Kaoma is a popular musical group created in France. It consisted of black people from several Latin American states. The role of leader and producer was taken over by a keyboard player named Jean, and Loalva Braz became the soloist.
Incredibly quickly, the work of this team began to enjoy incredible popularity. This is especially true for the famous hit with the name "Lambada".
The video clip, where charming 10-year-olds harmoniously perform an incendiary dance, has gained millions of views. This is what helped the soloist Loalva become famous all over the planet.
The hit instantly topped all the charts. This composition also reached the CIS. Many, after listening to the song and watching the video, tried to repeat the legendary movements.
But, unfortunately, the fate of the main acting figure of the Kaoma group was not rosy.
Loalva's career and the Kaoma band
Since childhood, Loalva Braz has become interested in music. Her parents were people from the musical field. His father was a conductor, and his mother was a professional pianist.
From childhood, they instilled in their daughter a love of music and playing musical instruments. Already at the age of 4, Loalva masterfully owned the piano, and at the age of 13 she began to sing.
Initially, the girl was invited to perform at a nightclub in Rio de Janeiro. There, she entertained the local audience with incendiary motives, but this did not last long.
After all, the Braves once attracted Brazilian artists Gilberto and Cayetana Veloso. After the performance, they offered her a joint recording of songs. Loalva agreed.
In 1985, the girl moved to the capital of France and performed here with the author's show Brésilen Fête, which was a huge success.
Debut Lambada conquered the world
In 1989, the performer's career took off. She became the soloist of the musical group Kaoma, and a few months later the very song “Lambada” was recorded, which became one of the most famous hits in many countries.
The premiere took place on TV in France, and a day later Europe learned about this composition.
It's been less than 7 days and the song has already shipped to the US. There, the group signed multi-million dollar contracts with local companies. The legendary single was released with a circulation of 25 million copies.
But in Japan, this group and their song were initially banned. But time passed, and "Lambada" also captured the land of the rising sun. This fashion also came to the Soviet Union. The legendary dance was even studied in Soviet schools.
You can also remember the hare from the cartoon "Well, wait a minute!", Also performing the song "Lambada". In addition, the text of this song, or rather its translation, was published in the Pionerskaya Pravda newspaper.
But along with the success, there were some difficulties. So, after the presentation of the composition "Lambada", the musical group began to be accused of plagiarism.
Allegedly, their creation was a cover version of the song Chorando Se Foi from the Brazilian singer Marcia Ferreira in 1986.
There was even a trial during which the Kaoma group was found to be the guilty party, and the members of the team had to pay decent compensation.
While part of Kaoma, Loalva made three records. Then she decided to start a solo career, presented a similar number of albums.
The last one was released in 2011. She performed her own songs in Portuguese, Spanish, French and English. All of them were quite good, but the composition "Lambada" was the best and most popular creation.
In addition to recording records, the performer regularly toured with concerts in various European countries. She also ran her own hotel business, opening several hotels.
Shocking news of the death of Loalva Braz
On January 19, 2017, terrifying headlines appeared on the front pages of many publications: “Loalva Braz is dead!”. The corpse of the performer was found in a completely burned-out car parked in a residential area of the city of Saquarema.
The investigation almost immediately managed to find out that this was not an accident, but a planned crime. Laolva was killed at the time of the robbery of the hotel, of which she was the owner.
At first, the criminals were only going to rob the hotel, but when the owner resisted, they beat her with sticks.
Then they loaded the woman's body into a car, drove it to the outskirts of the city and burned it to cover up the traces of the crime. According to the media, at the time of the arson, the famous performer was still alive.
The crime was quickly investigated. Soon they managed to detain the killers of Loalva Braz. As it turned out, one of the intruders was a former employee of this hotel, who was fired for failing to fulfill his duties.
According to the first version, the idea of murder belongs to him for the sake of revenge.
There is a second version, according to which the only goal of the criminals was a significant amount of money in the amount of 4,5 thousand pounds, along with expensive dishes and a platinum disc, awarded to the performer for performing the legendary hit "Lambada".
At the time of her death, the legendary Loalva was only 63 years old.
