Axé music is a style of popular music which originated in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The word comes from a ritual greeting that means good vibration and is used in the Candomblé and Umbanda religions. Popular music, sometimes abbreviated pop music, is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are broadly popular. ... Salvador (in full, São Salvador da Baía de Todos os Santos, meaning Holy Savior of the Bay of All Saints) is a city on the northeast coast of Brazil and the capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia. ... Ilê Axé Iya Nassô Oká - Terreiro da Casa Branca Candomblé is an Afro_American religion practised chiefly in Brazil but also in adjacent countries. ... Originating in Brazil in the 1920s, Umbanda is a religion that blends Catholicism, Kardecist Spiritualism and Afro-Brazilian traditions. ...

The term axé began life as an insult, intended to point out the perceived pretentiousness of the genre. It was applied vaguely, however, and anything recorded in Salvador was appellated axé. Starting in about 1992 and peaking in 1998, axé became one of the most popular genres in the Brazilian music scene. 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

The root of axé is in guitarra baiana, a 1950s guitar style that used electric guitars to play the frevo from Pernambuco. This genre was purely instrumental, and remained so until the 1970s, when Moraes Moreira (of Novos Baianos) began singing. Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends Technology United States tests the first fusion bomb. ... An electric guitar is a type of guitar with a solid or semi-solid body that utilizes electromagnetic pickups to convert the vibration of the steel-cored strings into electrical current. ... Pernambuco is a state of Brazil, located in the Brazilian Northeast. ... Events and trends Although in the United States and in many other Western societies the 1970s are often seen as a period of transition between the turbulent 1960s and the more conservative 1980s and 1990s, many of the trends that are associated widely with the Sixties, from the Sexual Revolution...

Carnival bands like Filhos de Gandhi, Olodum and Muzenza then fused the electric frevo with maracatu and samba rhythms, African ijexá and Caribbean merengue. Olodum's samba-reggae fusion was a Bahian success in the 1980s, and was followed by deboche (debauchery), an electric frevo/ijexá fusion. Members of Olodum practising Olodum, founded in 1979, is a cultural group based in the black community of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. ... Maracatú is a term common to two distinct performance genres found in Pernambuco state in northeastern Brazil: maracatú nação and maracatú rural. ... Samba is the most famous of the various forms of music arising from the amalgam of African and Portuguese music in Brazil. ... Merengue can mean either: A style of music originating in the Dominican Republic; see merengue (music) A related style of dance; see merengue (dance) See also meringue, a type of dessert. ... Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ...

In 1992, axé entered the mainstream. Daniela Mercury's O Canto Da Cidade set the stage for the explosion of bands like Banda Cheiro de Amor, Banda Eva, Bandamel and Asa de Águia. Though axé was popular, it was not without detractors like Dorival Caymmi. 1995 saw the biggest commercial success to come out of Salvador, Gera Samba (later É o Tchan), who pioneered a sexy image and crossover appeal. 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Daniela Mercury (born Salvador, Bahia, 28 July 1965) is a Brazilian singer in the MPB and axé styles. ... Dorival Caymmi (born April 30, 1914 in Salvador, Bahia) is considered to be one to the most important songwriters in Brazilian popular music. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...