WAVING FLAG SONG FOR HAITI HOW TO
The easy, fast & fun way to learn how to sing: 30DaySinger. Many other bilingual and country-specific versions were released. A version of the song featuring will.i.am and David Guetta was targeted for international markets. The Spanish cover featuring David Bisbal became very popular. The English version was released as "Wavin' Flag (Celebration Mix)" by K'naan to differentiate it from the original Canadian hit or from the Canadian Haiti charity hit. This amended international version with additional lyrics reached the top ten in more than twenty different charts around the world. The song became a truly global hit when it was chosen as Coca-Cola's promotional anthem for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, hosted by South Africa. This creative and impressive book for children aged six and up tells the story behind that song. After a devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010, a remake of the song by an ad hoc supergroup of Canadian artists, credited as Young Artists for Haiti, became a charity single in Canada, reaching #1 on the Canadian Hot 100 in its own right. Since it became the theme song of the Soccer World Cup in 2010, many young people all over the world have come to know and love the Wavin’ Flag song of Canadian-Somali Hip Hop singer K’naan (born Keynaan Abdi Warsame). The original single was a hit in Canada and reached #2 on the Canadian Hot 100 as the third official single from the album, after the singles "ABCs" and "Bang Bang", which were minor hits. The song was originally written for Somalia and aspirations of its people for freedom. "Wavin' Flag" is a song by Somali-Canadian artist K'naan from his album Troubadour.