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Olodum is a bloco-afro from Salvador's carnival, in Bahia, Brazil. ... (in English, Olodum's Music and Arts Festival). Notable deaths
Olorun (Yoruba alphabet: Ọlọrun) (Ede language: ɔlɔrun) is the ruler of (or in) the Heavens creator of the Yoruba.The Supreme Deity or Supreme Being in the Yoruba pantheon, Olorun is also called Olodumare (Yoruba alphabet: Olódùmarè), Eledumare and Eleduwa/Eledua.
The group pioneered the type of carnival group known as the bloco afro, featuring themes from global black cultures and history, and celebrating the aesthetic beauty of black people. All other Afro-Brazilian blocos borrow elements originally created by Ilê Aiyê, including such groups founded shortly afterwards, such as Olodum and Malê Debalê.
Olodum had combined the traditional samba with sounds from a number of other Caribbean music genres, including: merengue, salsa, and reggae. The toques, or "drumming patterns", that categorized the samba-reggae beat was composed of "a pattern in which the surdo bass drums divided themselves into four or five interlocking parts.
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The cultural music group Olodum from the city of Salvador, with whom Jackson collaborated. Producing the first music video in February 1996 for "They Don't Care About Us" proved to be a difficult task for Jackson. [25] State authorities unsuccessfully tried to ban Jackson filming in Salvador and in Rio de Janeiro. Officials in the state of Rio ...
Simon performed the song, accompanied by Olodum and Neguinho do Samba, on Saturday Night Live on November 17, 1990. [1] The song is the namesake for the 2014 film Obvious Child; it appears in a scene in which two characters drunkenly dance together. [20] Director Gillian Robespierre titled the film with hope that its meaning would be ambiguous ...