Zouk-love

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'Bold text'Zouk-love is a genre of popular French West Indian music. It is a slower and more dramatic derivative of zouk, and is similar to the African kizomba. Popular performers include West Indian like Edith Lefel and Gilles Floro, Africans like Philipe Monteiro and the Dutch-based Suzanna Lubrano and Gil Semedo.

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De Ledesma, Charles and Gene Scaramuzzo (2000). "Dance-Funk Creole-Style", in Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.): World Music, Vol. 2: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific. Rough Guides, 289-303. ISBN 1-85828-636-0.

Actually no,kizomba is similar to zouk not the other way round. zouk actually came first then kizomba.