Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Man Behind the FIFA 10 World Cup Anthem - K'Naan



" All Somalis know that gangsterism isn't to brag about. The kids that I was growing up with [in Rexdale] would wear baggy [track] suit pants, and a little jacket from Zellers or something, and they'd walk into school, and all the cool kids would be like, 'Ah, man, look at these Somalis. Yo, you're a punk!' And the other kid won't say nothing, but that kid, probably, has killed fifteen people. "


Born in MogadishuSomalia, K'naan spent his childhood in Mogadishu and lived there during the Somali Civil War, which began in 1991. His aunt, Magool, was one of Somalia's most famous singers. K'naan's grandfather, Haji Mohamed, was a poet. He is Muslim, and his name, Keinan, means "traveler" in the Somali language.


He has already won the Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year, and was nominated for the 2006 Polaris Music Prize.He also won the BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music in the newcomer category for 2007.


K'naan won the 2010 Juno Awards for Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year.


K'NAAN spent the early years of his life trying to avoid death and listening to the hip-hop records sent to him from America by his father, who had left Somalia earlier. When K'NAAN (whose name means "traveler" in Somali) was 13, he, his mother, and his two siblings were able to leave their homeland and join relatives in Harlem, where they stayed briefly before moving to Rexdale, Ontario, where there was a large Somali community.


 As soon as his English started improving, he began rapping, and in tenth grade he dropped out of school and traveled around North America for two years, performing occasionally. Through his friendship with Sol Guy, part of promotion team Direct Current Media, K'NAAN was able to perform at the United Nations' 50th anniversary concert in 1999, held in Geneva, where he used his platform to publicly criticize the United Nations' handling of the Somali crisis in the 1990s


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. In 2002, he met Jarvis Church, part of the Track and Field Productions team that helped propel Nelly Furtado to fame, a connection that eventually led to a record. The Dusty Foot Philosopher came out in Canada in 2005, and was followed with tour spots with Mos Def and Talib Kweli, as well as a performance at Live 8. In 2007 the live album On the Road appeared and then, two years later, the album Troubadour became K'NAAN's first for the major label A&M.


Atleast, some one is trying to prove his point not through Gusn, but through Melody and Peace !!

" K'Naan "

Saturday, May 8, 2010

404 Not Found - Ironical

Recently I was just wondering, if the Great Developer, one responsible for my thread being still in active state in Earth's Environment, knows about the 404 error code or not. Cause many times I have found myself in situations where I just don't know how to find a few things.

Take for example Silence / Peace . Ever wondered that humans can not create silence or peace. Its just that they can reduce the noise that leads to development of silence, but we just cant create silence just like the way we can produce noise.
Same goes for Darkness. Darkness is something that is caused by the absence of light, and we just don't know how to create darkness.

But as I see it, these are the things that each one of needs at some point of our life, at least I do. So why did this GOD guy deprived us of access right to these things ?
Not fair, not at all !! :(