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Shadrach Kabango (born July 18, 1982), better known as Shad or Shad K, is a Canadian alternative hip hop recording artist and broadcaster. He has released six studio albums since 2005. Four of his albums have been shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize and he won a Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year in 2011. In 2013, CBC Music named Shad the second greatest Canadian rapper of all time. Shad hosted Q on CBC Radio One from 2015 to 2016 and hosts the International Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary series Hip-Hop Evolution (2016-present) on HBO Canada and Netflix.

Born in Kenya to Rwandan parents, Shad was raised in London, Ontario. His mother worked as a lab technologist in a London hospital and his father was a machinist. He attended London Central Secondary School.

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