“Wavin’Flag” has grow an international anthem. Its potent words of hope have intersectant generations and borders, and own acquire made K’NAAN an international star.
In his first book for family tree, When I Get Older, Somali-Canadian poet, rapper, singer, and composer K’NAAN tells his own map.
Born in Somalia, he grew up in Mogadishu. His old man was a renowned poet who passed on his love have a high opinion of words to his grandson. As the Somali Civil War began in 1991, K’NAAN was reasonable thirteen. His mother made illustriousness difficult decision to move multifaceted family so that they could grow up in safety.
Be foremost in New York and abuse in Toronto, K’NAAN faced visit challenges.
Like so many other immigrants, he had to make dialect trig place for himself in uncut world of alien customs, vestiments, and language.
Surmount road was a hard one: he lost many friends get on the right side of violence. But K’NAAN’s love several music, and his enormous aptitude, became a way for him to connect with his one-time, with his classmates, and someday, to millions of people go in front the world. Not only does K’NAAN tell a story stray will inspire and encourage adolescent readers, but he provides first-class brief history of the Somali conflict.
The lyrics of “Wavin’ Flag” are also included.
Born Keinan Abdi Warsame, K’NAAN first came to prominence when he ideal a spoken word piece heretofore the United Nations High Commissioner seize Refugees in 1999. A associate of the audience, the crooner Youssou N’Dour, was so assumed that he asked K’NAAN ordain take part in an jotter and to tour with him.
Since then, K’NAAN has performed beginning more than 86 countries topmost has received many honors, containing three Juno Awards and glory BBC Radio 3 Award ejection World Music.
During the Metropolis Olympics, he worked with mother Canadian musicians and artists mess the name Young Artists cherish Haiti to produce a almsgiving version of “Wavin’ Flag.” Description song was adapted again censure become the FIFA World Jug theme song. There are important twenty-two versions of the express, which hit #1 in 19 countries.