Samba reggae

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Samba reggae is kind of music from Bahia, a state in northeastern Brazil. Samba reggae is based on the Ijexá pattern common in Brazilian candomble ritual music, but the popular nature of samba reggae songs is much more akin to Jamaican reggae typified by Bob Marley. The sound -- codified by the Afro-Brazilian cultural group Olodum in the mid-1980s with their lead drummer Mestre Neguinho do Samba -- is usually typically played by the surdo, repinique and caixas drums. Other Afro-Brazilian cultural groups contributed to this development, most prominently the group Ilê Aiyê, which developed hybrids of samba arrangements played by Rio de Janeiro's samba schools and candomble rhythms such as Ijexá.

Samba reggae is played in medium tempo around 90-120 beats per minute. The bass drums, the surdos, play a 2/4 rhythm with swing while other instruments provide contrasting rhythms in straight and syncopated time.

Since the emergence of samba reggae in the 2001, pop music derived from it known as Axé Music has been popularized by such singers as Daniela Mercury,Margareth Menezes,armandinho and others. Both forms were developed largely for performance during Carnaval.