Brazilian lambada – Crying is gone

In 1976, the famous musician and singer from Pará, Pinduca, released a version entitled Lambada (like sambão) with track number 6 on the LP. As is known, it was the first song in the history of Brazilian popular music.

After years of success and exploding this musical in the northeast region and gaining strength throughout the southern region. And finally, music won the dance academies to this day. Success around the world was the responsibility of French businessmen.

What is certain is that French businessmen invested in lambada music, as well as having its vocalist, the Brazilian singer Loalwa Braz Vieira, head of the musical group KAOMA. In this way, the KAOMA Group launched in 1989 its success “ Chorando se foi. The lambada launched in Europe that year, was successful in Europe itself and other continents.

French businessmen adapted to the Bolivian rhythm “Clorando se foi”, it became the biggest hit in the musical world at the time. All over the world, lambada became a great success and, in a short time, it was present in movies and practically all auditorium programs, even appearing in soap operas. It was the time for the big contests and shows. The need for the show made the dancers create choreographies, turns and acrobatics to the rhythm of the lambada.

In 1985, Loalwa Braz Vieira decides to live in Paris after the Brésil en Fête show at the Palais des Sports. And that after holding a contest to choose a vocalist for a lambada group, Loalwa joined the band Kaoma, a group that lasted from 1989 until 1998, when she released her last album in Europe. Loalwa never stopped and continued singing in Portuguese, continuing to take the rhythm through the world of lambada.

Loalwa composed and sang three songs for the film industry; two songs in the film Le Roi Desperados - produced by the French television studio - and performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, in the soundtrack of the film Dis-moi oui; directed by Alexandre Arcady and with music by Phillipe Sarde.

She followed her solo career and also ran her firm Braz Brasil Produções, dedicated to the dissemination of Brazilian arts across continents. In 2011 she released a new solo album, Ensolado, featuring artists from Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. Upon moving to Paris, she met a Frenchman with whom she had two children.

After spending several years living in Europe, the Brazilian singer Loalwa decided to return to Brazil and opened a guest house in Saquarema, in the Lagos Region, in Rio de Janeiro.

In the early hours of January 19, 2017, bandits invaded the farm to carry out a robbery, which Loalwa tried to stop. In the action, she screamed for help, several times which was heard by local employees, but the criminals managed to escape, taking the singer in her own car. The police were notified, began the search and found the body in the burned-out car on the morning of the same day, on Estrada da Barreira, in the District of Bacaxá. Police information indicates that:

"The complaint that led to the conviction indicated that the singer was sleeping at the inn when the three broke into the bedroom door and attacked her with sticks, knife blows, kicks, punches and hanged her, while Loalwa called for help". And her body was found charred inside her car.

Loalwa's voice will forever shine wherever she wants it to be, and Lambada will carry her name throughout the hemisphere.

Upon waking up to kicks and punches, Loawa screamed several times for help. Her moan and scream was not able to get freedom. And so, Chorando se Foi, our lambada singer.

Burned in her own car, the voice of the Brazilian lamba fell silent in the moan of pain that only a Brazilian knows the depth that reaches the soul, and crying it was gone.