Zouk Love

Zouk love Stylistic origins Compas music Cultural origins Mid 1980s, Guadeloupe and Martinique Fusion genres Cabo-Love - Zouk-lambada - Zouk-R&B - Kizomba Music of Martinique General topics Related articles Genres Biguine, Mini-jazz, Chouval bwa, Jump up, Kadans, Zouk, Nationalistic and patriotic songs National anthem La Marseillaise Regional music Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Louisiana, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos, Virgin Islands, v, t, e, Zouk-love, or simply Zouk is a popular dance and music originating from the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique. It has its origin in a slow tempo form of cadence sung by Ophelia Marie of Dominica. Elements of tambour and tibwa are sometimes prominent in zouk love. The French Creole tongue of Martinique and Guadeloupe is an important element, and are a distinctive part of the music. Generally, zouk is based around star singers, with little attention given to instrumentalists, and is based almost entirely around studio recordings. In Africa, it is popular in Franco- and lusophone countries. In Europe, it is particularly popular in France, and in North America in the Canadian province of Quebec. Origins edit: Zouk Love is the French Antilles compas, characterized by a slow, soft and sexual rhythm. It has its origin in a slow tempo form of cadence sung by Ophelia Marie of Dominica. The lyrics of the songs often speak of love and sentimental problems. Patrick Saint Eloi is a profound artist. He is the author of hits like "Darling", "West Indies", "Rev An Mwen" and "zouk". Played in duet with Jocelyne Béroard "Pabizwen palé. Jean-Philippe Marthely is also behind songs such as "Pretty Kreate", "Pazapa" and "Lanmou sé pa Djendjene. But it was Béroard Jocelyne with her song "Kolé Séré" (gold) that allowed the whole of France to discover her music. Zouk-love or Compas styles edit: Kizomba edit: Main article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizomba Kizomba is one of the most popular genres of dance and music originating from Angola in the late 80's. It is a mix of traditional Angolan semba and zouk music from the French Caribbean sung generally in Portuguese. Although Kizomba was not originally a fusion of semba and zouk, presently arose a version of kizomba influenced by zouk, and is wrongly being popularized as kizomba, as the name given to this version is "Kizouk" or "kizombalove". This zouk influenced of kizomba (or vice versa) is actually becoming very popular throughout the world. Zouk-R&B edit: An alternative of zouk influenced by the American R&B is call Zouk R&B. It is a mixture of contemporary R&B and zouk love. This trend has taken birth in Paris with artists such as Slaï, Thierry Cham, Jane Fostin, Ali Angel, Medhy costs, Nichols, Kimberlite Zouk, Warren, Marvin, Kaysha, Elizio, Teeya, Soumia Linsha and etc. Jean-Michel Rotin is the precursor of Zouk R&B (also known as Zouk RNB, Zouk R'NB) or "américanisé" with their song "Le Ou Lov", "Sof will," "Stop", "Cigaret", "Chut j'taime" "Mwen'm not," "And I love her" and "Ella". This trend has been made popular with the French public due to the success of Slaï, Thierry Cham, Medhy costs, and Pearl Déesses Lama. Cola-Zouk edit: Main article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coladeira The musical style cabo-love originating from the Cape Verde islands is a derivative of Zouk mixed with other Cape verdian rhythms. In some cases there has been a fusion of the zouk love with the coladeira, to which several names have been given, such as cola-dance, cola-zouk, cabo-swing, cabo-love, etc. However, in other cases the performance is practically a zouk copy. In this variant, the rhythm has the same accentuation as the compas, the instrumentation is also copied from the zouk, the accentuation of the melody line is different, the syncopation is made in other contexts and the melody line is less continuous than the traditional coladeira, with breaks. Compas nouvelle génération edit: In the early 2000, several of the compas nouvelle génération bands such as Carimi, T-vice, Top vice, and Zeglen toured the French Antilles as usual with success. The singer Vro with Softcore and many other Antillean artists have adopted this light compas style, which is more popular in France and the Caribbean. Cabo Verdean, Caribbean and African artists usually feature one another via compas songs. Popular artists includes artists like Jacky Rapon in song like "Mi Amor", Ludo in song like "Weekend", Jackito in song like "Je l'aime a mourir" and Priscillia in song like "Dis le moi", Ali Angel in song like "Zouk Bordel 2003", and Iron in song like "Mr DJ" . Zouk dancing edit: Caribbean Zouk edit: There are multiple ways to dance to zouk music: Zouk Love (Traditional way) French Caribbean way (Antilles/Haiti)., French-speaking Africa way., , Zouk-Lambada style. A fusion of French Caribbean zouk love and Brazilian styles danced to zouk rhythmic music. Brazilian zouk. An evolved Brazilian version of zouk dancing utilizing French Caribbean, Portuguese Cape Verdean and other zouk-like rhythmic music., Lambazouk or Lambada. Lambada dance style (or a variation of it) danced to zouk love., , Angolan Kizomba, and Cape Verdean cola-zouk dance style. Are all derivatives of zouk or compas music., Zouk in Brazil edit: Main article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zouk-Lambada In Brazil, the zouk rhythm is used to dance a Brazilian dancing style, however, with movements more suited to the music. The Lambada is usually very fast and frantic. Unlike that, the zouk in Brazil is often slow and sensual, enabling many steps and turns. Rio-style Zouk edit: Rio-style Zouk (also called Carioca Lambada meaning Rio-style Lambada), was first developed in Rio de Janeiro. It is mainly danced in Brazil (Rio and Brasília), Australia, The Netherlands, Spain and some other European countries. It uses a modified, slower, smoother, even more sensual version of the lambada and is typically danced on zouk style music. In the Netherlands this dance style goes under the name of zouk love.

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