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unusual facts about samba


Samba-Mbondoni

Samba-Mbondoni is a village on the island of Grande Comore in the Comoros.


Abbeyshrule Aerodrome

The Abbeyshrule assembly plant produces the popular Czech kit planes from Urban Air, called Samba and Lambada.

Alhaji Bai Modi Joof

Bai Modi was born on 15 December 1933 at Kuntaur (a Gambian town) to Ebrima Joof and Aji Anna Samba.

Almir Guineto

His records have a particular samba sound that became trademarked as Almir's, frequently with strong use of the banjo, and with Mauro Diniz often being responsible for the cavaquinho.

Ammaiyagaram

There are three seasons for agriculture in Ammaiyagaram – Kuruvai (June to September), Samba (August to January) and Thaladi (September, October to February, March).

Aquele Abraço

Among the cultural references in the lyrics are the fans of the Flamengo football team, the popular television personality Chacrinha, young girls of the favelas, the samba school Portela, and the Carnaval street parade Banda de Ipanema.

Aṣíkò

Much like the rhythm of James Brown identified him and his music; the samba rhythms identify the music of Olatunji.

Batucada

The song "The Obvious Child" from Paul Simon's album The Rhythm of the Saints is an example of the sound of the samba-Afro style, exemplified by the Bahian group Olodum.

Beth Carvalho

Her samba school is Mangueira, but that didn't stop her from recording dozens of songs from composers of Portela, the other great traditional samba school in Rio.

Billy Rich

As a session musician, Rich has gotten the chance to play different styles of music, including Reggae, Blues, Country Western, R&B, Jazz, Rock, Samba, Pop and Bluegrass.

Bindi Hindowa Samba

Bindi Hindowa Samba is a Sierra Leonean paramount chief of Bo District, one of the four districts that make up the Southern Province.

Clara Nunes

It was a remarkable achievement which helped to overturn the idea that women were unable to become big record sellers (in Brazil) and thereby stimulated other companies to invest in other female samba musicians, such as Alcione and Beth Carvalho.

Clementina de Jesus

Clementina de Jesus (Clementine of Jesus) was a Brazilian samba singer born in Valença, Brazil, on February 7, 1901 and died in Rio de Janeiro on July 19, 1987.

Dance India Dance

The show features a variety of Indian cultural and international dance styles ranging across a broad spectrum of classical, contemporary, Bollywood, hip-hop, jazz, Kalaripayattu, Salsa, Samba and musical theatre styles, amongst others, with many sub-genres within these categories represented.

Devin Del Do

Del Do grew up in Valencia, California, played for the West Valley Samba club team, and attended Hart High School where he was twice named to the All-Foothill League first team, and was his team's Most Valuable Player and Offensive Player of the Year as both a junior and senior.

Fala Mangueira!

The live album features several medleys and individual singles by five of the greatest traditional samba artists of the 1960s and '70s: Odete Amaral, Carlos Cachaça, Cartola, Clementina de Jesus, and Nelson Cavaquinho.

Fala Mangueira! is a 1968 tribute album to the Mangueira Samba School founded by Cartola.

Gilberto with Turrentine

Gilberto with Turrentine is an album by Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer Astrud Gilberto and American saxophonist Stanley Turrentine featuring performances recorded in 1971 released on the CTI label.

GRES Império Serrano

The Ala de Compositores (Ala of the Composers) of Império is one of the most respected, having in its history people such as Silas de Oliveira, Mano Décio, Aniceto do Império, Molequinho, Dona Ivone Lara (first woman to participate in te ala of the composers of the samba schools), Beto sem Braço, Aluizio Machado, and Arlindo Cruz.

GRES União da Ilha do Governador

( Today, União da Ilha do Governador Samba School has as one of its main partners Grupo Petrópolis, with Itaipava beer.

In Person at El Matador

# Black Orpheus Medley: Manhã de Carnaval/Batuque de Orfeu/Samba de Orfeu/A Felicidade (Luiz Bonfá & Antônio Maria/Rossini Pacheco/Luiz Bonfá & Antônio Maria/Antônio Carlos Jobim & Vinícius de Moraes)

José Carioca

José appears with Donald and the Aracuan Bird in the "Blame It on the Samba" segment of the 1948 anthology feature Melody Time.

Kassai and Leuk

The opening theme "Samba Et Leuk" is performed by the African musician Ismaël Lô.

Ldap admin

In addition to common browsing and editing functions, LDAP Admin provides a directory management functionality by supporting a number of application-specific LDAP objects such as Posix and Samba groups and accounts, Postfix objects and a number of Active Directory objects.

Leci Brandão

One of Leci Brandão's latest performances was in 2005 with Raça Brasileira: 20 Anos (DVD: 'Raca Brasileira', rated NR, one hour/2005) with many other Brazilian samba greats (i.e. Beth Carvalho, Arlindo Cruz, Almir Guineto, etc.).

