K'NAAN

K'Naan (real name Keinan Abdi Warsame) is a Somali-Canadian poet, rapper and musician. Winner of Juno Awards, Polaris Music Prize and BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music. The remix of his song "Wavin 'Flag" became the anthem of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. In Somali, the word k'naan means "traveler."

Poet, rapper and musician K'Naan was born on February 1, 1978 into a creative family in the capital of Somalia - the city of Mogadishu. His childhood was difficult because of the war in his homeland. But even then he finds solace in hip-hop music. Keinan moved to Canada with his parents as a teenager. His passion for rap grows more and more passionate, and eventually he drops out of school to devote all his time to music.