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Samba
Samba
Samba is a Brazilian dance and musical genre originating in Bahia and with its roots in Brazil and Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions. It is recognized around the world as a symbol of Brazil and the Brazilian Carnival...

is a genre of Afro-Brazilian
Afro-Brazilian
In Brazil, the term "preto" is one of the five categories used by the Brazilian Census, along with "branco" , "pardo" , "amarelo" and "indígena"...

 music and dance.

Samba may also mean:

Dance

  • Samba (Brazilian dance), a genre of Afro-Brazilian dance
  • Samba (ballroom dance), a ballroom dance
  • Samba de Gafieira
    Samba de Gafieira
    Samba de Gafieira is a partner dance to the Brazilian samba musical rhythms.Samba de Gafieira must be distinguished from the ballroom Samba, danced in International Latin and American Rhythm ballroom dance styles....

    , Brazilian ballroom samba

Companies

  • Samba Financial Group
    Samba Financial Group
    Samba Financial Group , is a large banking firm in Saudi Arabia. The combined institution had 66 branches in the Kingdom...

    , a banking firm in Saudi Arabia, formerly the Saudi American Bank

Games and sport

  • Samba de Amigo
    Samba de Amigo
    Samba de Amigo is a rhythm game originally developed by Sonic Team and released in 1999 by Sega in arcades, 2000 for the Dreamcast video game console, and developed by Gearbox Software and Escalation Studios in 2008 for the Wii. The player uses controllers shaped like maracas with the goal of...

    , a rhythm game developed by Sonic Team and released by Sega
  • Samba (shoe), a brand of indoor soccer shoe made by Adidas
  • Samba (card game), a variant of canasta
  • Salinas Valley Samba
    Salinas Valley Samba
    Salinas Valley Samba is an American soccer team based in Salinas, California, United States. Founded in 2004, the team plays in National Premier Soccer League , a national amateur league at the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Western Division.The team plays its home games in the...

    , a soccer team in the National Premier Soccer League

People

  • Martin-Paul Samba
    Martin-Paul Samba
    Martin-Paul Samba, born Mebenga m'Ebono , was a Bulu military officer during the Imperial German colonial period of Cameroon. M'Ebobo became a favourite of the German colonials during his upbringing in Kribi, a coastal settlement in southern Cameroon...

    , German collaborator and later rebel from Cameroon
  • Christopher Samba
    Christopher Samba
    Veijeany Christopher Samba , more commonly known as Christopher Samba, is a Congolese footballer who plays as a defender for Blackburn Rovers in the Premier League.-Sedan:...

    , Blackburn Rovers footballer

Places

  • Samba, Jammu
    Samba, Jammu
    See Samba for other meaningsSamba is a town in Samba district in the Indian state Jammu and Kashmir. Before the formation of Samba district, this town was part of Jammu district...

    , a town in Jammu and Kashmir, India
  • Samba district, a district in Jammu and Kashmir, India
  • Samba, Angola
    Samba, Angola
    Samba is a municipality in Luanda Province, Angola....

    , a municipality in Luanda Province, Angola
  • Samba Department
    Samba Department
    Samba is a department or commune of Passoré Province in north central Burkina Faso. Its capital lies at the town of Samba....

    , Burkina Faso
  • Samba, Burkina Faso, Samba Department
    Samba Department
    Samba is a department or commune of Passoré Province in north central Burkina Faso. Its capital lies at the town of Samba....

    , Burkina Faso

Religion

  • Samba Siva, Hindu Vedic God and Shiva
    Shiva
    Shiva is a major Hindu deity, and is the destroyer god or transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. God Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that happens in the world and is the main aspect of life. Yet one with great power lives a life of a...

    's wife
  • Samba (Krishna's son)
    Samba (Krishna's son)
    Samba born to Lord Krishna and Jambavati. Samba is very Handsome, dearest and notorious son of lord Krishna. Samba does many unbearable things which leads whole yadu dynasty to an end.-Krishna wants to have Son Like Lord Shiva:...

    , Eldest son of Lord Krishna

Software

  • Samba (software)
    Samba (software)
    Samba is a free software re-implementation, originally developed by Andrew Tridgell, of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol. As of version 3, Samba provides file and print services for various Microsoft Windows clients and can integrate with a Windows Server domain, either as a Primary Domain...

    , cross-platform network sharing files and printers
    • Samba TNG, a lite portable version of Samba
  • MacWWW
    MacWWW
    MacWWW, also known as Samba, is an early minimalist web browser from 1992 meant to run on Macintosh computers. It was the first web browser for the Mac OS platform, and the first for any non-Unix operating system. MacWWW tries to emulate the design of WorldWideWeb. Unlike modern browsers it opens...

    , also known as Samba, an early Macintosh Web browser

Other

  • "Samba" (song)
    Samba (song)
    "Samba" is a song recorded by Ricky Martin for the Brazilian edition of his album, Música + Alma + Sexo . It features vocals by Brazilian singer, Claudia Leitte. "Samba" was released as a promotional single exclusively in Brazil...

    , a 2011 song by Ricky Martin
    Ricky Martin
    Enrique "Ricky" Martín Morales , better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican and Spanish pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.During his career he has sold more than 60 million album copies worldwide...

     featuring Claudia Leitte
    Cláudia Leitte
    Cláudia Cristina Leite Inácio, known as Claudia Leitte is a Brazilian axé singer, and former vocalist of the group Babado Novo. Since she is one of the most popular axé singers in Brazil, she hosted MTV Brasil's Video Music Brasil 2007, in which she had been nominated as best singer in that award...

  • Samba De Janeiro, a 1997 song by Bellini
    Paffendorf
    Paffendorf, also known as Bellini, is a dance project from Cologne, Germany. The project consists of Ramon Zenker, also producer of Fragma, Gottfried Engels, Nicolas Valli and Sven Thiel, who also represents Paffendorf as a DJ act...

  • Samba (film)
    Samba (film)
    Samba is a 2004 Telugu film directed by V.V. Vinayak. The movie stars Jr. NTR, Bhoomika Chawla, Genelia D'Souza, and Prakash Raj. The movie deals with how important education is to kids.- Plot :...

    , a 2004 Telugu-language Indian film
  • Samba (rice)
    Samba (rice)
    Samba is a variety of rice grown in Sri Lanka, and has a small ovular grain, compared to the long grain of Indian basmati rice.Samba rice has a distinct taste and can be described as having a more 'starchy' or 'corny' flavour, and thus is an acquired taste preferred mainly by the locals of the...

    , a variety of rice found in Sri Lanka
  • Samba spy scandal
    Samba spy scandal
    The Samba military spy scandal, was one of the major event in Indo-Pakistani relations, and a major military scandal reported at the end of 1970s. The Indian Army's directorate for Intelligence led the arrests of 168 active duty officers and personnel on suspicion of working for the Military...

    , a spy scandal in Samba, Jammu, India in the 1970s
  • Samba (bus)
    Samba (bus)
    The term Samba in VW circles refers to a specific model of the Type 2 bus which was manufactured with the highest trim level available. A Samba is a Standard microbus with additions that include trim strips along the beltline and a dash clock. They were marketed for touring the Alps, as they had...

    , a name for one variation of the Volkswagen Type 2
  • One of three flavors named after dances (Rumba, Samba, Tango) of Rumba Juice energy drink distributed by Hansen Beverage Company
  • Samba (satellite), also known as Cluster 3, an ESA satellite
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