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 regular basis, and which were believed to be only summer hits. Although it was recognized as a summer hit, the Lambada was not yet a true worldwide success. Many of the first "lambaterias" (a place to dance Lambada) which opened in 1988 couldn't survive the low tourism of the winter season, and closed a few months later. Prior to Kaoma's 1989 cover of the Los Kjarkas song "Llorando se fue", dozens of groups and several singers had already performed the song using a dance rhythm, such as in 1984. Cuarteto Continental, Sexteto Internacional, and Puerto Rican singer Wilkins. Argentine singer