K'NAAN
(*1978)
K'NAAN [Born: Keinan Abdi Warsame in Somalia in 1978] Born in Somalia, K'naan spent his childhood in Mogadishu. His aunt, Magool, was one of Somalia's most famous singers while K'naan's grandfather, Haji Mohammad, was a poet. He spent his early childhood listening to the hip-hop records sent to him from America by his father, who had left Somalia to establish a new refuge for the family. The Somali Civil War broke out in 1991 and so, at the age of 13, K'naan, his mother, and his three siblings…