K'naan's music has featured in several video games such as Madden NFL 09 (with his song "ABC's") and FIFA 06 (with his song "Soobax"). The album's first single, "ABC's", was released in late 2008. His second studio album, Troubadour, was released on 24 February 2009 on A&M/Octone Records, and distributed through Universal Music Group worldwide. This was his first appearance on American television. K'naan rose to mainstream popularity by participating in the 2008 BET Awards Cypher. K'naan released The Dusty Foot on the Road, a collection of recordings made during his world tour on Wrasse Records. He also collaborated with Damian Marley on the " Welcome to Jamrock" touring session. K'naan toured and collaborated with artists like Nelly Furtado, Mos Def, will.i.am, The Roots, Dead Prez, and Pharoahe Monch on tours such as Live 8 and Breedlove Odyssey. The Dusty Foot Philosopher was re-released and repackaged as a "Deluxe Edition" featuring new mixes and a bonus DVD in the United States (and various international territories) by the emerging media company and record label iM (Interdependent Media, Inc.) in 2008. It also won the BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music in the newcomer category for 2007. In 2006, it won the Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year, and was nominated for the 2006 Polaris Music Prize. It also helped him meet Canadian producer Brian West and Jarvis Church and his Track & Field team in 2002, who produced his debut album The Dusty Foot Philosopher, which was released in 2005 to critical acclaim. This project led to his work at other UN events, as well as the Montreal Jazz Festival and the Halifax Pop Explosion. One of the audience members, Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour, was so impressed by the young MC's performance and courage that he invited him to contribute to his 2001 album Building Bridges, a project through which K'naan was able to tour the world. K'naan became a friend and associate of Canadian promoter Sol Guy, who helped him secure a speaking engagement before the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 1999, where K'naan performed a spoken word piece criticizing the UN for its failed peacekeeping missions to Somalia. The couple divorced before K'naan started touring for the 2010 FIFA World Cup with Coca-Cola. K'naan was married to Deqa, a pharmacy technician, with whom he has two sons, born in 20. While growing up in Toronto's Rexdale neighbourhood, K'naan lost many friends to murder, suicide, prison, and deportation. Despite the fact that he could not yet speak the language, he taught himself hip-hop and rap diction, copying the lyrics and style phonetically. In his new environment, K'naan began learning English, partly by listening to hip hop albums by artists like Nas and Rakim.
In 2006 K'naan went back to New York City where his father usually lives. They stayed in New York for half a year where K'naan's father settled before relocating to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, his family still resides there.
When he was 13, K'naan and his mother and two siblings, older brother Liban and younger sister Sagal, moved to the United States. These incidents and the general escalation in violence prompted his mother to seek a visa so that the family could join his father in New York. K'naan also narrowly escaped death one day at his school, when he mistook a grenade that he found in the dirt for a potato and threw it away just before it detonated. This changed following the start of the civil war, when at the age of 12, three of his friends were shot by an older adolescent gunman. K'naan's early years were idyllic and enveloped in poetry and song, with his aunt Magool often singing to him.
#Fifa world cup wavin flag song driver#
His father, Abdi, left earlier when he was still a boy to work as a taxi driver in New York City. His name, Keynaan ( / ˈ k eɪ n ɑː n/), means "traveller" in the Somali language. His grandfather was a famous poet, and his aunt Magool was a renowned singer. K'naan's family was from an artistic background. K'naan was born 16 April 1978 in Mogadishu, situated in the southeastern Banaadir province of Somalia to a Marehan Darood family.
0 kommentar(er)
