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 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