53 million sold CDs are an incredible aim on present days which Lou Bega could achieve within the last years.

6 million singles, 7 million albums and 40 million compilations, additionally songs in movies and TV series as well as several advertising spots. The whole world knows Lou Bega and he is more than a musical ambassador: his mother comes from Southern Italy, his father from Uganda. Multi-cultural – the connection of cultures and generations, the spreading of optimism and zest for life – this is what Lou Bega gives to his fans in his natural and friendly way. Fun, vitality and passion!

And you can experience this fun, vitality and passion during Lou Bega's show which he is touring with all around the world.

His shows are as versatile as his hits:

With his album "A Little Bit of 80s" which was released in 2013/2014 Lou Bega succeed modifying the greatest hits of the 80s like "Give It Up", "Come On Eileen", "Sunshine Reggae", "Smooth Operator" or "Physical" into the typical Lou Bega style and presenting in a fantastic stage show.Lou Bega performed these songs, partly as medleys, in the biggest TV shows all around the world.

During the previous years the artist released e.g. "Beautiful World – A Little Collection of Lou Bega's Best" in 2013 with the greatest hits of his amazing career. On "Beautiful World" fans and media could also find "Happy Feeling", a brand-new song which Lou Bega produced together with the producers of "Caro Emerald" (A Night Like this).

2010 Lou Bega's album "Free Again" was released which includes 2 further hit singles: "Boyfriend" and "Sweet like Cola".

The video of “Boyfriend” was recorded in Berlin in the old Film Noir style: 1940's movie look, smoky, black-and-white, grainy. "Boyfriend" entered the German single charts directly and Lou Bega performed the song in several TV shows.At the same time there was a huge TV campaign for this new single at the German TV stations N-TV and VOX

“Sweet like Cola” is a catchy summer tune which spreads good mood and was released as second single from album "Free Again". The song stayed in German charts for weeks, was licenced world-wide and got several million visits at YouTube in no time at all.In Belgium "Sweet like Cola" rose up to #12 of the charts and even reached #2 on the Philippines!

In 1999 the Mambo fever which broke out in Germany arrived in more than 20 countries world-wide. Lou Bega was newcomer of the year and his “Mambo No.5” – the world hit par excellence – infected the whole globe! With his debut album “A Little Bit of Mambo” Lou Bega entered the top positions of the charts world-wide. In USA the successful album reaches #3 of the Billboard album charts and was sold more than 3.5 million times! All in all “A Little Bit of Mambo” is sold more than 7 million times world-wide. Also his second single ignited: "I Got a Girl" reached the Top20 of the charts in 5 countries.

Awards from all over the world bombard the down-to-earth artist. He received the German music award ECHO in 2 categories and was nominated even five times. He was also nominated for the GRAMMY, in Cannes he received the reputable WORLD MUSIC AWARD. Further awards like the BLOCKBUSTER ENTERTAINMENT AWARD in Los Angeles/USA, FESTIVAL BAR in Verona/Italy, the AMADEUS AWARD in Vienna/Austria as well as the BUNTE NEW FACE AWARD in Berlin/Germany and many more followed.

From 1999 till today Lou Bega tours together with his band and his exotic female dancers all over the world. Highlights were the USA tour with CHER in 22 cities and also mega live shows in South America, India, Las Vegas, Tokyo, Moscow, Hong Kong and the Arab Emirates. The more than 200 European concerts inspired more than 3 million visitors. International companies, princes and royal houses – beneath the King of Morocco – booked Lou Bega and his live show for private or corporate events.

He has been guest in the biggest TV shows and specials world-wide like JAY LENO, ALLY MCBEAL, MOTOWN LIVE, JENNY JONES, QUEEN LATIFAH, ACCESS HOLLYWOOD – just to mention some of them. In the more than 20-year-old history of one of Europe's biggest TV show WETTEN, DASS…? Lou Bega is the only artist ever who performed one song twice in the show in front of a frenetic audience. Even his visit of the grave of the Mexican national hero Perez Prado is reported on the 8 o'clock evening news of Mexico's No.1 TV station and moved millions of Mexicans to tears.

WALT DISNEY, the biggest entertainment company world-wide, counts on Lou Bega, too, and released “Jungle Book” as computer game together with the artist. He recorded the theme song here and performs in the video clip of the game. Lou Bega is also common with presentations and so he presented the „American Music Awards“, „Grammy Awards“, „Billboard Radio Awards“ and the „Love Parade“ in Berlin/Germany.

Lou Bega, who writes his song texts and composes all his songs himself, also writes songs for other artists and is successful here as well. Several Top10 hits for other artists are his own.

Like no other Lou has been able to form his own style of music by blending elements of the 40s and 50s era with up to date grooves and sounds.

On his album “A Little Bit of 80s“ Lou Bega performs the greatest hits from the 80s in his typical Lou Bega style!

During Lou Bega's show “A Little Bit of 80s” he performs hits like “Give It Up”, “Come On Eileen”, “Sunshine Reggae”, “Gimme Hope Jo'Anna”, “Smooth Operator” and many more.

“Give It Up“ – #1 hit! “The song is perfect for my live show”, Lou Bega says.

“Smooth Operator” – o n e o f t h e m o s t successful songs of Sade! This evergreen s u i t s L o u B e g a ' s smooth voice per-fectly and is a high-light every time he performs it with his band.

“Physical“- 10 weeks on #1 of US charts!

The song “Mambo No.5” entered #1 of the charts in more than 21 countries all over the world, was sold more than 6 million times and the related album even 7 million times!

