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You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.

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I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

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Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.

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I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

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It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.

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Biography

Nationality: Somali

Type: Musician

Born: February 1st, 1978

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