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"Lambada" became a worldwide summer hit, selling over five million copies in 1989 [4] and was part of the Lambada dance craze.It reached No. 1 in several European countries, as well as No. 4 on both the UK Singles Chart and Irish Singles Chart, No. 5 on the Australia ARIA Singles Chart, and No. 46 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
"Llorando se fue" (English: They left in tears) is a Bolivian folk song recorded by Los Kjarkas in 1981 on the album Canto a la mujer de mi pueblo [3] and released as a B-side of the "Wa ya yay" single in 1982. [4] The song has been very popular in Latin America since the 1980s and has been covered several times.
In 1976, he launched a song entitled Lambada (Sambão), track number 6 of the LP No embalo of carimbó and sirimbó vol. 5. It is the first Brazilian recording of a song under the label of Lambada. Some support the version that the guitarist and composer Master Vieira, the inventor of the guitarrada, would also be the creator of the Lambada music.
David Giles, reviewer of Music Week, presented "Dançando Lambada" as a "Parisian re-working of a Brazilian tune that should do well at club level", while wondering whether the sound's novelty can be maintained after "Lambada". [1] To Lisa Tilston of Record Mirror, "this is as funky and Latinate and thoroughly good fun as "Lambada"". [2]
Loalwa Braz Vieira (3 June 1953 [citation needed] – 19 January 2017) was a Brazilian [1] singer, best known for providing the lead vocals for the French-Brazilian recording act Kaoma for their 1989 cover of the hit "Llorando se fue" (by Ulysses Hermosa, lead singer of the popular Bolivian folk group Los Kjarkas), later renamed as "Lambada". [1]
The duo first appeared in the video clip of "Lambada" by the French-Brazilian group Kaoma in 1989. Both Kaoma and Chico & Roberta had the same producer, Jean-Claude Bonaventure , and the duo's songs were composed by Kaoma's lead singer Loalwa Braz , with contributions by Daniel Darras, Alan Pype, Bonaventure, M. Nogueira, and Roberta and Chico ...
Lyrics, instruments, and even melodies often have connections to African culture and even influence culture and music in other countries today. It is strongly influenced by African rhythms. The most well known sub-genres of Afro-Brazilian musical genres are samba, marabaixo, maracatu, ijexá, coco, jongo, carimbó, lambada, maxixe, and maculelê.
Kaoma was a French-Brazilian band formed around 1989 by French producers Jean Georgakarakos and Olivier Lorsac to promote the song "Lambada". Loalwa Braz was hired to sing lead vocals, other musicians were Chyco Dru (bass), Jacky Arconte (guitar), Jean-Claude Bonaventure (keyboard), Michel Abihssira (drums and percussion) and Fania (backing vocals).