Peter Tsotsi

A founding person in the Equator Audio Music group, Peter Tsotsi joined up with with Adolf Banyoro, Nashil Pichen, Charles Ssongo, Gabriel Omolo, Daudi Kabaka, and Fadhili Williams Mdawida to make a number of the liveliest dance music in East African through the ’60s. The group’s many strikes, sung in the Kiswahili vocabulary, included “Ewe Malaika,” “Zailai Zailai,” “Taxi cab Drivers,” “Jifunze mengi Dunia,” “Pete ni Alama,” “Unavyosema,” and “Wewe Jane.” The band’s discovery to a global market was a remake of “Malaika,” which Fadhili acquired previously recorded along with his music group, the Jambo Children Band.