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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 *

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

* Mambo section, a section in arrangements of some types of

Afro-Caribbean music Afro-Caribbean music is a broad term for music styles originating in the Caribbean from the African diaspora. These types of music usually have West African/Central African influence because of the presence and history of African people and their ...

, particularly danzón; the musical form of the same name developed from this section

Albums

* ''Mambo!'' (album), a 1954 album by Yma Sumac * ''Mambo'' (album), a 1991 album by Spanish music duo Azúcar Moreno *''Mambo'', album by Jeff Maluleke *''Mambo'', album by

Remmy Ongala Also known as 'The Doctor Ramazani "Remmy" Mtoro Ongala (10 February 1947 – 13 December 2010) was a Tanzanian guitarist and singer. Life Ongala was born in Kindu, in what was the Belgian Congo at the time, and now is the Democratic Republic of t ...

Songs

* "Mambo" (1938 song) by Orestes Lopez * "Mambo" (Henry Santos song), 2021 * "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 ...

'' *"Mambo", a 2021 song by

Steve Aoki Steven Hiroyuki Aoki ( , ; born November 30, 1977) is an American DJ and record producer. In 2012, Pollstar designated Aoki as the highest-grossing electronic dance music artist in North America from tours. In 2024, Gold House recognized him as ...

and

Willy William Willy Fauade William (born 27 June 1981) is a French DJ, record producer and singer famous for his club remixes and vocal collaborations with a number of dance music artists. He is most famous for his French hit " Ego" and his Latin hit " Mi Gent ...

Mambo No. 5 "Mambo No. 5" is an instrumental mambo and jazz dance song originally composed and recorded by Cuban musician Dámaso Pérez Prado in 1949 and released the next year. German singer Lou Bega sampled the original for a new song released under the s ...

", a jazz composition

Film and television

* Chuck Mambo, English professional wrestler * ''Mambo'' (film), a 1954 Italian American film *

Mambo V The following is a list of fictional characters from the Danish-Canadian animated television series '' Ninjago'' and its sequel, which were produced by The Lego Group. The series features a large ensemble cast of recurring characters. The list inc ...

, a character in ''Ninjago'' *Mambo Duckman, a character from the television series ''

Duckman ''Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man'', commonly known simply as ''Duckman'', is an American adult animated sitcom created and developed by Everett Peck, based on the characters he created in his 1990 one-shot comic book published by Dark Horse Com ...

'' *Moshe Mambo, a character from the movie

Money Monster ''Money Monster'' is a 2016 American crime thriller film directed by Jodie Foster, from a screenplay by Jamie Linden, Alan Di Fiore, and Jim Kouf. It stars George Clooney as financial television host Lee Gates and Julia Roberts as his produce ...

Millennium Mambo ''Millennium Mambo'' () is a 2001 Taiwanese romantic drama film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. The film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where Tu Duu-chih won Technical Grand Prize. Plot The main char ...

, a 2001 Taiwanese film

Other uses

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 *

Mambo (software) Mambo (formerly named Mambo Open Source or MOS) was a free software/open-source software, open source content management system (CMS) for creating and managing websites through a simple web interface. Its last release was in 2008, by which time all ...

, an open source content management system *

Mambo (title) ''Mambo'' is a Bantu title roughly equivalent to "king". It is most closely associated with the precolonial Shona states, such as the Rozvi and Mutapa empires. ''Mambo'' often also fulfilled religious duties as sacred kings. In the Maravi Empi ...

, a Bantu title equivalent to "king" *MAMbo, the

Bologna Museum of Modern Art The Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna or MAMbo is a purpose-designed modern and experimental art museum in Bologna, Italy — and which includes The , a collection of more than 250 works by noted painter, Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964). Histor ...

in Bologna, Italy *MAMBO, the

Bogotá Museum of Modern Art The Bogotá Museum of Modern Art (''Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá'', known as MAMBO) is a museum of modern art located in Bogotá, Colombia. It is one of the main cultural and artistic establishments in Colombia. History The museum opened to ...

in Bogotá, Colombia *

Mambo Graphics Mambo Graphics (also, 100% Mambo; and marketed as Mambo) is an Australian clothing brand specialises in swimwear, wetsuits, casual wear apparel and surfing accessories. Mambo was launched in 1984 by Australian entrepreneur and founder of Ph ...

, the company behind the Australian surf clothing brand Mambo *

Tecma Mambo The Tecma Mambo is a French high-wing, single-place, hang glider designed and produced by Tecma Sport of Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny, first produced in 1994. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ' ...

, a French hang glider design

Music

Albums

Songs

Film and television

Other uses

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