Lambada (song)
| Lambada | |
|---|---|
| Kaoma | |
| publication | July 1989 |
| length | 3:28 |
| Genre (s) | Lambada |
| Author (s) | Chico de Oliveira, Gonzalo Hermosa-Gonzales |
| Producer (s) | Jean-Claude Bonaventure |
| album | Worldbeat |
Lambada is the title of a million-seller by the international group Kaoma , which was put together in France in 1989 and which sparked a wave of dance with the dance of the same name .
History of origin
The song Lambada is actually a plagiarism , because the music and parts of the text go back to the original title Llorando se fue ("She went crying") by the Bolivian folklore troupe Los Kjarkas from the municipality of Cochabamba . She had recorded the song composed by Ulises Hermosa and his brother Gonzalo Hermosa-Gonzalez, to which people dance Saya in Bolivia , for their LP Canto a la mujer de mi pueblo , which was released by EMI in 1981 .
Origin of the Lambada
The radio DJ Heraldo Caracciolo from Belém created in 1974 for the different dance styles of his Latin American records - Merengue ( Dominican Republic ), Plena ( Puerto Rico ), Carimbó ( Marajó Island ), Salsa , Rumba and the other Brazilian dances Forró and Maxixe - a common name: Lambada . In Brazilian slang, the word means something like "slap" or "slap".
In 1976 Aurino Quirino Gonçalves published a song under his stage name Pinduca under the title “ Lambada (Sambão) ” as the sixth track on his LP “ No embalo of carimbó and sirimbó vol. 5 ". Another Brazilian record called “ Lambada das Quebradas ” was released in 1978.
At the end of 1980, a few dance halls were finally opened in Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian cities under the name Lambateria . Márcia Ferreira then remembered this forgotten Bolivian song in 1986 and recorded a legal Portuguese cover version for the Brazilian market under the title Chorando se foi (same meaning as in the original Spanish) with Portuguese lyrics; but this version was also unsuccessful.
The French producers Jean Georgakarakos and Olivier Lorsac (Olivier Lamotte d'Incamps) noticed a dance in Porto Seguro (Brazil, Bahia state) in 1988 that was still relatively new in Brazil - the lambada . There were some songs for this dance that had the term lambada in the title or which lambada could be danced on. Including the 1986 hit "Chorando se foi" was by Márcia Ferreira , a Brazilian version of the Cuarteto Continental hits "Llorando se fue", the first of Alberto Maravi produced upbeat version with an accordion, in 1984 under the Peruvian record label INFOPESA published had been.
Million seller emerges
Back in France, Georgakarakos and Lorsac engage the Brazilian singer Loalwa Braz (lead vocals) and the celebrated Argentine tango bandoneonist Juan José Mosalini in Paris , with whom they also have Jean-Claude Bonaventure (leader / producer, keyboards, synthesizer) and Jacky Arconte (guitar ), Chyco Roger Dru (bass), Michel Abinssira (drums, percussion), Claudio Queiros (saxophone), Fania Niang and Monica Nogueira (background vocals). The core of the group consisted of the Touré Kunda troupe from Porto Seguro and 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 panpipe of the original has been replaced by the Brazilian accordion. The syncopated, ostinato- oriented rhythm emphasizes the rhythm-intensive form of the song edited by Alan Pype. This mixture finally adds up to an erotic-lascivious, dance-oriented recording. The song was presented at a music festival in Paris in June 1989 with great marketing effort and released as a decoupling from the LP Worldbeat in two size formats (single and maxi single) on June 21, 1989 in Paris (CBS # 655 011 7).
In France, the record stayed at the top of the charts for 12 weeks, in Germany for ten weeks. Lambada was also at the top in Scandinavia, Italy and Austria. On January 12, 1990, Kaoma wanted to transfer the Lambada dance fever in the New York Palladium to the USA, which only succeeded in the US Latin charts (only 46th in the pop charts).
plagiarism
When Lambada music had spread around the world in the charts, the composers of the original also took notice. The Hermosa brothers recognized their composition and brought in a lawyer who mobilized GEMA . This confirmed a "strong agreement" with the original, whereupon a meeting between Hermosa and the French took place in Brazil in September 1989. Legally inexperienced and confused by the complex copyright issues in an international case, the Hermosa brothers sued the record company CBS for plagiarism in June 1990. More truth comes to light on the liner notes of the US-American LP version: "Ulysse and Gonzalo Hermosa contributed to the realization", although Oliveira was still named as the composer. According to the French press, Lorsac had offered the Bolivians a settlement amount of $ 140,000 for the assignment of rights, but was refused. Finally, in June 1990, an out-of-court settlement was reached, according to which Lorsac as publisher and promoter was allowed to keep 25% of the royalties , while CBS as the record label received 25% and EMI, as the rights holder of the original song, received 50%. Only with this comparison did the original composers gain their recognition as legitimate authors. Ulises Hermosa didn't get much of the income because he died on April 4, 1992 of leukemia in the USA.
