Also known as axe music, axé musica
thumb|Woman characterized as a "baiana", costume derived from connections to the predominant African culture in Bahia. |272x272pxAxé () is a popular music genre that originated in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in the 1980s, fusing different Afro-Caribbean genres, such as marcha, reggae, and calypso. It also includes influences of Brazilian music such as frevo, forró and carixada. The word Axé comes from the Yoruba term àṣẹ, meaning "soul, light, spirit or good vibrations". Axé is present in the Candomblé religion, as "the imagined spiritual power and energy bestowed upon practitioners by the pantheo
Key facts
- Music genre.name
- Axé
- Music genre.cultural_origins
- 1980s, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Instance of
- music genre
- Subclass of
- music of Brazil
- Country of origin
- Brazil
- Image
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- inception
- 1980-00-00
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