LAMBADA - Brazilian Dance

The lambada dance style is based on the movements of the karimbo dance of the Amazonian Indians. Also among the ancestors of lambada are such dances as mashishi and forro. The birthplace of Lambada is called the Brazilian city of Porto Seguro. The name lambada comes from Portuguese. On Brazilian radio stations, it was simply called popular dance tunes, «hits». Over time, the name «lambada» supplanted the name «karimbo», and the dance underwent some changes. In the late 1980s, French producer Olivier Lamothe visited Porto Segura, attended a local carnival and got the idea to bring dance to Europe. In France, he formed the pop group Kaoma, consisting of black immigrants from South America. In 1989, Kaoma recorded the song «Lambada». The lyrics and music were borrowed from the song «Llorando se fue» by the Bolivian band Los Kjarkas, which even led to a lawsuit against Kaoma, as a result of which the band Kaoma was forced to compensate Los Kjarkas. «Lambada» became a hit on both sides of the ocean, and its melody is still mostly associated with the concept of lambada. The dance instantly became extremely popular, including revived its popularity in Brazil. There is a myth about the alleged ban on lambada, because of which the dance was not performed in Brazil before the appearance of the hit Kaoma. According to this theory, lambada was banned because of obscene sexual movements. In fact, the mashishi dance close to lambada was banned, at the end of the XIX - beginning of the...