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This video is one of the most popular videos on YouTube because it is full of raw emotion and heart. Kenny sings about war, drugs, and poverty from a first-hand perspective. Outside of his music, many people don't know that Knaan's mother was killed in the Somali Civil War when he was 12-years-old. In this song you can really hear how much anger and pain he has caused by colonialism over the years. Many people have received hope from listening to his music or reading his lyrics. One day after a live concert in Washington D.C. a man walked up to him and asked if he could have a copy of his CD. Knaan had given the man a copy backstage and had never seen him before. As more of an introvert, it was a completely different feeling for him to hear people ask for a piece of his work. On December 12, 1995, Knaan was born in Somalia as Abdullahi Dawud Hassan. He was born on December 12, 1995 to Halima Osman Haji Dabah and Ahmed Mohamed Hassan. In 1992 he moved from Somalia with his family as refugees. After living in Kenya as refugees, they settled in Canada as permanent residents. Then in 2002, they moved to the United States. Today, he lives in New York City. When Knaan was 5-years-old his family moved to Canada after the Somali Civil War. When he was 12-years-old his mother was killed in Somalia following a car bomb explosion by Al-Shabaab. There are many instances when Knaan expresses how much he loves his mother in his music, but this song is one of the most emotional when describing what happened when she died to him at that age. Knaan started to write his first song around the same time that he realized that his mother had died. It was a tribute to her memory called "Mogadishu, My Mother." He soon after began writing more songs about Somalia, because at times it felt like Somalia was in his heart. But when he moved to the United States in 2007, he started writing about different things including life in America and other cultures in which people live. He made this choice after realizing that he needed to express himself differently in America than he did when living in Somalia. When Knaan was 17-years-old, he started playing guitar and singing gospel songs at churches. After that he began doing music with local artists and then recorded covers of popular American rap songs in Canada. In 1998, Knaan was in a hip-hop/reggae band called Inner Peace. In 2000, they released a single called "Somalia, Africa" to help raise awareness of the Somali Civil War. In 2006 they released a second single called "Somalia, Africa Part 2." In summer of 2004 he did his first US solo tour where he did ten shows in ten days from California to New York. In the summer of 2005 he took part in the 12 city 60-show World Series of Rock Tour with Linkin Park, Snoop Dogg and Method Man. cfa1e77820
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