Culture of Dominica French Antillean compas music style, which sounds basically the same, although there are notable differences once you become more familiar with these genres. A main exponent of this subgenre is Ophelia Marie of Dominica. Other Zouk Love artists come from the French West Indies, the Netherlands, and Africa. In Brazil, the zouk rhythm is used to dance the Brazilian Lambada. Since the addition of many new steps changed the characteristics from Lambada, a new name was given to this dance "Zouk-lambada", which was originally called "zouk Love", later just "zouk". Today, the Brazilian Zouk has changed, and the name "Traditional
Lambada to side movements and many spins and hip movement, which became the basis of the lambada. After a while, a local radio station from Belém (Pará's capital city) started to call this new type of music "the strong-beated rhythm" and "the rhythms of "lambada"". The term "lambada" had a strong appeal and began to be associated with the new emerging face of an old dancing style. The word "lambada" means "strong slap" or "hit" in Portuguese. However, as a dance form, "lambada" is of obscure etymology. In Portuguese it may refer to the wave-like motion of a whip. This flowing