A truck with giant speakers and a platform where musicians play songs of local genres such as Axé music, Samba-reggae and Arrocha, is driven with the following crowd both dancing and singing.

Ase, which is also spelled “ Axe ,” “ Axé ,” “ Ashe ,” or “ Ache ,” is the life-force that runs though all things, living and inanimate.

Samba Axé is a solo dance that started in 1992 during the Brazilian Carnival season in Bahia when the Axé rhythm replaced the Lambada.

Several Axé music groups such as " É o Tchan " have as part of their marketing strategy to always release a choreography together with every one of their songs ; therefore, Samba Axé is an ever-changing kind of dance with no commitment to maintaining any formal set of steps or routines ( there's actually no such a thing as a basic step in Samba Axé.

Axé Bahia is a six-member eurodance / axé music group from Brazil, who achieved fame in South America with their single " Beijo na Boca ", particularly the Spanish-language version, " Beso en la Boca ".

Axé is not exactly about a style or musical movement, but rather about a useful brand name given to artists from Salvador who made music upon northeastern Brazilian, Caribbean and African rhythms with a pop-rock twist, which helped them take over the Brazilian hit parades since 1992.

Axé is a ritual greeting used in Candomblé and Umbanda religions, and means " good vibration.

He resented the fact that he was himself poor, since it is understood in the show that, although he learned to love his wife over time, he married for money and was surprised by the sudden impoverishment of his wife's mother, on whom he picked regularly, often making up stories of her being drunk and naked on the building's rooftop while singing the refrain of " Cara Caramba, Sou Camaleão ", a song by the Axé music band Chiclete com Banana.

Chiclete com Banana ( Portuguese for Chewing gum with Banana ) is an Axé music band, currently consisting of Bell Marques, Wadinho Marques, Rey, Waltinho Cruz, Deny and Lelo.

Chiclete com Banana released its first album, called " Traz os montes ", in 1982, and is regarded as one of the most successful bands of the Axé music genre in Brazil.

The drum is most often found in Bahia, originating in Salvador, Bahia, and is used mainly to play Axé and Samba-reggae.

Axé was officially labeled after Luiz Caldas released his album Magia in 1985 and got super popular after Daniela Mercury became a big hit with her album so called " O Canto da Cidade ".

* Axé music, a form of Brazilian popular music

This group created the most sexual dance of the Pagode during the 1990s, mixing a lot of Axé music in it, and nowadays are satirized as a synonym of bad music.

Salvador has large Carnival celebrations, including the Axé, typical Bahia music.

* Axé music

# redirect Axé music

The typical genres of music of Brazilian carnival are, in Rio de Janeiro ( and Southeast Region in general ): the samba-enredo, the samba de bloco, the samba de embalo and the marchinha ; in Pernambuco and Bahia ( and Northeast Region in general ) the main genres are: the frevo, the maracatu, the samba-reggae and Axé music.

" The word music was attached to Axé, used as slang within the local music biz, by a journalist who intended to create a derogatory term for the pretentious dance-driven style.

Independência already served as a venue for music festivals, such as Pop Rock Brazil and the Axé Brazil.

* A Short History Axé Music in Salvador, Bahia

As singer Daniela Mercury began her rise to stardom in Rio and São Paulo, anything coming from Salvador would be labeled Axé Music.

Later some Axé groups from Bahia came to play in the state every carnival season.

Tested within the height of Carnival heat, Axé songs have been commercially successful in Brazil throughout the past decade.

Some groups like Patrulha do Samba and Harmonia do Samba, also mixed in a bit of Axé.

Ivete Sangalo sings Axé in Florianópolis.

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