1989 – Los Flamers from the album Gran Reventon Gran, Vol.1988 – Tropicalismo Apache from the album Exitos Quemantes.1988 – Ana Morena from the compilation album Baila Baila Baila, Vol.1988 – Los Hermanos Rosario from the album Otra Vez.1987 – Sonora Andacollo from the album Norte Tropical – Lambada.1986 – Pastor López from the album Cumbia Universal.1986 – Los Graduados from the album Flor de un día.1985 – Vico y su Grupo Karicia from the LP Voz y sentimiento.1985 – Don Medardo y sus Player from the album Lo Mejor del Año, Vol.4.1985 – Juan "Corazón" Ramón from the album Cada Día Mejor.1984 – Wilkins from the album Una Historia Importante – 15 Grandes Exitos.1984 – Armonia 10 from the LP El Chinchorro, Vol.1984 – Cuarteto Continental from the LP Fiesta de Cumbias.Prior to Kaoma's 1989 release of the song, several covers of "Llorando se fue" had been released as dance tracks: Their song was written in a sad and slow Afro-Bolivian Saya rhythm. Īccording to Gonzalo, Los Kjarkas had based "Llorando Se Fue" on a small, nostalgic Andean melody. The song's lyrics and music had been lawfully registered in 1985 by the founding members of Los Kjarkas – Gonzalo and Ulises Hermosa – in Germany's Music and Authors Society (GEMA), and the unauthorized copy by Kaoma led to a successful 1990 lawsuit by Los Kjarkas against Kaoma's producer Jean-Claude Bonaventure. The lyrics and music of Kaoma's "Chorando Se Foi (Lambada)" were an unauthorized translation of the song " Llorando se fue", originally composed, performed and recorded by the Bolivian Andean folk group Los Kjarkas in 1981. However, the Kaoma group did not credit the original song of Los Kjarkas, turning their version into plagiarism and ending with a lawsuit that would be won by the original authors of the song, the Bolivian group. 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.