Mambo most often refers to:
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Mambo (music)
Mambo is a genre of Cuban dance music pioneered by the Charanga (Cuba), charanga Arcaño y sus Maravillas in the late 1930s and later popularized in the big band style by Pérez Prado. It originated as a syncopated form of the danzón, known as d ...
, a Cuban musical form
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Mambo (dance)
Mambo is a Latin dance of Cuba which was developed in the 1940s when the Mambo (music), music genre of the same name became popular throughout Latin America. The original ballroom dance which emerged in Cuba and Mexico was related to the danzó ...
, a dance corresponding to mambo music
Mambo may also refer to:
Music
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Mambo section, a section in arrangements of some types of
Afro-Caribbean music, particularly danzón; the musical form of the same name developed from this section
Albums
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''Mambo!'' (album), a 1954 album by Yma Sumac
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''Mambo'' (album), a 1991 album by Spanish music duo Azúcar Moreno
*''Mambo'', album by
Jeff Maluleke
*''Mambo'', album by
Remmy Ongala
Songs
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"Mambo" (1938 song) by Orestes Lopez
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"Mambo" (Henry Santos song), 2021
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"Mambo!" (Helena Paparizou song), 2005
*"Mambo" by Leonard Bernstein from ''
West Side Story
''West Side Story'' is a Musical theatre, musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a Book (musical theatre), book by Arthur Laurents.
Inspired by William Shakespeare's play ''Romeo an ...
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*"Mambo", a 2021 song by
Steve Aoki and
Willy William
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Mambo No. 5", a jazz composition
Film and television
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Chuck Mambo, English professional wrestler
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''Mambo'' (film), a 1954 Italian American film
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Mambo V, a character in ''Ninjago''
*Mambo Duckman, a character from the television series ''
Duckman''
*Moshe Mambo, a character from the movie
Money Monster
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Millennium Mambo, a 2001 Taiwanese film
Other uses
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Mambo (Vodou)
A ''manbo'' (also written as ''mambo'') is a priestess (as opposed to a '' oungan'', a male priest) in the Haitian Vodou religion. Haitian Vodou's conceptions of priesthood stem from the religious traditions of enslaved people from Dahomey, ...
, a Haitian Vodou priestess
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Mambo (software), an open source content management system
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Mambo (title), a Bantu title equivalent to "king"
*MAMbo, the
Bologna Museum of Modern Art in Bologna, Italy
*MAMBO, the
Bogotá Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá, Colombia
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Mambo Graphics, the company behind the Australian surf clothing brand Mambo
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Tecma Mambo, a French hang glider design
See also
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Mumbo (disambiguation)
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