Pimba

Pimba^[1] is an umbrella term for Portuguese types or genres of music with an uptempo style and/or folk song features, corny romantic or saucy and vulgar lyrics, which was often associated with poorly educated public from rural areas and suburban poor or working-class neighbourhoods, as well as with Portuguese economic migrants living abroad who spend their holidays in their ancestors' localities across the Portuguese countryside.^[2][3][4] The Portuguese word pimba by itself means a quick, unexpected event or the end of an action, and is also a slang code word for having any type of sexual pleasure with another person.^[5] A loose translation could be the English word bang^[6] when used to express an act of sexual intercourse or the expression "wham!".^[7] In the context of Portuguese music, the genre was christened Pimba after Emanuel's 1995 single called Pimba Pimba.^[8]