Axé Bahia
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Axé Bahia is a six-member Eurodance
Eurodance
Eurodance is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s or early 1990s primarily in Europe. It combines many elements from House, Techno, Hi-NRG and especially Italo-Disco...

/axé music
Axé music
Axé is a popular music genre originating in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil approximately in 1986, fusing different Afro-Caribbean genres, such as Marcha, Reggae, and Calypso. It also includes influences of Afro-Brazilian music such as Frevo, Forró and Carixada. The most important creator of this music...

 group from Brazil
Brazil
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, who achieved fame in South America
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 with their single "Beijo na Boca", particularly the Spanish-language version, "Beso en la Boca".
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Axé Bahia began its quest for fame in the late 1990s. Based in Brazil
Brazil
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, the group was originally made up of Flaviana Seeling, Jeferson Fabiano Barbosa, Jociney Barbosa, Thalyta, Amanda, and Rodrigo. The group, headed by Flaviana Seeling, was discovered by a Chile
Chile
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an businessman who saw some of its members dancing at a resort.

The group headed to Chile
Chile
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 to test their luck and take their shot at fame in 2001. Shortly after arriving to Chile, three of the group’s members, Thalyta, Amanda, and Rodrigo, decided to head back to Brazil. The group in Chile
Chile
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 decided to search for two more members and found Francini Contin do Amaral and Bruno Alexandre Lazzaretti. Flaviana Seeling, Jeferson Fabiano Barbosa, Jociney Barbosa, Francini Contin do Amaral, and Bruno Alexandre Lazzaretti are the five members that have performed the majority of the group’s songs and dances, and is the group best known as Axé Bahia. When Flaviana Seeling got pregnant in 2003, the group added a sixth member, Brenda, who replaced Seeling during her pregnancy. Afterward, Brenda started her own group, Exporto Brasil. Axé Bahia, throughout its ongoing change in membership, has worked in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

, Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

, El Salvador
El Salvador
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 (Canal 6), Mexico City
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 and Peru
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, to name a few places. The group had to learn Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 to be able to record outside of Brazil. This paid off, and they sold thousands of copies of their two albums throughout Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

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The membership of Axé Bahia, changed again in 2006, moving back to a sextet
Sextet
A sextet is a formation containing exactly six members. It is commonly associated with vocal or musical instrument groups, but can be applied to any situation where six similar or related objects are considered a single unit....

. The current members are Flaviana Seeling, Jeferson Fabiano Barbosa, Jociney Barbosa, and new members, Cleverson Leandro Ribeiro, Meire Guimaraes de Carvalho, and Gisele Salardi. In 2006, Axé Bahia, along with adding three new members, created Axé Bahia Company, a dance school. Axé Bahia is most famous for its songs "Beijo Na Boca" (Spanish: "Beso en la Boca"), and "Tudo Bem".

"H Bahía" is a spin-off group from Axé Bahía.

Discography

  • 2002: Tudo bem
  • 2002: Tudo bem 2, o ritmo continua
  • 2003: Vuelve la onda del verano
  • 2005: Positivo


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