Safari Sound Band is a Kenyan hotel pop band. In over twenty years of activity, they were

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four times, and their recordings of Swahili classics such as "

Jambo Bwana "Jambo Bwana" (in Swahili "Hello Sir") is a Kenyan pop song also popular in Tanzania. It was first released in 1982 by Kenyan band Them Mushrooms, and later covered by a number of other groups and artists, including Mombasa Roots, Safari Sound Ban ...

" (published with title "Jambo, Jambo") and "

Malaika Malaika is a Swahili song written by Tanzanian musician Adam Salim in 1945. This song is possibly the most famous of all Swahili love songs in Tanzania, Kenya and the entire East Africa, as well as being one of the most widely known of all Swahi ...

" are well-known. They have published a number of CDs, featuring cover versions of African evergreens as well as other

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Swahili pop tracks. The band consists of six elements (guitar, keyboards, saxophone, bass, drums, and percussions). All the band members also sing.

Partial discography

* ''Images of Kenya'' (1995). * ''The Best of African Songs'' (1996, originally 1984). Track listing: "Jambo Jambo", "Pole Pole", "Nakupenda Wewe", "Music In Africa", "Coconut", "Kenya Safari", "Pole Musa", "Mombasa", "Lala Salama", "Karibuni Kenya", "Kilimanjaro", "Malaika", "Ahsante Sana", "Mama Sofia"Data on Sterns Music
/ref> * ''Mombasa Moon'' (1999). Tracks listing: "Love Peace & Happiness", "Jambo Jambo", "Chakacha", "Simba", "Pole Pole", "Welcome Home", "Kenya Safari", "Coconut", "Mombasa Moon", "Malaika", "Pole Musa", "Lala Salama" * ''East Coast Dreams'' (1999) * ''Mambo Jambo'' (ARC 2001). Track listing: " Jambo Jambo", "Simba", "Kala Mashaka", "Hinde", "Pole Pole", "Nakupenda Wewe", "Chakacha", "Binti", "Mamake Asiya", "Watoto", "Mambo Jambo", "Mama Sofia", "Pole Musa", "

References

External links

* Kenyan musical groups {{Kenya-stub