..Lambada
Lambada is a dance which became internationally popular in the 1980s. The exact origin of the dance is somewhat disputed but it is known to have begun in Brazil and has forerunners such as the forró, sayas, the maxixe, and the carimbó.
Lambada entered the global mainstream when the french pop group Kaoma recorded a number one worldwide summer hit "Lambada" which sold 5 million singles in 1989. This song was actually an unauthorised translation of the song "Llorando se fue", from the Bolivian group Los K’jarkas (see Music of Bolivia article for more about the translation of this song).
The association of Lambada and the idea of "dirty dancing" became quite extensive—the appellative "forbidden dance" was and is often ascribed to the Lambada—due to its links to maxixe (the true forbidden dance of the early 1920s in Brazil) as well as the 1990 movie Lambada.
After 1994 the Brazilian music style (also called Lambada), which gave birth to the dance, started to fade away, and the dancers began to use other musical sources to continue practicing the Lambada dance. Among these rhythms were the Flamenco Rumba (such as from the Gipsy Kings) and some Arabian music. Today the majority of Lambada is danced to Zouk and Kizomba musics and the dance evolved so much from its original form that there is an ongoing discussion whether the Zouk-Lambada is a new type of dance or just the natural evolution of the Lambada of the early 90s. Because the evolution of the type of music used by dancers, Zouk-Lambada today is devided in different styles. Style types include differences such as tempo, specific movements and stepping technique.
The Zouk-Lambada style is very popular in countries such as Brazil, Argentina, UK, Spain, Netherlands, Australia and Switzerland. Zouk-Lambada style is coming-up in countries such as USA, Portugal, Denmark, Israel, Aruba, Japan, Poland, Belgium, France and Thailand.
Source
http://en.wikipedia.org/