Marisa Monte

She later sang, alongside Brazilian performers BNegão and Seu Jorge, the samba "Aquele Abraço", translated as "That embrace", closing Rio's presentation for the occasion while Pelé was revealed to be present at the ceremony, disguised as Rio's traditional "Malandro do Morro".

Matam, Senegal

Well-known people from the city include footballer Mamadou Niang, politician Samba Diouldé Thiam and writer Cheikh Hamidou Kane, the first mayor ISSA KANE and Hamidou Samba KASSE (known as El Hadji KASSE) philosopher, writer and journalist.

Matīss Akuraters

Akuraters spent three months in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, meeting great artists and contributing his percussion skills at local percussionists community authority- Jaguara, who is a percussionist of current samba king- Zeca Pagodinho.

Matt's Mood

Among the songs on the new album is "Ronnie's Samba": a collage of solo material by the late Ronnie Ross, a legendary baritone saxophonist, who also played on early Matt Bianco material, woven into a tribute to his immortal craft.

Monitorix

System services demand (including SSH, FTP, ProFTPD, Vsftpd, Pure-FTPd, Telnet, Samba, Fax, CUPS, Fail2ban, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, VirusMail and Spam, and supporting log files from xinetd, Sendmail, Postfix, Dovecot, UW-IMAP, Qpopper, HylaFAX, MailScanner and CommuniGate).

Nei Lopes

A professional composer since 1972, Nei Lopes became prominent especially through his partnership with Wilson Moreira and by their work, recorded by almost all interpreters of traditional samba.

Network-attached storage

They run Samba (an SMB daemon), NFS daemon, and FTP daemons which are freely available for those operating systems.

Roger Cram

At this event, Cram was joined by Glendene Grant, human trafficking victim Jessie Foster's mother; Kevin Bales, co-founder and president of Free the Slaves; Kate Todd, a singer-songwriter and actor; Janelle Belgrave of Samba Elégua Drummers and Peace Concept; Natasha Falle, a survivor of human trafficking; and Jeff Gunn, a guitarist.

Sacundin Ben Samba

Sacundin Ben Samba is the third album from Brazilian artist Jorge Ben, originally released in 1964.

Samba Purana

After the customary beginning in Chapter 1, the text consists the narrative of Krishna's son Samba's getting infected by leprosy, after being cursed by his father and consequently getting cured by worshipping Surya in the temple constructed by him in Mitravana on the banks of the Chandrabhaga.

Samba Squad

Samba Squad performed in City TV's 2008/2009 New Year's Eve live TV gala at Nathan Phillips Square, which included a collaboration with award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter Leslie Feist.

Sambha gompa

Kamtsang Dargye Choekhorling Monastery, known locally as Sambha (Samba, Sampa) gompa (goenpa), is situated in Mustang district, Tukuche Village development committee (VDC), in the Western Development Region, Nepal.

Sector7seven

The first of these was "Life Is Brighter Than Light", a track unlike their others in that it was rather slow, with an instrumental part resembling the 1998 hit "World Cup Samba" by Dario G.

Server Message Block

Andrew Tridgell started the development of Samba, a free-software re-implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol for Unix-like systems, in 1991.

Sirius Corporation Ltd

Sirius provide a full Enterprise Stack which can include, but is not limited to, products such as Asterisk (VoIP), JBoss (application server), Apache (web server), Squid (proxy), OGo/Scalix (groupware), Sendmail/Cyrus (email), Samba/CUPS (file & print), OpenLDAP (directory server), PostgreSQL (database), PostGIS (geographic information systems) and Linux (operating system).

SO Samba FC

The team's head coach is former Corinthians of São Paulo member Thiago Samba and their founder and general manager is Melissa Brandao.

Tetine

Later in 2001, Tetine is signed by avant-garde electronica artist Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner's UK imprint Sulphur Records and released their fifth album entitled Tetine vs Sophie Calle / Samba de Monalisa - an acclaimed electronica project made in collaboration with the French artist Sophie Calle.

Tony Holiday

In 2000, Tony Holiday's single "Tanze Samba mit Mir" was prominently featured in the Teddy Award-winning François Ozon directed film Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes (Water Drops on Burning Rocks), an adaptation of the play Tropfen auf heisse Steine by German filmmaker and dramatist Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Ugo Marotta

Aracy de Almeida - Samba é Aracy de Almeida (1966, Elenco/Universal Music) - Arranger, organ and piano

União Geral das Escolas de Samba do Brasil

However in the 1940s, the samba was already being stimulated by the national regime of Getúlio Vargas, but this fact did not impede that during the year of 1946 UGES and the PCB started getting closer.

Vajjala Shiva Kumar

He is the only son of Vajjala Samba Shiva Sharma and Radha Bai and was born and brought up in Vemulawada a temple town.


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