MamboLosco | |
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| Birth name | William Miller Hickman III |
| Born | 16 August 1990 Vicenza, Italy |
| Genres | Hip hop, Reggaeton, Trap |
| Occupation | Rapper |
| Years active | 2017–present |
| Labels | Virgin Records, Universal, |
William Miller Hickman III (born 16 August 1990), known professionally as MamboLosco, is an Italian rapper of American descent.
MamboLosco was born in 1991 to an American military father and an Italian mother from Brindisi [1] . He wrote his first song at the age of thirteen, but began his actual musical career in 2017, founding an act named Sugo Gang in Vicenza [2] . In the same year, he achieved fame with the release of the single Guarda come flexo [3] .
In 2018, MamboLosco featured as a guest artist on the track Expensive, from the album Trap Lovers by Dark Polo Gang, thus giving him a wider audience [4] . Later in the year he published Guarda come flexo 2 [5] .
In 2019, the rapper released the singles Bingo [6] , then Arcobaleno [7] , before releasing his first studio album entitled Arte on September 13 [8] . The album reached number 3 on the Italian Top Albums chart the week following the project's release. [9] . In November 2020, the album was certified gold [10] , and Twerk, single in collaboration with Boro Boro from this project, was certified platinum single [11] .
On July 3, 2020, MamboLosco and Boro Boro released the collaborative album Caldo, [12] [13] , which reached the 4th place in the Top National Albums the week of its release [14] . The following month, the music video for "Fallo" was released, the project's major single. [15] .