Kaoma (band)
|
Chart positions Explanation of the data |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Albums | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Singles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kaoma was a pop group produced in France around the singer Loalwa Braz . The band reached top positions in the international charts with their million-seller Lambada in 1989.
occupation
In 1988 the French producers Jean Georgakarakos and Olivier Lorsac (Olivier Lamotte d'Incamps) discovered the lambada dance while on vacation in the city of Porto Seguro (state of Bahia). Back in Paris, Georgakarakos and Lorsac got the Brazilian singer Loalwa Braz (lead vocals) and the celebrated Argentine tango bandonéonist Juan José Mosalini , with whom they also Jean-Claude Bonaventure (leader / producer, keyboards, synthesizer from Toulouse , France), Jacky Arconte (guitar from Guadeloupe ), Chyco Roger Dru (bass from Martinique ), Michel Abihssira (drums, percussion), Claudio Queiros (saxophone), Fania Niang and Monica Nogueira (both backing vocals). The core of the group (Chyco Dru, Jacky Arconte, Jean-Claude Bonaventure and Michel Abihssira) was the backing band of the Senegalese group Touré Kunda , which is very popular in France . The group was named after a provincial town in Zambia - Kaoma.
The song was then produced by Jean-Claude Bonaventure under the title Lambada , and a certain Chico de Oliveira was registered as a lyricist and music composer with the French collecting society SACEM - the pseudonym for Georgakarakos and Lorsac. The melody-bearing South American pan flute of the Bolivian original Llorando se fue from 1981 has been replaced by a bandoneon .
After the band broke up, Loalwa Braz released the solo album Recomeçar in 2003 .
Braz died in January 2017 at the age of 63.
Million seller
The song Lambada was published in France on June 21, 1989 with a high level of publicity and reached - together with the music video produced at the same time - first place in the French charts, where it remained for twelve weeks. 1.7 million records were sold in France. With a time lag, the song was also released in Germany in August 1989, where it was listed at number 1 for ten weeks and sold over two million times. Accompanied by a unique Lambada dance fever, the song finally conquered large parts of the world and was implemented six million times worldwide.
Albums
- 1989: Worldbeat (FR:
× 2Double gold ) - 1992: Tribal Pursuit (FR: gold)
Video albums
- 1990: Worldbeat: The Lambada Videos (US: gold)
Web links
- Kaoma in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kaoma at Discogs (English)
swell
- ↑ Chart discography albums DE, AT, CH
- ^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
- ↑ Chart discography Singles DE, AT, CH, US UK FR
- ↑ Awards: DE CH FR UK US
- ↑ Fernanda Soares: Loalwa Braz, do Kaoma, é achada morta em carro incendiado, diz polícia globo.com , January 19, 2017, accessed on January 19, 2017 (Portuguese)