Lambada Lambada Lambada () is a dance from Pará, Brazil. The dance became internationally popular in the 1980s, especially in the Philippines, Latin America and Caribbean countries. It has adopted aspects of dances such as forró, salsa, merengue, maxixe and the carimbó. Lambada is generally a partner dance. The dancers generally dance with arched legs, with the steps being from side to side, turning or even swaying, and in its original form never front to back, with a pronounced movement of the hips. At the time when the dance became popular, short skirts for women were in fashion and men wore
Lambada of Carimbó" (as it is affectionately known) and he created rhythms, such as: Sirimbó, Lári-Lári, Lambada and Lamgode. In 1976, he launched a song entitled "Lambada (Sambão)", track number 6 of the LP "No embalo of carimbó and sirimbó vol. 5." It is the first Brazilian recording of a song under the label of "Lambada". Some support the version that the guitarist and composer Master Vieira, the inventor of the "guitarrada", would also be the creator of the Lambada music. His first official disc, "Lambada of Quebradas", was recorded in 1976 but officially launched two years later, in 1978. In