The EVA (or group known as Banda EVA) is a band of Bahian axé music that has had great success during the 1990s, under the voice of Ivete Sangalo. After Sangalo left for a solo career, lead vocals were taken by Emanuelle Araújo, then Saulo Fernandes, and most recently Felipe Pezzoni. Banda EVA emerged from a carnaval troupe. At the end of the 1970s, a group of friends, members of the Marist College community of Salvador, met every week-end to chat and sing.