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Biography
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Jamhuri Jazz Band
Effective period / Period of releases: 1969 - 1971
Members: Professor Omari Shabani, George Peter Kinyonga, Wilson Peter Kinyonga, Elia John
Tanzanian group, founded in Tanga in the 1950s.Featured the Kinyonga brothers (Wilson Peter Kinyonga and George Peter Kinyonga) from 1966 to 1970 before they went on to form Arusha Jazz and Orchestra Simba Wanyika.
After they left, the group continued to record through to the late 1970s.