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1. mambo
Wikipedia definition
2. Mambo (dance)Mambo is a Latin dance of Cuba. Mambo music was invented during the 1930s in Havana by Cachao and made popular by Perez Prado and Benny Moré. Mambo music was influenced by the Jazz musicians that the Italian-American gangsters. In the late 1940s, Perez Prado came up with the dance for the mambo music and became the first person to market his music as "mambo". After Havana, Prado moved his music to Mexico, where his music and the dance was adopted.
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