Biesenkamp has always maintained it was he who discovered Prado's music and created Bega's Latin-inspired image. Biesenkamp's story is he discovered a Prado CD while looking for songs to appear in a German romantic comedy and instantly new there was something special about the track. This, according to a website called Unicade, which is either a fan site or a platform run by Beisenkamp, was a "small story invented for the media".
When another collaborator, Zippy Davids, found an old recording of the original track and brought it to the studio, Bega immediately began making up new lyrics on the spot. The resulting track became Bega's Mambo No. The lyrics were inspired by Bega's lothario youth, he has said. His favourite "pretty nice lady"? Enjoyed it a lot. Thank you sidney sopoptour australia 90s mambo stage. Regardless of who discovered the original Prado track, everyone is in agreement the song was based on a riff from the first Mambo No.
It was for that reason the song retained the same name as the original, for one thing. But secondly, anyone who has listened to both versions can recognise that shared blaring, sensual brass section underpinning both tracks. The Cuban singer's estate, via record company Peermusic, were soon embroiled in a copyright trial with Bega and his producers. The case was nuanced: Bega had written an entirely new song, with fresh lyrics.
Bega's team argued that as they had only sampled one of Prado's riffs, they were actually the true creators and wanted sole ownership over all the track's profits. But the actual melody of the track leaned heavily on that second riff lifted from Prado's original song.
And also, the two tracks shared a name. The court case was complicated and spanned a gruelling seven-year trial period. The case was only resolved when the Federal Court of Justice of Germany ruled that as Bega had reached out to Peermusic and Prado for a royalty agreement, the copyright for the riff belonged to Prado. But given Bega's new lyrics, the Mambo No. This was by no means the end of Bega's woes, though.
The singer's relationship with his one-time manager and reported producer Biesenkamp was in pieces. All rights reserved. Bega is kidding, of course. The year-old is not only alive, but is still issuing albums. Bega says of releasing an 80's covers album, "I'm a time traveler when it comes to music -- I started with the 50s music, the mambo music, and I wanted to add a new part into the time-traveling show.
Bega has been playing four shows a week since the promotional cycle for "A Little Bit of 80's" began. Bega and says that he's recently played his mambo music and 80's covers on three continents, flying out of Berlin to visit Russia, France, Italy, parts of Asia and South America. Of course, North America is not included in that list. To most U. Born and raised in Germany, Bega traveled to Miami as an year-old and became fascinated with mambo music, soaking in the side steps, brass, upright bass and vibrant percussion.
He returned to Germany and began developing a contemporary take on the 50's music, as well as a slick-suited, pencil-mustachioed persona. The next day, you fly… from Paris to New York City, then from New York to London, so you can have breakfast twice a day on two different continents. All these things you have to imagine, for a year-old, were impressionable. From to , Bega toured the world behind "Mambo No.
The song is a well-earned karaoke staple, a wedding dance floor energizer, arguably the most notable innovation on how to count to five since the abacus. View Iframe URL. A little bit of Mary all night long. It has a cuteness about it. But what can he do? Bega is not bitter, at least not in an interview setting.
Before he took on a mambo-fied stage name, Lou Bega was David Lubega, son of a Ugandan father and Sicilian mother raised mostly in Munich. It was a one-song project that quickly faded away. Prado is regarded as a pioneer in the mambo wave that swept the United States in the early s.
After one minute, I was sure it was a hit.
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