"Pinduca" is a musician and composer of mainly Carimbó. He is a very well known singer at the north of Brazil ( Amapá and Pará area), where it is strongly believed he is the true father of the Lambada music. "Aurino Quirino Gonçalves", or simply Pinduca is a Brazilian musician. ]Īround 1983 the Carimbó dance started once more to be danced in couples, in a 2-beat style, something very close to Merengue, but with many spins.
This flowing wave motion is reproduced by the dancer's bodies, and is one of the main elements that distinguish Lambada from other Latin dances. The word Lambada is an obscure Brazilian Portuguese word, and refers to the wave like motion induced in a whip. This last name "Lambada" had a strong appeal and began to be associated with this new emerging face of an old dancing style. This strong relation also generated some new rhythms like the "Sirimbó" and the "Lari Lari", and so it changed forever the way the Carimbó was danced.Īfter a while, a local radio station from Belém (Pará's capital city) started to call these new type of music as "the strong beated rhythm" and "the rhythms of Lambada" (Lambada is another word in local language for a strong hit). It had many influences from the Caribbean music due to its geographical proximity, and a reminder of this is that even today one can listen to Caribbean radio stations when at some north states of Brazil like the Amapá state. The music was played mainly among beats of drums made of trunks of wood, thinned by fire.Īs time passed by, the dance changed as did the music itself. It was a loose and very sensual dance in which the woman tried to cover the man with many spins and rounded skirts. till 1822 a.c.) there was a common dance in the north part of the country called Carimbó. Since the time Brazil was a Portuguese colony (which happened between year 1500 a.c. The exact origin of the dance is in Brazil and has forerunners such as the forró, sayas, the maxixe, and the carimbó. The dance became internationally popular in the 1980s. Lambada ( Audio|Br-Lambada.ogg|pronunciation) is a fast, sensual Brazilian dance for couples or groups, typically performed with the stomachs touching.