RFI: Brazilian samba

This Alcione album rules, highly recommended:

https://www.discogs.com/Alcione-A-Voz-Do-Samba/master/564264

so I have a question: I recently rediscovered this South African house jam from 2016, and I love it, but... the chant/melody (and not just that) is totally samba and sounds very familiar as well (unless it's just the memory from the first times I heard it lol) - it must be copied or sampled from something Brazilian, no? anybody have any ideas? there's no clues at all in the comments in the various YouTubes for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hQwvKjjU7w
DJ Clock ft. Chicco Twala • Saba Kufa

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still hoping someone can help me out here

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really cool song! it does sound sort of familiar in a Carnival / Jorge Ben way, but I'm not sure it's a direct lift

I’ll take your word for it! by “Carnival” do you mean Brazilian carnaval music in general or does it refer to a specific record?

Oh yeah sorry just carnaval in general. That said, I am not an expert in Brazilian music beyond the "big names" so I might be way off here!

All I can tell you is that chant is not in Portuguese - but it may have been translated by the artist, or the presumable Brazilian original might be using a different language.

The main lyrics, such as they are (just two lines), are in Zulu. The intertwining background vocal line is possibly in Shona (that is, some YouTube commenter was speculating that it might be). The most samba-like part is the “oh lé lé lé, oh-lé-lé-lé” chant, which sounds wordless to me.
Of course, any of these parts might have a Brazilian source, but I’m thinking of that chant in particular.

So the mystery continues (if there is one at all), but I’ve been listening to a lot of Jorge Ben as a result of this, so this query already has had at least one happy outcome!

Diogo Nogueira, who I mentioned in 2012 for his dc area gig is back in Dc itself this Friday September 15 at Karma. He’s good but maybe not great