K'Naan was born on May 30, 1978 in Mogadishu, Somalia.
[on writing 'Maanokobiyo', his proposed film about war-torn Somalia] I'm really genuinely sleepless ...Show more »
[on writing 'Maanokobiyo', his proposed film about war-torn Somalia] I'm really genuinely sleepless from curiosity. I don't know how that all comes together, and I'm like that about music also. I get obsessed over work, over the idea of a song or the feeling of a song or something I have to do when I get to the studio. But I always wonder how what's in my head, the song in my head, and now in this case the film in my head, will look like. There are certain stories that are best suited for a visual medium, and so it's not that I would like to be a filmmaker. It's just that I have a film to make. Show less «