Biography

Banda Calypso is a Brazilian band of calipso and brega pop, with influences of regional rhythms of the state of origin, formed in Belém, Brazil in 1999 by singer and guitarist Joelma Mendes and producer Cledivan Almeida Farias, known as Chimbinha. Early disclosure of the work was restricted only to the North and Northeast Brazil. The band is now enjoying success in Brazil and begins to establish his career abroad with tours to the United States, Europe and Angola.

The band presents an engaging and contagious rhythm, known as brega pop or calipso. Many confuse the pace calipso to forro, however the similarities are just awesome and the content caliente dance, as the calipso is a rhythm totally unlike anything we have seen, is actually a mixture of various rhythms and roots of paraenses and cumbia, merengue and carimbo.

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