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Mambo (music) Mambo is a genre of Cuban dance music pioneered by the 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 danzón-mambo, wi ...

, a Cuban musical form * Mambo (dance), a dance corresponding to mambo music Mambo may also refer to:

Music

Mambo section In Afro-Caribbean music, mambo is the section of an arrangement in Danzón and related styles, which features instrumental improvisation. History The beginning of the evolution of this section from montuno is attributed to Machito and his Afro-Cub ...

, 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

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

Jeff Maluleke Jeff Maluleke (born 1977) is a South African musician of the M'nwanati people. Jeff was born to Dora and Johannes Maluleke in the town of Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga in 1977. In 2002, the Kora All-Africa Music Awards honoured him as the "Revelatio ...

*''Mambo'', album by

Remmy Ongala Ramazani "Remmy" Mtoro Ongala (10 February 1947 – 13 December 2010) was a Tanzanian guitarist and singer. Ongala was born in Kindu near the Tanzanian border, in what was the Belgian Congo at the time, and now is the Democratic Republic of the C ...

Songs

* "Mambo" (1938 song) by Orestes Lopez *"Mambo" by Leonard Bernstein from ''

West Side Story ''West Side Story'' is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Inspired by William Shakespeare's play ''Romeo and Juliet'', the story is set in the mid-1 ...

'' * "Mambo!" (Helena Paparizou song), 2005 *"Mambo", a 2021 song by

Steve Aoki Steven Hiroyuki Aoki (, ; born November 30, 1977), best known as Steve Aoki, is an American DJ, record producer, music programmer, and record executive.

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Film and television

* ''Mambo'' (film), a 1954 Italian American film *Mambo Duckman, a character from the television series '' Duckman'' *Moshe Mambo, a character from the movie

Money Monster ''Money Monster'' is a 2016 American crime thriller film directed by Jodie Foster, with a screenplay by Jamie Linden, Alan Di Fiore, and Jim Kouf from a story by Di Fiore and Kauf. The film stars George Clooney (who also co-produced), Julia Ro ...

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), an open source content management system *MAMbo, a nickname for the

Bologna Museum of Modern Art The Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna or MAMbo is a purpose-designed museum of modern and experimental art in Bologna, Italy. The , which displays a large collection of works by Giorgio Morandi, is temporarily housed in a part of it. History Now a ...

in Bologna, Italy *MAMBO, a nickname for the

Bogotá Museum of Modern Art The Bogotá Museum of Modern Art (MAMBO) is a modern art museum located in Bogotá, Colombia. It was designed by architect Rogelio Salmona. History The Museum was founded by Gloria Zea, who died 11 March 2019, aged 83. See also *Museum of Mode ...

in Bogotá, Colombia * Mambo Graphics, 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