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The Music

Brazilian Zouk grew out of the Lambada and Caribbean zouk, and today is danced to a wide range of music — a placeholder overview to expand.

Roots

The dance takes its name from zouk, the Caribbean genre from the French Antilles, by way of Lambada in 1980s–90s Brazil.

What people dance to today

Modern Zouk floors span zouk-love, R&B and pop remixes, ghettozouk, and neo-zouk — anything with the right pulse and space to breathe.