lonely, isolating process, but that’s no excuse to torture your loved ones while you’re at it. If anyone should innately understand this it’s Stephen King, who wrote Misery ...

Lou Bega tells Billboard that, thus far this year, he has not spent much time reflecting on the 20th anniversary of "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of…)," which became an international smash in 1999 and… ...

Ebbsfleet United found themselves going viral earlier in the week -- not for something they'd done but for something they hadn't. Indeed, the National League side were the talk of social media after ...

 This week we listen to some Afro-Cuban mambo from its beginnings in the 1940’s, through its high point in the 1960’s, to the present day. Like the words bongo and… Next we hear Pérez Prado’s biggest ...