Of the Armenian diaspora, Arto Tuncboyaciyan grew up outside Istanbul. His music celebrates Armenian sorrow + loneliness, also in African-American jazz and blues; it's melancholic, joyous, loving, consoling...
When K'Naan Warsame was 11, he found what he thought was a rotten and strangely skewered potato. He pulled out the pin, threw the 'potato' and blew up half his school.