wab kinew (pron. WOB-ka-NOO)

Wab Kinew

Wab Kinew is a Hip-Hop artist and CBC radio producer/host based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Wab exemplifies what it means to be multicultural in Canada today, holding both a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and training in the traditional Medicine ways of his Anishinaabe people.
Wab has been producing tracks for fours years, appearing in Slangblossom’s “Convulsions”, RezOfficial’s “The Foundation” and The Original Soundtrack to the movie “Stryker”. His video for "If This Was Right" was nominated for several awards including the Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Award for Best Music Video, the Canadian Aboriginal Music Award for Best Rap/Hip-Hop Video and the ImagineNative Film Festivals award for Best Music Video. Wab's rap group "Dead Indians" well known and has followers not only in Manitoba but the U.S and Mexico, are hyped and very original.

In 2008, Wab released his debut solo album “Live by the Drum”, which will followed a tour of the Southwestern United States and Western Canada. "Live by the Drum" mixes the urban rhythmic feel of hip-hop with the power and presence of the Pow-Wow drum.

 The Winnipeg Free Press named Wab, the number one Artist in Manitoba, beating out acts with major publishing deals, record contracts and booking agents. Winnipeg Press wrote "unlike other artists, Kinew has the charisma (and the business sense) to pull it off In 2009, he could finally smash the glass ceiling between Canada's most dynamic aboriginal voices and a deserved spotlight." (Winnipeg Free Press, January 6, 2009)

Album

• Live by the Drum
• Mide Sun Music (Mixtape)

Videos (YouTube Links)

"If This Was Right" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDSoK-Xv4wM
"Last Word" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP9zDbBHMlU
"Good Bye Boy" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9K3n_fNp64

Wab Kinew