
16:30 - 17:30
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world.
![]() 听 ![]() WINNER K'NAAN (SOMALIA) ![]() Draped in the cornflower blue Somali flag and flanked by his djembe player and guitarist, K鈥橬aan Warsame is not your average hip hop artist. 鈥楪angsta鈥 poses and bling are just not his thing. Even the samples sound organic. His thin frame is lost in elegantly bohemian threads and with his haystack-shaped hat crammed over a burgeoning Afro, he looks like a youthful Sly Stone and sounds not unlike Eminem once did. But the words he raps and sings mark him out as a proverbial 鈥榖rother from another planet鈥. As he declares on his 2005 debut The Dusty Foot Philosopher, 鈥淚t鈥檚 better to light a candle than to curse the dark.鈥 That kind of optimistic attitude has taken him a long way from his roots, growing up in a tough neighbourhood of Mogadishu known as the River of Blood, where he learnt to fire a gun at the age of eight. As the civil war which began in 1988 slowly engulfed the entire country, he and his peers 鈥 three of whom were killed one night when he was eleven 鈥 were forced to live by their wits in a city where gun law was the only law. By this time, his father had already settled in the US and was sending his son musical Red Cross packages containing albums by the likes of Eric B & Rakim and Nas, thus sowing the seeds of his later career. Eventually his mum managed to get the rest of the family on the last flight out of Mogadishu in 1991 before turf wars closed the airport. They ended up in Toronto, where K鈥橬aan started writing raps as soon as he could speak English鈥 Fast forward to 2006. K鈥橬aan spends most of March touring Europe as support act for his friend Damian Marley. His charismatic presence graces DJ Charlie Gillett鈥檚 (hopefully not) last broadcast on 麻豆社 London 94.9 FM at Reading鈥檚 WOMAD festival. In October, his instantly recognisable cameo makes 鈥楽ilani鈥 a standout track on Ba Cissoko鈥檚 second album. And M-1 from underground US rappers Dead Prez joins him onstage at London鈥檚 Jazz Caf茅, previewing their forthcoming collaboration, 鈥楾ill We Get There鈥. You could say K鈥橬aan has 鈥榓rrived鈥. Jon Lusk Read other people's comments then听
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Amina from coventry
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Emmanuel from Paris, France
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Stephen Harvey; B.C., Canada
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Nadia, Toronto
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