Lambada another dancing style and rhythm arising the following summer. A few years before the Lambada, there was the "Fricote" and the "Ti-Ti-Ti" among others dances, all of which disappeared never to be remembered again. Among with the "Trio-eletricos" (big movable trucks covered with speakers, on top of which musicians would play during the Carnival in Bahia), in 1988 the Lambada started to become popular in Bahia, and established itself in the city of Porto Seguro. Still, in this first boom of the Lambada, the economically developed south-east region of Brazil despised the various rhythms which came from Bahia on a
Lambada Loalwa Braz, which sold 5 million singles in 1989. The song peaked at #46 in the United States in 1990 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart. In Portuguese, the "Lambada" song is called "Chorando se foi", which means "Crying he/she went away". In the music video, there were two young children, named Chico and Roberta, performing the lambada dance. They shortly thereafter started their own musical career. Other music videos featured Loalwa Braz, Braz Dos Santos, Didi Dos Santos, and other dancers from the Kaoma European Tour. These videos were broadcast extensively worldwide and, capturing the imagination of audiences who