Area dancers Sunday afternoon were dancing to the Cuban beat of the mambo at the Joplin Square Dance Center. Instructor Mary Castleberry, of Joplin, said the club wanted to expand the range of dances ...

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 ...

Off Bega’s debut album, A Little Bit of Mambo, the song topped the charts across Europe and reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold 3.3 million copies in the U.S., and was nominated for a ...