Germany
With a time lag, Lambada became a summer hit across Germany in August 1989 . It entered the German charts on August 21, 1989, and on September 25, 1989, it reached first place, which it occupied for 10 weeks. The “Lambada” video inspired the Germans to imitate the rhythmic movements. The dance schools could hardly cope with the onslaught of fans eager to learn. The video published at the same time was shot on Cocos Beach in Trancoso (Bahia) and shows in particular the Brazilian children's duo Chico & Roberta performing the dance.
statistics
A total of 11 charts put the song at number one. In France, the country of production, the single sold 1.735 million, in Germany over 2 million and in Great Britain 400,000 copies. Almost 6 million singles and another 2 million LPs were sold worldwide. The song, which has meanwhile been registered with the US collecting society ASCAP for the brothers Gonzales Gonzalo and Ulises Hermosa, has been covered 21 times. In addition, the song On the Floor by Jennifer Lopez with Pitbull builds on the refrain melody of Lambada.
Chart placements
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
|---|---|---|
| Chart placements | ||
 Germany (GfK)
|
1 (33 weeks) | 33 |
 Austria (Ö3)
|
1 (24 weeks) | 24 |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
|
1 (28 weeks) | 28 |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
|
4th (19 weeks) | 19th |
 United States (Billboard)
|
46 (12 weeks) | 12 |
Awards for music sales
| Country / Region | Award | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales) |
||
|
Germany (BVMI)
|
 2 × platinum
|
1,000,000 |
 France (SNEP)
|
platinum
|
1,735,000 |
 Japan (RIAJ)
|
platinum
|
266,000 |
 Netherlands (NVPI)
|
platinum
|
60,000 |
 Sweden (IFPI)
|
platinum
|
50,000 |
|
Switzerland (IFPI)
|
 gold
|
25,000 |
|
United Kingdom (BPI)
|
gold
|
400,000 |
| All in all |
2 × gold 6 × platinum |
3,536,000 |
See also
Trivia
- The work of art Cosmos 2001 by the French artist Boris Achour, born in Marseille in 1966, "hums" the lambada melody (the voice of the artist himself can be heard). The work is owned by the Center Pompidou and is currently on display in the permanent exhibition of the branch in Málaga .
Web links
- Kaoma - Lambada at Discogs (English)
- Le phénomène «Lambada»: globalization et identité Nuevo Mundo, May 2006 (French website)
- Discography of Los Kjarkas
- Official music video on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Felix Lill: How “Lambada” became one of the great plagiarism cases of pop . Badische Zeitung , September 25, 2014, accessed on January 19, 2017.
- ↑ Chris McGowan, Ricardo Pessanha: Le son du Brésil. Samba, bossa nova et musiques popular . Paris 1999, pp. 183-187
- ↑ McGowan, Pessanha: Le son du Brésil. P. 184
- ^ The Lambada, a Torrid New Dance, Is Not for the Bashful or the Demure . In: New York Times , January 21, 1990
- Jump up ↑ Dance of the Vampires . In: Die Zeit , No. 42/1989
- ↑ Brazilian Wonder Turns Out Bolivian . In: New York Times , July 4, 1990
- ↑ Katja Iken: Dance Hype Lambada: Circular hips, trembling pelvis on Spiegel Online , from September 24, 2009; Retrieved December 26, 2015
- ^ Kaoma - Lambada chart placement Germany. GfK Entertainment , accessed on May 13, 2018 .
- ^ Kaoma - Lambada chart placement Austria. In: Austriancharts.at. Hung Medien, accessed March 12, 2018 .
- ^ Kaoma - Lambada chart placement Switzerland. In: Hitparade.ch. Hung Medien, accessed May 13, 2018 .
- ^ Kaoma - Lambada Charthistory United Kingdom. Official Charts Company , accessed May 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Kaoma - Lambada chart placement in the United States. Billboard , accessed May 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Gold / platinum database. musikindustrie.de, accessed on May 13, 2018 .
- ↑ The work in the Center Pompidou catalog