I just read an article in the Toronto Star about Somalian born, Toronto bred rapper K’naan. His song "Wavin' Flag" has been remixed and turned into a charity single (helping with Haiti relief efforts) and it has now been selected to be the World Cup song. The Toronto Star dubs it: "the little song that could". You could say that he's a Toronto boy that's made it not only in Toronto and in Canada, having won a Juno and a Polaris Prize, but now around the world, singing a song about hope and succeding despite the odds.
But I guess the thing that striked me the most was when he said he knew that the song was special right from the start, but it took him a while to let that song grow. That is something that I keep forgetting from time to time. Great things take time and nurturing. Like when you go to fashion school, you don't become a great designer in a second, you practice and practice, and you research ideas and try out different things, you find and define your sense of aesthetics and that first collection you present is special because you have been working and making it grow for a long time. And of course, you try to make it global, appealing to everyone, without straying from your message, which is a hard thing to do, which is why I guess it takes as long as it takes...
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The song is beautiful. The theme of the week seems to be keep at it!