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Kizomba or Everybody needs Affection

Kizomba professors dancing at Latin Groove School in Canada Is Kizomba the sexiest dance ever? It is...but just outside Angola. Yes, because Kizomba is dance and a musical genre originating in Angola, a former Portuguese colony and it means "party" in Kimbundu, an Angolan language. Kizomba dance comes from the Angolan  Semba  and Kizomba music from the traditional Angolan Semba music with the French Antilles  Zouk . Why it became famous as "The Sexiest Dance Ever"? Traditionally, the dance involves two people in a close embrace with their torsos touching. One dancer - usually a man - leads and the other follows in a slow walk, stepping backwards and forwards, and drawing a circle with their movements. This is enhanced by movements with the hips. This is how it looks in Angola: Concurso de Kizomba em Angola 2016 Winners Semba and kizomba were danced in family settings, at large parties called kizombadas. Mothers can dance with their sons, a fat