K'NAAN

Influenced by: Rakim, Bob Marley

Genre: Hip-Hop

Biography: Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, just as the civil unrest that rocked the country was beginning, rapper K'NAAN spent the early ...

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Jun 17 2009 8:20AM by Jonathan Dekel

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Spinner: Canada's biggest music festival is about to take over downtown Toronto's music venues, bars, theatres, squares and curfews for five ear-blasted and booze-drenched days and nights. But with over 500 bands and 100,000 people expected, North by ... Read more

 
Jun 15 2009 14:00PM by Joshua Ostroff

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Spinner: For the past few months, Canada's music critics, bloggers and broadcasters have been debating with themselves and each other to pick the past year's (June 1, 2008 to May 31, 2009) best album for the annual Polaris Music Prize. Past winners of this ... Read more

 
May 30 2008 11:30AM by Georgia Kral

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The Boombox Music Blog: "I'm a circumstantial musician," newcomer K'Naan tells the Boombox about how he started making music. "Mainly I am trying to console myself from past ordeals...difficult experiences." The emcee came to the United States from Somalia when he was 14 ... Read more

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