With “I Got A Girl“ Lou Bega reached another hit in the 90s which entered the charts world-wide and even reached Top20 in 5 countries.

Lou Bega is one of the most successful artists of this decade and “Mambo No.5” the hit of the 90s.

2010 & 2011 Lou Bega was the acclaimed special guest at “Holiday on Ice” show “Tropicana” in Germany.

Copyrights „HOLIDAY ON ICE“

“King of Mambo

brilliants on ice”

“Lou Bega dances the Blade-Mambo”

“Lou Bega hot on ice”

“King of Mambo crowns ice show”

“Hot rhythms

and great show”

“Lou Bega put a spell on holidays on ice”

“”Holiday on Ice” presents Lou Bega as ideal

special guest for their show “Tropicana””

“Caribbean sounds on ice”

“Hot Mambo

on ice”

“Show of superlatives”

“Lou Bega heats

up pre-sales”

“Sweet Like Cola“ stayed in charts for several weeks, was licensed in more than 30 countries all over the world and got several million visits at YouTube in no time at all!

In Belgium the song entered #12 of the charts and even #2 at Philippines.

Furthermore the song was released on many compilations world-wide.

„Sweet Like Cola“

- a further mega hit of Lou Bega.

RELEASES & SHOWS AWARDS

6 million sold singles

7 million sold albums

40 million sold compilations

# 1 of the charts with „Mambo No. 5”in over 21 countries

Tripple Platin in Americafor the album „A little bit of Mambo“Diamond-State in France for 1 million sold albums

World wide Live shows, e.g. Las Vegas, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo,India, Royal Palace of Morocco, Tokio, Hongkong, Arab Emirates, Tunisia, Turkey, Russia, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Poland, Netherlands, Shanghai, Miami and many more

Hit singles: “Mambo No.5“, “I Got a Girl“, “Sweet like Cola”, “Mambo Mambo”, “Tricky Tricky”, “Boyfriend”, “Give It Up”, “Gentleman”

Theme song cooperation for Walt Disney (Jungle Book Computer Game)

World Music Award

Grammy Nomination

2 * German music price ECHO

Blockbuster Entertainment Award

NRJ Music Award

Amadeus Award

STORY OF SUCCESS

COUNTRY HIGHEST WEEKS IN AWARDS

CHART- CHARTS

POSITION

CANADA 1 23 4 x PLATINUM / GOLD

SWITZERLAND 1 28 PLATINUM

MIDDLE EAST 1 23 PLATINUM

PORTUGAL 1 20 GOLD

HUNGARY 1 18 GOLD

AUSTRIA 1 16 GOLD

FINLAND 1 22 GOLD

PHILIPPINES 2 26 2 x PLATINUM

CZECH REPUBLIC 2 23 GOLD

USA 3 23 3 x PLATINUM

GERMANY 3 18 GOLD

BRAZIL 3 17 GOLD

INDIA 3 20 PLATINUM

MEXICO 4 21 PLATINUM / GOLD

INDONESIA 4 21 PLATINUM

CHILE 4 20 PLATINUM

DENMARK 4 17 GOLD

TAIWAN 4 16 GOLD

NORWAY 4 14 GOLD

THAILAND 5 18 GOLD

GREECE 6 24 GOLD

VENEZUELA 7 18 GOLD

SPAIN 8 24 PLATINUM

FRANCE 9 21 PLATINUM

SINGAPORE 9 14 GOLD

MALAYSIA 10 13 GOLD

ITALY 11 13 PLATINUM

NETHERLANDS 17 14

SOUTH AFRICA 18 9 GOLD

AUSTRALIA 19 18 GOLD

BELGIUM 19 16 GOLD

SWEDEN 20 11

NEW ZEALAND 28 9 GOLD

ENGLAND 50 2

COUNTRY HIGHEST WEEKS IN AWARDS

CHART- CHARTS

POSITION

AUSTRALIA 1 17 4 x PLATINUM

GERMANY 1 28 3 x PLATINUM

BELGIUM 1 32 3 x PLATINUM

NEW ZEALAND 1 16 3 x PLATINUM

AUSTRIA 1 25 2 x PLATINUM

SWITZERLAND 1 39 2 x PLATINUM

NORWAY 1 33 2 x PLATINUM

FRANCE 1 27 2 x PLATINUM

IRELAND 1 17 2 x PLATINUM

NETHERLANDS 1 25 PLATINUM

SWEDEN 1 23 PLATINUM

DENMARK 1 21 PLATINUM

ENGLAND 1 19 PLATINUM

MEXICO 1 20 PLATINUM

SOUTH AFRICA 1 17 PLATINUM

SPAIN 1 19 GOLD

GREECE 1 35 GOLD

FINLAND 1 24 GOLD

ITALY 2 27 PLATINUM

JAPAN 5 4

CANADA 1 27 VIA IMPORT

USA 3 20 FASTEST ENTRY EVER AT NO.1 IN RADIO CHARTS

FURTHER HIT SINGLES:“I Got a Girl“, “Sweet like Cola”,

“Mambo Mambo”, “Tricky Tricky”,

“Boyfriend”, “Give It Up”, “Gentleman”

Lou Bega Management:AME.Media GmbHSchloss Zweibrüggen 4052531 Übach-PalenbergPhone: 0049 – (0) 2451 – 90 94 87Fax: 0049 – (0) 2451 – 90 94 89E-Mail: contact@ame-media.dewww.AME-Media.de

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