This year, King Mango gets Chongalicious... On Tuesday, meet the next generation of King Mango heads: Laura Di Lorenzo and Mimi Davila, the "Chongalicious Girls." The Miami Herald Posted on Tue, Nov. 20, 2007 BY DAVID SMILEY dsmiley@MiamiHerald.com

The official season of Miami's zany, always hilarious and borderline-offensive parody of life and politics begins Tuesday in Coconut Grove, and a few local celebrities want to make sure the 26th King Mango Strut parade will be memorable. Mimi Davila and Laura Di Lorenzo, the "Chongalicious Girls" from Aventura who became local celebrities following their spoof of the song Fergalicious, will be grand marshals of the parade this year, joining past Mango marshals like Janet Reno and the ashes of the late-super strutter Wayne Brehm. "I feel like we're perfect to lead the parade of crazies," said Mimi, 17. The high school seniors' YouTube.com video Chongalicious has attracted 1.7 million views over seven months and last May was the most requested song on WPOW-FM (96.5). For those who don't know what a chonga is: Urbandictionary.com, an online slang compendium, defines "chonga" as "a girl of Hispanic origin, usually between the ages of 12 and 19, but sometimes as young as 8. Primarily found in Miami (most famously, in Hialeah), . . . She wears ridiculously large hoop earrings, large enough to be bracelets, which are usually gold and have their name written in them, and diamond studs high up on her ears." Expect the girls to be made up with a Sharpie lip-liner and in full chonga gear for the Dec. 30 parade in downtown Coconut Grove and don't rule out a compilation with old-school strutters, the girls say. A.J. Nichols, a 20-year-strutter and the star of last year's Telly Award-winning video Chubby Back -- a spoof of Justin Timberlake's Sexy Back -- thinks the Chongalicious Girls can bring some excitement to the parade. "It's my hope that it will invigorate the strutters of tomorrow," he said. Nichols also noted that King Mango humorists have just recently taken to posting parade skits and clips to the Internet, a medium where the girls have shown some savvy. Old strutters may need to take a few notes, he said. "The time of the chonga is now," Nichols said. Still, there is a bit of an age barrier that needs to be crossed. "I think my mom was more excited than I was when I told her" about being grand marshal, Mimi said. And the girls find the idea that Nichols, who is more than twice their age, is changing lyrics to pop songs and posting videos on the Internet is -- appropriately -- funny. "I thought it was funny that other people do the same kind of stuff we do, especially older people," said Di Lorenzo, 18. The chonga girls are a perfect fit for King Mango, said event organizer Antoinette Baldwin. "They're mango heads and they didn't even know it," Baldwin said. The Chongalicious Girls will be on-hand for the Mango Strut kickoff meeting Tuesday at Al Fresco Ristorante, 3138 Commodore Plaza. This year, Baldwin said, King Mango is taking meetings on the road. Instead of always meeting at Tobacco Road like last year, strutters will now visit four locations around Miami. "We're spreading the gospel of the strut," Baldwin said. "We're going on a revival tour."