The unlikes are from people who know that kaoma ripped off this song from Los Kjarkas, a Bolivian group from the 60's. This song was written and meant to be an Adean folkloric melody.
And Mexico but in Mexico it was censored and the national tv refuse to invite the band until people NAG the tv station so much they have to invited them and even the tv presenter did a TVR suggestion before presenting the band on live tv. 80s Mexico was very conservative. and in usa they made a movie abound this I think it was called forgotten dance something like that
It was so popular that it was even featured on the news a few times. There were people taking lessons, there was talk about it being too racy, and there were even large groups dancing at festivals. :)
Lambada (the dance) was a big hit in itself, but this song was NOT a big hit in the US. At all. It only got to #48 on the hot 100 here (so it didn't get all the airplay on top 40 countdowns and regular airplay). I'm not surprised he'd not heard it.
He is american, they may see this dancing not that apropiate for 2 young ones and even mixing races is still a taboo in some parts of his country, I bet he got surprised, but for we latinos is like “aaaw, dance the crap out of that floor, kids!” 😁
Realmente foi foda. Uma das grandes intérpretes do nosso país. Minha esperança era depositada em meu conterrâneo Gabriel Diniz, que infelizmente se foi muitíssimo novo. Um carisma que teria sua repercussão internacional como Luis Fonsi atualmente liderando o cenário latino pelo mundo
This was a huge hit in Finland when I was about 6. This is a song from my childhood :) Also, those two kids dancing in the video are/were professional dancers and they danced together. I cannot remember their names anymore, I did a research on them years ago.
En Realidad la canción original es del Grupo Boliviano "Los Kjarkas" 🇧🇴❤️ y es una canción Florklorica, seria muy lindo que la escuches también, saludos desde Cochabamba - Bolivia. 👋❤️
Gracias por responder 🤗 escucha "llorando se fue de los Kjarkas " así se llama la canción, es un ritmo Florklorico si te animas a escuchar canciones suyas sería muy bueno, te recomiendo tiempo al tiempo 👋😋 saludos.
So adorable to see those stiff europeans swiveling their stiff hips. And they would 'count' the steps! 😂 i'm originally from the carribean so the very idea of counting steps whilst feeling the music, was alien to me. Ffwd some 30 years(!)and I'm as european as smoking cigarettes indoors
I was the "weird black girl" in my circle of friends dancing and singing to this years ago. My friends, black and white, weren't raised with a variety of music like I was, so I consider myself to be blessed. What about "Las Ketchup" (aka The Ketchup Song) by Asereje? You may recognize a certain rap song that they blended within it. There's also "La Macarena" by Los Del Rio. It was popular and often made fun of, but a lot of people who made fun of it like it. I like it! :D
You got it mixed up, the song is called 'Asereje' and the group is called 'Las Ketchup'. And yes, the lyrics were based on how the song 'Rapper's delight', by The Sugarhill Gang, sounded like to Spanish speakers (at least for those who don't speak English). I think it is what you call 'mumbling'?
It's originally from BOLIVIA. It's originally in Spanish, buy Kaoma made it worldwide known, in Portuguese. But either or I love it! And yes JLo made a cover for it in English...
Wooooow!! This was a banger!!! Back in the day, and YES J-LO barrowed it lol, this is my new favorite video 😂 great song gotta looooove!! Brazilians 😍.. Forgot when poppa-duke stepping and how all it took was a lil mama for ol' piepie to be like "its all good noow lol girl!, have a good time" and don't forget to come home late tomorrow morning!!" Lol lol 😂 😂 😂
This video brings a lot of good memories. In 1989-1990 I was a student at the University of Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 and was attending a Portuguese course. Kaoma came to the University for a student concert. It was a lot of fun.
The song is originally from Bolivia! ❤ I love this version and love the original from Los Kjarkas. They got through some legal issues for using the song like theirs, really interesting story 😂
i was also 9 years old back in '89 and i remember that being scandalous back then... 😂 (that's also not their original, it's a cover but they made it famous worldwide)
Do you see those kids...? This was us in Iran in the 80s, post Islamic revolution! This whole BetaMax and VHS video of Lambada got smuggled to Iran with many dance lessons and we would learn how to dance it in the secret parties as kids and teens (you know music, dance and practically LIFE had become forbidden since the revolution in 1979). This was THE viral dance in Iran before Hammer, Macarena, or Ketchup! This was the soundtrack to our lives in the 80s! I remember me and my childhood friend dancing to this from probably 4 to when we were 9-10. The music and dance, as you also pointed out, just gave us life and a reason to go on in those dark scary days which less or more have lasted for around 40 years till this day. This was fun to watch and a great reaction, thanks...
Min. 1:10 Yes Jamel , this where JLo got On the Floor song from and Kaoma got it from Bolivian group Los Kjarkas who wrote it and released it in 1981 without much success. There were several artists who covered the song before Kaoma but this is the most successful version.
ISSO AÍ É UM POUQUINHO DE BRASIL! Gosto muito dos seus vídeos. Quando os brasileiros descobrirem o seu canal, você verá o que é festa e alegria. Parabéns, e Deus abençoe sua vida! Forte abraço.
