Lambada - Original Mix -

Kaoma’s producer, Jean-Claude Bonaventure, originally credited the song to a fictional composer named "Chico de Oliveira". This led to immediate legal action:

The "Lambada" rhythm continues to live on through modern sampling. Most notably, the 1981 melody was the primary sample for 2011 hit "On the Floor" featuring Pitbull, and Don Omar’s single "Taboo" . Lambada - Original Mix

While Kaoma made the song famous, the melody was not their own. The history of "Lambada" is a series of musical translations: While Kaoma made the song famous, the melody

In 1990, the craze was so intense that two competing films, Lambada and The Forbidden Dance , were released in North America on the exact same day to capitalize on the trend. 2. A Tangled Web of Origins A Tangled Web of Origins The melody first

The melody first appeared as "Llorando se fue" ("In tears he/she left"), a slow, melancholic Andean folk song by the Bolivian group Los Kjarkas .