Equator Records or Equator Sound Studios was originally known as East African Records, owned by Afcot Ltd, situated in Nairobi, Kenya. In 1960, Charles Worrod launched Equator Sound Studios Ltd. along with the Equator Sound Band. Legendary Kenyan musician Fadhili Williams became a member of the band alongside Adolf Banyoro, Peter Tsotsi, Nashil Pichen, Charles Ssongo, Gabriel Omolo, and Daudi Kabaka. Categories: Africa geography stubs | Capitals in Africa | Kenya ... Kenya (pronounced as KEN-ya) is a country of East Africa, bordering Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and the Indian Ocean. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Fadhili and the Jambo Boys Band recorded a number of songs with East African Records between 1959 and 1962. The other band members were Harrison William, Joseph Nazareth, Mumba Charo (Fadhili's brother), Nahshon Gandani, Samuel Lefondo and Sheila Monroe. 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Equator Sound Studios, under direction from Worrod at that point, marketed and produced Fadhili's world-famous Swahili love-ballad, Malaika, after Worrod realised that the original poorly-recorded Malaika could have international appeal. Swahili (also called Kiswahili; see Kiswahili for a discussion of the nomenclature) is an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa. ... Malaika, which is Swahili for angel, was composed by Fadhili Williams in 1960, and was originally recorded by The Jambo Boys, was later re-recorded at Equator Sound Studios (see Equator Records) and promoted to eventually becoming an internationally acclaimed song. ...

Malaika had initially been recorded by Jambo Boys, with Konde serving as the studio engineer.

Worrod, the man who created the "African Twist" and would have guided many more of the country’s musicians and songwriters to international fame, left Kenya in 1974 because the law barred him from engaging in the recording business unless he was a citizen. When he left, the recording and promotion of music in Kenya was thrown into disarray. After a while, Fadhili too left, for the USA, where he lived for 15 years. A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ... A songwriter is someone who writes either the lyrics or the music for songs. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Historically, the term business referred to activities or interests. ... Citizenship is membership in a political community (originally a city but now a state), and carries with it rights to political participation; a person having such membership is a citizen. ... The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii). ...

See also

• List of record labels