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Somalia

Somalia
[2009]
Nell'album "Troubadour"
Testo trovato su Genius

In realtà Soomaaliya, che Somalia è italianizzazione coloniale...
La la la la la
(Continues)
Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2021/11/16 - 20:26
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Hoobaale

Hoobaale
[2008]
Lyrics by Keinan Abdi Warsame
Music: Traditional
Album: The Dusty Foot Philosopher (Re-Issue: Deluxe Edition)

With traditional sounds of Somalian strings and drums "Hoobaale" begins with one of the best lines from K'naan to sum up the whole album as he says: "How come they fix the bridge only after somebody has fallen?"
(Repeat:)
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2013/9/29 - 14:51
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With God on Our Side

With God on Our Side
[2012]
Lyrics by Keinan Abdi Warsame
Music by Keinan Abdi Warsame and Robert Allen Zimmerman
Album: Chimes of Freedom: Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International (DISC 3)

K'naan, born Keinan Abdi Warsame in 1978, is an amazingly talented Somali-Canadian poet, rapper, singer, songwriter and instrumentalist now based in Toronto, after surviving a harrowing upbringing in war-torn Somalia. He recorded this "cover" version of Bob Dylan's "With God on Our Side", for a compilation album that came out earlier in 2012, Chimes Of Freedom: The Songs Of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years Of Amnesty International. K'naan's version of the song with substantially new lyrics, is fantastic, with his own desperate wartime childhood history woven into it..
Designed as a celebration for Amnesty International's 50th Anniversary, Chimes of Freedom is the mother of all tribute albums: a four-disc salute to Bob Dylan that runs some 76 songs performed by singers from all corners of the globe..
It's a movie and the whole world is viewing it
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2013/8/4 - 11:05
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Fatima

Fatima
[2009]
Lyrics & Music by Keinan Abdi Warsame
Album: Troubadour

A very sad moving story:
This song is about a lost love. When K'naan was a teenager (back in Somalia) fell in love with a girl named Fatima.
However, the girl was sold by her parents.. And then she WAS KILLED in the Somali civil war

"In 2008, with a recording budget, I went on my own to Jamaica, to Bob Marley's old studio, and sang of a lovely, doomed young friend:

«Fatima, I'm in America, I make rhymes and I make 'em delicate, you would have liked the parks in Connecticut... Damn you shooter, damn you the building, whose walls hid the blood she was spilling, damn you country so good at killing, damn you feeling, for persevering».

That was my truest voice – my continent's angst in a personal story. When I sang, my audience wouldn't just hear music; they would see geography. And yes, it made me well known.."
Picture the morning, taste and devour,
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2013/5/5 - 09:15




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