The history of Lambada

LAMBADA, as a musical rhythm, is a fusion of carimbó and merengue, and as a dance, it is a new type of dance that combines elements of forró, samba, merengue and Maxixe (Maxixe is a 19th century Brazilian dance that was very successful in Europe). (The Maxixe is a Brazilian dance from the 19th century that had great success in Europe.)

The Lombarda is sexy, yes, but it's for all ages and all genders, and it's not as vulgar as many of the worse Hollywood movies have "misled" us into believing. Lombarda is very elegant and fast paced, and we think that if you don't immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the stage and go through the motions smoothly, but just have to dance quickly on the dance floor, the last thing on your mind will be sex. Lombarda originated in the Amazon region, and then BAHIANS began to develop step by step to the present day.

It's an interesting story, because it was one of many at the time. It's harder to get a similar version because everyone seems to have dropped out of the history and sought their own direction

It's great that I danced in Brazil before the emergence of the so-called Lombarda melody in the country, so I was able to have the opportunity to accompany the development of this melody in the Brazilian production and spread it to other countries.

I have been working on this subject in areas such as the para (the second largest state in the north of Brazil, which is close to the Caribbean and has been influenced by Caribbean culture in terms of food, dance, etc.) and on the northeast coast of Brazil, ending up in the state of Bahia.

So I am happy to offer you the stories of my visit to the history of Lombardy and to tell them to you Since Brazil became a Portuguese colony (probably between 1500 and 1822 A.D.) in the north of Brazil there has been a very common dance called Carimbó, a form of dance which seems to be very laid back and loose. In the Carimbo the woman tries to encircle the man with her skirts by twirling herself around, and the music accompanying the dance is usually wooden drums made from tree trunks, which are thinned by fire.

The dances and the music itself have changed a lot over time, and naturally Lombarda has been heavily influenced by Caribbean music due to its geographic proximity to the Caribbean Sea. Even today you can hear this melody on the radio in the Caribbean (in states such as Amapá in northern Brazil), and this rhythm has naturally given rise to new rhythms such as the Sirimbó, which has always changed the style of carimbó dance movements.

The origin of the name Lombarda and the founder of Lombarda

After some time, a local radio station in Belém (the capital city of Pará) began to call this new type of music "Shocking New Rhythms" and "Lombard Rhythms" (while Lombard Rhythms). "(The word lombarda in the local language means a strong blow, or powerful) and in the end the name lombarda had a strong appeal and began to be combined with this altered form of dance from the old Carimbó.

Carimbó began at one time to be danced in pairs, with a two-beat rhythm, and many times the dance was very similar to the merengue, but with a lot of twirling, and I danced to similar music in 1093, in Belém and Macapá (the capital city of the state of Amapá). I bought some records with a gentleman named Pinduca, a man who is a very famous singer in northern Brazil and who is convinced that he is the father of Lombarda, but it seems that this is not recognized by everyone.

The fusion of metal and electronic music in the Caribbean changed the style and form of Carimbó once again, and it began to be popularized throughout the northeast of Brazil (which is a famous tourist destination), and this new Carimbó dance eventually became known as Lombada. -Lombarda's first glory days

Lombarda was able to sweep the Brazilian coast as far as Bahia (the old capital of Brazil) and began to receive influences from elements of the Forró dance. (Forró is another traditional Brazilian rhythmic dance) and eventually became a 4-beat dance form, which, we can be sure, is different from the previous carimbó.

As a dance movement, the legs of the Lombarda are bent in an arch and the pace is from one side to the other, never backwards and forwards. In those days, people danced in long skirts and the two were very closely intertwined. To this day in some areas such as Lambar (a nightclub in Sao Paulo) the style of women in long skirts and men in pants is still used as a required form of outdoor dancing.

In recent years the Carnival in Bahia has become so popular that every summer a new form of dance is created, and in the off-season hours of tourism, and the following summer a new rhythmic form emerges, in the years before the Lombarda we used friocote and TI-TI-TI instruments in many of the forms of dance, but they seem to have disappeared. to have literally disappeared unnoticed.

Based on the form of the trio-eletricos (a large, movable truck with impressions placed on top, on which musicians perform), Lombard music began to be popularized in Bahia and took shape in the porto Seguro as the first Lombard rhythmic splendor of the period in which the Southeast region (Brazil's most economically developed area) based on A habit of conformity disdained such rhythms from Bahia and were considered acceptable only for summer performances.

It is worth mentioning that there is a legend about the prohibition of the dance of the Lombarda, about which we have to go back to the 1830s. The real name of the banned dance was maxixe because of its hot lyrics and dance moves, and the problem with Lombarda at best was that there was some so-called erotic language in the lyrics at the time, but people who didn't know about it tried to hype up some so-called news points and couldn't wait for it to be a carnal line of dance. The funny thing is that now, years later, there are really carnal dances such as "danca da garrafa" and people don't seem to think much of them. (The danca da garrafa is a dance performed by a woman alone, who dances while curled up on top of a bottle and tries to get as close as possible to the top of the bottle with sensual movements that do not touch the bottle. At the same time, similar moves have been introduced as an element of sensual movement in many Latin American stage performances.

