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a Cuban dance so contagious doctors should warn you before the first beat drops.
means A lively Cuban dance and the syncopated, brass-heavy style of music that drives it, popularized worldwide in the mid-20th century.
from From Cuban Spanish, where 'mambo' likely came from Haitian Creole or an Afro-Caribbean language — often linked to the Kongo languages of Central Africa, where related words touched on conversation, ritual, or a priestess (a 'mambo' is also a Vodou priestess in Haiti). The dance name is usually credited to Cuban musicians in the 1930s–40s who blended this African-rooted word with son and jazz; the precise path is debated, but the African ancestry is real, not invented.
- name origin
- From Kikongo, meaning conversation with the gods
- king
- Perez Prado crowned the mambo king in 1950s
- birthplace
- Born in Havana, perfected in New York ballrooms
- number five
- Lou Bega's 1999 hit named a dozen women
- dance dna
- Fused Cuban son with American jazz swing
palladium ballroom — new york venue on broadway where mambo became a major dance craze in the 1950s