The song was licensed by producer Richard L. As a semi-plot, Roberta's father does not want her to hang out with Chico, but Loalwa mends the situation among the three. It featured the Brazilian child duo Chico & Roberta as love interests. The music video for "Lambada" was filmed on stage on Tago Mago Island in the Mediterranean Sea and on Cocos Beach in the city of Trancoso, Bahia, Brazil. In France, where it topped the chart for 12 weeks and sold almost two million copies, the single was No. "Chorando Se Foi (Lambada)" was the 37th best-selling single of the United Kingdom during 1989.
46 in the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming one of the best known Brazilian songs of all time.Īs of 1991, combined sales of the album and the single have reached one million records sold in Italy. 5 on the Australia ARIA Singles Chart, and in 1990 it reached No. 4 in both the UK Singles Chart and Irish Singles Chart, No. 1 in eleven different charts, as well as No. "Lambada" became a worldwide summer hit, selling over 5 million copies in 1989 and was part of the Lambada dance craze. In France, the song was used in a television advertisement for Orangina. Nowadays, "Chorando Se Foi (Lambada)" is credited to the Hermosa brothers (as authors), Alberto Maravi, Márcia Ferreira and José Ari. The first Portuguese translation and recording of "Llorando Se Fue" – as "Chorando Se Foi" – was released by Brazilian singer Ferreira in 1986 under her third album.
In 1984, an upbeat version of "Llorando Se Fue", introducing the accordion, was released by the Peruvian group Cuarteto Continental, whose arrangements (produced by Alberto Maravi) were later copied by Kaoma.
Overall, "Lambada" sold 5 million copies worldwide in 1989 alone according to the New York Times. The song in Portuguese was a mix cover of the 1986 hit "Chorando Se Foi" by Márcia Ferreira (with lyrics translated to Portuguese) and the Cuarteto Continental hit "Llorando Se Fue" (the first upbeat version of the song introducing the accordion), released in 1984 through the Peruvian record label INFOPESA and produced by Alberto Maravi both songs were adapted from the 1981 Bolivian song " Llorando se fue" by Los Kjarkas.Īt the time of release, "Lambada" was regarded as the most successful European single in the history of CBS Records, with sales of 1.8 million copies in France and more than 4 million across Europe. The video, filmed on Cocos beach in the city of Trancoso, in the state of Bahia, Brazil featured the Brazilian child duo Chico & Roberta. It featured guest vocals by Brazilian vocalist Loalwa Braz, and was released as the first single from Kaoma's debut album Worldbeat. " Lambada", also known as " Chorando Se Foi (Lambada)" or " Llorando Se Fue (Lambada)" (both meaning 'crying went away' in Portuguese and Spanish, respectively), is a song by French-Brazilian pop group Kaoma.