Kaoma
Kaoma was the name of a pop group produced in France by the Paris-based singer Loalwa Braz. They arrived with their million-seller Lambada 1989 11 charts the first rank.
Genesis
The French producer Jean Georgakarakos and Olivier Lorsac ( Olivier Lamotte d' Incamps ) fell in 1988 in Porto Seguro ( Brazil) on a dance, which was also in Brazil is still relatively new - the Lambada. At this dance, there were some songs that introduced the term in the title or Lambada was danced to the Lambada. Among them was the song " Chorando se foi ", a Brazilian version of the song " Llorando se fue " ( " Crying, she went " ) the famous Bolivian folkloric troupe Los Kjarkas from Cochabamba. This had the Ulises Hermosa and his brother Gonzalo Hermosa Gonzalez - composed song, the people danced in Bolivia Saya, recorded for their 1981 LP, released by EMI Canto a la mujer de mi pueblo.
Occupation
Back in Paris, Georgakarakos and Lorsac brought the Brazilian singer Loalwa Braz (lead vocals) and the celebrated Argentine tango bandoneon player Juan José Mosalini to which they still Jean -Claude Bonaventure (Leader / Producer, keyboards, synthesizer), Jacky Arconte (guitar), Chyco Roger Dru ( bass), Michel Abinssira (drums, percussion ), Claudio Queiros (saxophone), Fania Niang and Monica Nogueira (both background vocals) organized. The core of the group consisted of posts originating from Porto Seguro Touré Kunda troops and was named after a provincial town in Zambia - Kaoma.
Under the title Lambada then the song by Jean -Claude Bonaventure was produced, as a lyricist and music composer was a certain Chico de Oliveira at the French collecting society SACEM registered - the pseudonym for Georgakarakos and Lorsac. The melody -bearing South American panpipes of the original was replaced by a bandoneon.
Million Sellers
With high publicity effort, the song was released on June 21, 1989 in France and reached - together with the parallel -produced music video - the first rank of the French charts, on which he remained for twelve weeks. In France, 1.7 million plates have been implemented. With some delay, the song was released in August 1989 in Germany, where he eventually ten weeks no one listed and over 2 million were sold times. Accompanied by a unique lambada dance fever the song finally conquered large parts of the world and was reacted for 6 million copies worldwide.
Plagiarism
The worldwide hit was not unnoticed by the real authors in Bolivia. They sued the French CBS for plagiarism, but compared to out of court with Georgakarakos and Lorsac.
After the dissolution of the band Loalwa Braz published 2003 solo album Recomeçar.