![]() ![]() This year, “Wavin’ Flag” got rearranged by K’naan, FIFA and Coca Cola for the dancey “Celebration Mix,” a South African drum-thumping, fist-pumping, everybody-jumping version with a video co-starring K’naan and Spanish pop singer David Bisbal.Īs for the lyrics, they’re more about the world coming together than a land coming apart.īut it’s the third version, the one to benefit victims of the devastating January earthquake in Haiti, the one recorded in Vancouver during the 2010 Olympic Games, the one that shot straight to No. The original was an evocative rap-meets-reggae-meets-R & B memoir of K’naan’s childhood in the streets of Mogadishu during the Somali civil war, a life he escaped for Toronto at age 13 on what was, reportedly, the last commercial flight out. ![]() (Watch a video of toddlers grooving to Wavin' Flag.) Now it’s not only steaming out of radios, YouTube and MP3 players, but it’s also pouring out of the mouths of babes.
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