MESTRE - BIMBA
Quem foi teu mestre
Includes English Translation and Audio
Menino quem foi teu mestre
Mestre foi Salomão
Discípulo que aprendo
Mestre que dou lição
O Mestre quem me ensinou
No engenho da Conceição
A ele devo dinheiro
Saúde e obrigação
Segredo de São Cosme
Mas quem sabe é São Damião
Camará
Água de beber
Ei Aruandê
Aia camaradinha
Boy who was you master
Master was Solomon
Disciple who learn
Master that give lesson
The Master who taught me
Resourcefulness of Conception
To him I owe money
Health and obligation
Secret of St. Cosme
But who knows St. Damian
Friend
Water to drink
Ei Aruandê
Aia friend
Capenga ontem teve aqui
Capenga ontem teve aqui
Deu dois mil réis a papai
Três mil réis a mamãe
Café, açúcar a vovó
Deu dois vintém a mim
Sim senhor, meu camará
Quando eu entrar, você entra
Quando eu sair, você sai
Passar bem, passar mal
Mas tudo no mundo é passar
Haha
Água de beber
A cripple was here yesterday
Gave two thousand reis to Dad
Three thousand reis to Mom
Coffee, sugar to Grandma
Gave two twenties for me
Yes sir, my freind
When I enter, you enter
When I leave, you leave
Be well, be sick
But everything in life passing
Haha
Water to drink
Estava na minha casa
Tava na minha casa
Sem pensar, sem imaginar
Mandaram me chamar
Pra ajudar a vencer
Mas a guerra do Paraná
Haha
Água de beber
Ei Aruandê
Aia quer me vender
I was in my house
Without thinking, without imagining
They sent to call me
To help to beat
But it’s the war of Paraná
Haha
Water to drink
Ei Aruandê
Aia wants to sell me
Mestre Bimba -Criador da Capoeira Regional
Manoel dos Reis Machado was born on 23rd November 1899, in the neighbourhood of Brotas, Engenho Velho, in the city of Salvador, state of Bahia, the son of Luis Candido Machado, batuque artist, and Dona Maria Martinha do Bonfim. His capoeira name, Mestre Bimba, arose from a bet between his mother and the midwife as to whether he would be a boy or a girl. Being a boy, he had a Bimba, referring to his masculine genital organs.
Feeling that capoeira was losing its characteristics, he, possessing a creative spirit and great intelligence, decided to create a particular method, known today as Regional Baiana. Excellent practitioner of capoeria and intimate with Batuque (ancient art of fighting now disused), Mestre Bimba became the great name of capoeira, being the image itself of the fight.
In 1932 he founded the first specialised academy, in Engenho Velho do Brotas. At this time he also taught in people’s homes, in the ‘Roca do Lobo’. On 9th June 1937, he registered his Capoeira Scool with the Secretary of Education, Helth and Public Assistance, becoming the first authorised academy to lecture Capoeira. In 1939 he taught ‘regional’ in the army base of the CPOR. He established his second academy in 1942.
On 23rd July 1953, when the President Getulio Vargas watched in the Palacio da Aclamacao, together with Dr Regis Pachecho, then Govenor of Bahia, a presentation of capoeria regional by Mestre Bimba. The president confirmed that capoeira was a unique and truly national sport. He also administered his course in colleges and army and military police headquarters.