J, you are the best! The love of music is so uniting especially in this time that we are living in. Listening and watching you take in all the unique and different styles of music is heart warming. Keep it up!
An absolute classic. Love it after all these years. So sad that the lady singing lead vocals was killed so brutally, placed in a car and set on fire in her later years.
This band Kaoma also stole this song from the Bolivian group Los Kjarkas and Kaoma got sued for it. The name of this song is "Llorando se fue" NOT Lambada, and it's by the Bolivian folkloric group Los Kjarkas
@@pashtthejustice9294 Lo único que da asco es tu mente y tus palabras... Aprende respeto y deja a los demás en paz, que seguro ya estás muy viejo y no hay excusa de odiar sin razón a otro país que ni se defiende y suele pasar de comentarios malos. A nosotros nos invadieron también y por ejemplo los árabes estuvieron 700 años y no oirás por la calle insultos o verás malas caras. De hecho damos crédito a lo heredado(siempre que uno lo sepa) como la guitarra o al lenguaje prestado(aceitunas, alcohol, hazaña, etc)
My word, this brings up so many memories! I remember being a little girl, whenever this song would come up, there would be no force to stop me dancing "lambada"! Oh, the childhood! :)
1:02 Lol i was waiting for the moment he was going to recognize that sound from 😂 Thought as a Brazilian i can't complain about Jennifer Lopez copying us since the original version wasn't made by us and yes another person lol
I've loved this happy sassy tune and video for ages, and I get up and dance each time. Watching you watch it and getting and grooving to the joyous vibe of it all is fantastic!
That was the way it was marketed in the West. I remember the Lambada craze in the netherlands. So funny because they all felt like they were part of something 'special'...yet accesible to everybody. There was nothing forbidden about it. That was just to make white people feel 'naughty' when they try and do the Lambada on some cruise. I remember me and my cousin learning to dance to it and then my mother and our aunts would say:"go on! Show everybody what you learned. It's soooo cute!" We HATED that. We flat out refused after that one time. Felt like being a performing monkey😂
Saludos a mis hermanos Basileños , la Lambada es de mis canciones Favoritas, deberian reaccionar a ritmos Colombianos o a Tropicales como la Salsa o Cumbia saludos
The original was by Los Kjarkas, from Bolivia (in Spanish), a folk song. It wasn't until the Brazilian group Kaoma added the "dancing" rhythm and lyrics in Brazilian that it became a hit and hot song.
Brother, bringing back memories, i was in Venezuela, Margarita Island, at a club called the mosquito coast, dancing to this in the wee hours of the morning, good times...
Loalwa Braz, the Brazilian singer best known as the voice of the 1989 global hit “Lambada,” was found dead in a burned out car near her home in a coastal town outside of Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian police have detained three men in what has been described as a robbery gone awry, according to the Brazilian news site globo.com. Braz’s body was discovered in the burned out vehicle on Thursday (Jan. 19 2017)
@@netby Not to mention the killing of environmental activists, the destruction of the Amazon by big companies aided and abetted by Bolsonaro for greed, no doubt.
I grew up in the 90s in Mexico, they called it the forbidden dance back then. Now I dance to this song in portugues to put my half irish white baby caramel son (kind of looks like a lil canelo, the second one my wife and happily made) to sleep. The world is a small beautiful place. You should react to the song Ana no duerme by Almendra, that's the kind of music I used on the first one!!
Not sure if you are aware of Fela.....huge presence in world music and pioneered the AfroBeat in the 70’s/80’s, mixing funk, jazz with African rhythms. Awesome and hypnotic stuff. This isn’t even mentioning his visual performance and anti-government stance
Thank you for making this video, your reaction is amazing! This was one of my favorite songs growing up. I was so sad to learn about the Loalwa Braz, the singer's, tragic murder. May she live forever through her music.
So i had to do this: the Kaoma version was FIRE back in the day. But i gotta rep n shout out LOS KJARKAS for the original composition, both music and lyrics. Los Kjarkas (kahr-kas) are a Bolivian folk group, this particular rhythm is known as Caporal and it originated in Bolivia (yes ppl from all over dance it, but dassit). After Kaoma dropped this hit, Los Kjarkas went to court and won the rights to the intellectual property. So *any* version of this beat (Kaoma, JLo, Don Omar) is thanks to them. ❤💛💚 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xKau76yc4HE.html
Me encanta ese ritmo, me recuerdo mi niñez. Aqui en Colombia fue muy famoso hace ya unos cuantosss años. Aún lo escucho y se me hace la piel de gallina 1989... Antes que Jlo
Soy mexicana, y escucho esta canción desde chiquita por mi tía que vivió en Brasil, y luego por otro cantante que la interpretó en español, pero siempre la ame 💕 y el idioma es muy parecido así que ya después fue fácil para mí relacionar las palabras , es una canción que simplemente t3 invita a bailar 💕💕
I'm so glad you did this. In 1989 I was 9 too living in Ecuador and Lambda was banging. I love dancing to it. Music is a big thing for us latinos, it does sooth our souls, everyone is happy when theyydancing.