Although Lombarda has been recognized as synonymous with summer fever, Lombarda is still very far from being a globalized success, and while many of the newer LAMBATERIAS did not survive the winter off-season, closing down months after they opened, the Lombarda story is not over. Meanwhile, Lombarda stopped in Brazil during the winter, but in Europe there were others who had other ideas.

At the end of that summer, a couple of French businessmen came to Brazil and bought the rights to nearly 300 tracks of Lombarda music. They went back to France, formed the band KAOMA, added serious commercial promotion, and turned Lombarda into a globally known art form, even reaching Japan in the Far East. The globe received a major culture shock, a shock that screamed a lot of things beyond belief, and Lombarda returned to Brazil, but this time in the Southeastern region of the country (a region that had already been importing music from foreign countries for more than 10 years). And this redefinition of rumbada changed the way people danced, for the first time in the thirty years since the Beatles, and young men and women began to **** dance again. If there are now hundreds of ballroom dancing schools in Brazil, and untold numbers of young people who are happy because they dance, we should attribute them to the worldwide success that the band KAOMA achieved back then.

The second wave of the Lombarda storm, which we call the second Lombarda period of splendor, and this time even more exhilarating than the first, he gave us a new cultural icon in the form, besides the fact that young people once again went back to the dance floor to go to the ballroom to dance ballroom dancing, and that, for Brazil, the Lombarda was as famous as the samba in the world.

Another interesting story is that the title of the world's most famous lumbarda, "Chorando se foi", which means the one who no longer cries, is actually the name of a Bolivian song called Llorando se fue (the name of the two songs means the same thing). The name of the Bolivian album is also called Lombarda, so there is another legend that Lombarda is from Bolivia, however this is a very big mistake indeed.

The truth is that Kaoma's "Lambada" is not an original work, but was originally sung and written by the famous Bolivian folk band Los K'jarkas, and the title of the song is "Llorando Se Fue", which translates to "Weeping Leavers". French producers without permission to translate the Spanish into Portuguese, and to adapt the main instrument from the bagpipes into an accordion, with a strong rhythm and Brazilian fusion jazz elements, so that it lost its original Inca style, the speed is also much faster than the original, to become the current look, cheerful and rhythmic, now the song has become a representative track of the Lambada dance music. Lambada. Later, after a lawsuit, Los K'jarkas regained their rights. As a type of dance with global influence, the Lambada has been turned into other forms in many places, due to the lack of authentic Lambada movies, etc., dance professionals in most other regions started to go and change the way it is danced, rocking spins and steps started to be introduced (as in many American cowboy dances), and these places became the areas where some of the most difficult moves were often adopted.

Just to mention one thing, I once enjoyed a Lombarda competition at the "LambateriaUM", a Lombarda dance floor, where competitors were eliminated if they were out of step during the dance.

Since Lombard music was played on the radio, some artists tried to set the trend and recorded monumental works, such as Sidney Magal and Fafá de Belém, to name but a few, and these well known singers made a big deal out of their own performances, which were seldom mentioned by the Lombard culture and forgotten.

The decline of Lombard music and the rise of new forms

After repeated fluctuations, the Lombard composers slowly began to disappear, and the dance and music lost its power, leaving millions of fans around the world disillusioned and frustrated.

And some of the dancers who were still hanging in there began to dance on with other forms of music, finding their own place of fun long before the Lombarda died out.

So people started to get used to dancing the Lombarda to other forms of Caribbean music such as SOCA, MERENGUE SALSA and ZOUK, and it was at that time that another band sold a lot of Lombarda recordings in Brazil, a Lombarda band called GIPSY KINGS.

And eventually, the Lombarda The dance is not difficult, but it's about fluidity and smoothness, intimacy and coherence, but as some people like the Israeli SZERMAN (a Brazilian dance teacher), in many areas the Lombarda is called the Zouk, more because the Lombarda was created for an orphaned child.

And after all that I do wonder if it's so apt that we call Lombarda a ZOUK, because this ZOUK inherited LAMBADA in a way that seems more like a stepfather or just an adoption.

This question is like a philosophical one for me, and the main purpose of bringing you these things is to contribute something to the question of history during my lifetime and to document the real history of what happened.

The people who have a rich culture of their own, who can choose their own national rhythms are happy, and these people who are happy for their national culture will make sure that their national culture will never die out.

Let's embrace our Lombarda dancers and ZOUK lovers.

(This article was dictated by Chico Peltier of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and was originally translated into English by Claudio Falcao of Rio de Janeiro, the Chinese version you are reading now is organized by Salsawood Club Merchant's House of the Sea based on its English version and other related materials, if you reprint this article, please (Don't remove the author's byline, thanks!)

Lyrics for LAMBADA - KAOMA

Chorando se foi quem um dia so me fez chorar

Chorando se foi quem um dia so me fez chorar

Chorando estara ao lembrar de um amor

Que um dia nao soube cuidar

Chorando estara ao lembrar de um amor

Que um dia nau soube cuidar

A recordacao vai estar com ele aonde for

A recordacao via estar pre sempre aonde zu for

Danca sol e mar guardarei no othar

O amor faz perder encontar

Lambando estarei ao lembrar que este amor

Por um dia um instante foi rei

A recordacao vai estar com ele aonde for

A recordacao via estar pre sempre aonde zu for

Chorando estara ao lembrar di um amor

Que um dia nao soube cuidar

Cancao riso e dor melodia de amor

Um momento qu fica no ar