Lambada d'Incamps, visited Porto Seguro in Brazil and discovered locals dancing the tightly syncopated lambada to a melody that turned out to be Bolivian. D'Incamps became involved in the lambada dance craze, largely by promoting a European tour of Kaoma, a band formed with several musicians from the Senegalese group Touré Kunda. To display the dance in Europe, he chose a team of the best dancers at the Boca Da Barra (a dance cabana on the beach in Porto Seguro where lambada dancers refined and developed the style and form of the dance). Most notable among these young dancers chosen for
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