Mambo #5 Magic | Lou Bega Story Shares How He Created One of the World’s Most Listened to Pop Music Hits of All-Time
Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS
Clay Clark
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Lou Bega shares how he crafted one of the world’s most listened to pop songs of all-time and how to make money as a musician on the planet Earth.
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, on today's show we discuss the magic of Mambo No. 5. |
| 0:09.2 | Today's guest, Lou Vega, shares with us how he created one of the world's most listened |
| 0:13.8 | to pop songs, which currently has 247 million views on YouTube. |
| 0:21.2 | Ladies and gentlemen, without any further ado, this is Mambo No. 5's creator, Lou Vega. |
| 0:27.2 | Some shows don't need a celebrity narrator to introduce the show, but this show dies. |
| 0:45.2 | Two men, eight kids co-created by two different women, 13 multi-million dollar businesses, ladies |
| 0:54.2 | and gentlemen, welcome to the Thrive Time Show. |
| 0:58.2 | Two, one, here we go! |
| 1:01.2 | We started from the bottom of the |
| 1:16.7 | Ladies and gentlemen, on today's show, we have a blast from the past. |
| 1:21.1 | A guy who I have played his music over a thousand times at wedding receptions while running |
| 1:27.2 | my company DJConnection.com before I sold it. |
| 1:30.6 | Ladies and gentlemen, the man who wrote Mambo No. 5, Lou Vega, welcome on to the Thrive |
| 1:34.6 | Time Show. |
| 1:35.6 | How are you? |
| 1:36.6 | Ladies and gentlemen, I am so good, I'm so good and thank you for having me and I am the |
| 1:44.5 | best man, the wedding man, that's really always there and two people are there to be bound |
| 1:52.6 | by a covenant which we call marriage, right? |
| 1:55.5 | I am there with my Mambo, definitely all over the world, it makes me so proud it's the |
| 2:01.5 | wrong word, it makes me happy. |
| 2:03.6 | Let me ask you this, my friend, where do you live these days, where do you call home? |
| 2:09.5 | Oh man, home is really where my hat is at and I'm traveling a lot, but home these days |
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