![]() ![]() It was also featured on the soundtrack of the EA Sports video game 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. ![]() ![]() The song was recorded under the title "Wavin' Flag (The Celebration Mix)". This version was chosen as an official song of Coca-Cola for their 2010 FIFA World Cup program. Despite the fact that he could not yet speak the language, the young K'naan taught himself hip hop and rap diction, copying the lyrics and style phonetically. There, K'naan began learning English, partly by listening to hip hop albums by artists like Nas and Rakim. When he was 13, K'naan, his mother, and his three siblings, older brother, Liban, and younger sisters Naciimo, Sagal were able to leave their homeland and join relatives in New York City, where they stayed briefly before moving to Canada, to the Toronto neighbourhood of Rexdale, where there was a large Somali community and his family still resides. He spent the early years of his life listening to the hip-hop records sent to him from America by his father, who had left Somalia earlier. He is Muslim, and his name, Keinan, means "traveler" in the Somali language. K'naan's grandfather, Haji Mohammad, was a poet. His aunt, Magool, was one of Somalia's most famous singers. Please comment, rate, subscribe and add to your favourites if you like.īorn in Somalia, K'naan spent his childhood in Mogadishu and lived there during the Somali Civil War, which began in 1991. ![]()
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