Kaoma
Kaoma is a French-Brazilian pop group made up of former members of the band Touré Kunda: Chyco Dru (bassist), Jacky Arconte (guitarist), Jean-Claude Bonaventure (producer and keyboardist), Michel Abihssira (drums and percussion), Fania (vocals), and Loalwa Braz (lead singer), Chico and Roberta (dancers). Chyco Dru is from Martinique, Jacky Arconte from Guadeloupe, and Loalwa Braz from Brazil. They are best known for their 1989 hit single, "Lambada".
Career
In 1989, they had a major chart-topping hit with their dance music single "Lambada," a direct cover of Brazilian singer-songwriter Márcia Ferreira's 1986 dance hit "Chorando se foi," which itself was a legally authorized Portuguese-translated rendition of the original 1981 slow ballad, "Llorando se fue" by the Bolivian group Los Kjarkas. Given Kaoma's clear act of plagiarism and release of their single without Los Kjarkas' permission, Los Kjarkas successfully sued. "Dançando Lambada" and "Mélodie d'amour" were the next two singles and were also hit singles, although they failed to earn the same success as "Lambada". "Lambada" peaked at number 46 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart.
Podcasts:
Canticum
by: YearningRide to the silent shores and fly through the gardens of time
You will find your heaven
Your god had closed his eyes
Alone, free you are
View, immortalized by the crave for what
There is beyond the fields of gloom
Far from the useless lives of those empty slaves
There is no place for your life to go on
Who told you ignorance would be better?
"I wandered to eternity,
through the woods where dew
was still shining in the trees after the rain
and sight from the highest hill opened before my eyes,
taking my soul to its own"
Way out from thousand lies opens before your eyes
The end of path you go is always out of reach
Death is your plea
"shall I come to your dreams as you're asleep?"
Come to me and show me your godly wounds
Cry for me crushed tomorrow
Can you make me born again
And never to grow in shade of sorrow?