 Economic reports show that the festival has a large impact at Salvador’s local economy.In 1950, Adolfo Dodô Nascimento and Osmar Álvares Macêdo, better known as Dodô and Osmar created the Fobica, an open float adapted for musical presentations, and the trio elétrico was born.By 1952, the term trio elétrico had become generic, in reference to a truck or bus carrying musicians around during Bahian carnival.