Last Sunday, March 14, 2010, I came across this song featured in Youtube. It's called Wavin' Flag by K'NAAN. It more of a re-worked version of the original hit of K'NAAN. I was amazed and touch by the effort done by these artists who re-recorded this hit for the cause of Haiti devastation... And in my great opinion, it's fitting that K'NAAN's hit, Wavin' Flag, has become the theme song for Young Artists for Haiti.
On Thursday, February 18, 2010, more than 50 of the Canada's best and brightest artists -- from Justin Bieber to Metric to Drake -- gathered at The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, British Columbia to wave a flag for Haiti by recording a rendition of renowned hip hop artist K'naan's "Wavin' Flag". Produced by Canadian icon, Bob Ezrin, the song was reworked to include specific lyrics for Haiti and was released on March 12, 2010 with proceeds going to Free the Children, War Child Canada and World Vision Canada.
K'NAAN, whose music fuses together hip-hop, spoken word, rock and just an echo of pop, said he was "overcome by a kind of powerlessness" about the recent devastating events in Haiti. "You watch it on TV and you feel very, very small and you feel a little bit helpless. This is what happens to me. In fact, it makes (me) a little immobile — I can't really write when something like that happens," he said. Now 31, the Toronto resident is all too familiar with suffering. K'NAAN was born in Somalia, where he lived during that nation's civil war. He left with his family when he was 13 and stayed with relatives in New York before moving to Canada.
In 2009, he released his second album, the critically hailed Troubadour which featured Wavin' Flag. The artist is optimistic that music does have the power to reach people and creative positive change in the world.
Music Video, Lyrics and complete list of Artist are posted below...
LYRICS:
Young Artists For Haiti – Wavin’ Flag Lyrics
[All]
When I get older
I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom
Just like a wavin flag
[K'naan]
Born from a throne
Older than Rome
But violent prone
Poor people zone
[Nelly Furtado]
But it’s my home
All I have known
[Sam Roberts]
Where I got grown
but now its gone
[Avril Lavigne]
Out of the darkness
in came the carnage
threatening my very survival
[Pierre Bouvier of Simple Plan]
Fractured my streets
and broke all my dreams
[Tyler Connolly of Theory of a Deadman]
Feels like defeat to wretched retreat
[All]
So we strugglin’
[Kardinal Offishall]
Fighting to eat
[All]
And we wonderin’
[Kardinal Offishall]
If we’ll be free
[Jully Black]
We cannot wait for some faithful day
it’s too far away so right I’ll say
[All - Chorus]
When I get older
I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom
Just like a waving flag
(And then it goes back x3)
Ahhho ahhho ahhho
[Lights]
So many wars, settling scores
[Deryck Whibley of Sum 41]
All that we’ve been through
and now there is more
[Serena Ryder]
I hear them say love is the way
[Jacob Hoggard of Hedley]
Love is the answer that’s what they say
[Emily Haines]
But were not just dreamers
of broken down grievers
[Hawsley Workman]
Our hand will reach us
and (?)
[Drake]
This can’t control us
no it can’t hold us down
[Chin Injeti]
We gon pick it up even though we still struggling
[Pierre Lapointe]
Au nom de la survie (In the name of survival)
[all]
and we wondering
[Pierre Lapointe]
Battant pour nos vie (Fighting for our lives)
[All]
We patiently wait
for some other day
[Fefe Dobson and Esthero]
thats too far away so right now we say
[All - Chorus]
[Drake - Rapping]
Uhh – well alright
How come when the media stops covering
and there’s a little help from the government
we forget about the people still struggling
and assume that its really all love again, nahh
see we don’t have to wait for things to break apart
if you weren’t involved before it’s never too late to start
you probably think that it’s too far to even have to care
well take a look at where you live what if it happened there?
you have to know the urge to make a change lies within
and we can be the reason that they see their flag rise again
lyrics courtesy of www.killerhiphop.com
[Nikki Yanofsky & Drake]
When I get older
I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom
Just like a wavin’ flag
[Matt Mays]
and then it goes back
[Justin Nozuka]
and then it goes back
[Nikki Yanofsky]
Then it goes back
[Chorus - All]
[Justin Bieber]
When I get older
When I get older
I will be stronger
just like a waving flag.
[End]
Please donate at: www.facebook.com/youngartistsforhaiti
This was a nice tribute song and it was good to see all these Canadian artists come together.
- Soloists (in order of appearance)
- Chorus (including the soloists)
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Thanks to Wikipedia.com for list of artists.
i love this...