THE HISTORY OF LAMBADA AND ZOUK

The Lambada is a Brazilian resultant rhythm of the fusion of already existent rhythms in Brazil like the Forró, in the Northeast region and the Carimbó, of the Amazonian region, and other rhythms of the Latin America: the Cumbia and the Merengue.

The Lambada was going down the Northeast up to reaching the sands of Porto Seguro, city located at the south of the state of Bahia.

Enclosed by a nature almost unexplored and lived by a very creative and cheerful people, these elements gave to Lambada the necessary sensuality and the energy to bewitch the world, which initially was danced in the sands of the beaches, in front of tents, during the day and the night, passing later for the halls.

His national consecration was after the great success, in France, of the group Kaoma, in 1989, with the music " Chorando se Foi " an adaptation for the Lambada, done by the singer Márcia Ferreira in partnership with José Ari, of a folk Andean rhythm, the Saya, of authorship of Ulisses, Gonzalo and Hermosa Bolivian authors.

" In the beginning of the decade of 90 of the century XX, the Salsa marked presence in some countries of Europe, as well as in cities of the United States, using the explosion of theLambada, dance which gave rise to several productions cinematographic, thanks to the sensuality of his movements.

Today, it is noticed that the Salsa stood firm and strongly in Europe, when growing the number of followers and of home specialized in Latin rhythms.

Meanwhile, the Lambada got out of breath, starting to appear only like idiom,

so much that, at present, it is practiced only by inveterate lovers.

The Lambada as music left from fashion giving up place for other Latin rhythms, but the will of dancing of many sympathizers of that rhythm did not die with the funeral of same for the disc jockeys.

The sentence of our great master of ceremony Uncle Piu, artistic ex-director of the Ilha dos Pescadores (Rio of January), it shuts a great truth in:

" While the Lambadeiro survives the Lambada never will die ".

At present, we have the Lambada being danced to the sound of the Zouk, this original rhythm of Martinique, sung in his majority in creòle, French dialect, This rhythm is what more if it brings near of our Lambada, although last this one suffered influences of the zouk in his formation. From the time that blew up the Lambada, the zouk was already executed in many countries of Europe and Central America. It is a really fascinating rhythm, his cadence provides with an opportunity for much romanticism, principally when it the question is the Zouk Love. The name itself already says everything : It’s a true " Love Party ", it is a pure romanticism in order that no Latin Lover puts on defect. The lewdness of the Lambada gave up place for the refined sensuality of the zouk. In Martinique, as well as in Guadeloupe a dance was created for this rhythm. Here, in Brazil, first the music arrived and the translation in terms of movement was in charge of the dancers who saw in the zouk a possibility to maintain our lively Lambada.

For his melodic and concertina structure differentiated, the Lambada of once upon a time suffered alterations incorporating new steps, forms and dynamic different. It appears Zouk in Brazil. Today very strong in the Rio of January, Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte and Brasilia, winning forces again in Porto Seguro and many other cities of Brazil and all over the world.