Wyclef Jean

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26.08.2008 13:51
Wyclef Jean recorded a song for Venus Williams
Wyclef Jean recorded song Venus (I’m Ready) as a tribute for Venus Williams. «Even in my wildest imagination, did I expect that such a beautiful song would be one of the outcomes from meeting Wyclef», said Williams.

22.01.2010 12:12
Madonna and Coldplay will help to raise money for Haiti
Madonna, Coldplay and Bruce Springsteen were named among the artists who will take part in Hope For Haiti concerts. Organized by actor George Clooney, Hope For Haiti aims to raise money for people who suffered from recent Haiti earthquake.

21.01.2010 15:39
U2 and Jay-Z recorded song about Haiti earthquake
U2, Jay-Z and producer Swizz Beatz have recorded a song to benefit the victims of the recent Haiti earthquake. «Bono came up with the phrase on the phone and we were here, we wrote a song, finished, recorded, and sent it back to them», said U2 guitarist The Edge.

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Biography

Future rapper, producer and talented singer-songwriter Wyclef Jean was born in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, the poorest country of the Western Hemisphere. His adoptive father was a pastor. He called the son in honor of a famous English religious activist and theologian of the fourteenth century John Wycliffe. At the age of nine, Wyclef with his family moved to Brooklyn, New York, then to New Jersey. There the boy started playing the guitar and listening to jazz. In 1987, Jean, his friend Prakazrel Michel and classmate Lauryn Hill formed a hip-hop command Tranzlator Crew, later renamed in Fugees - from Haitian slang word for "refugees". In 1994, Wyclef married to Marie Claudinette Pierre-Jean, a fashion designer. They have an adoptive daughter from Haiti named Angelina Claudinelle after the good family friend, actress Angelina Jolie. The same year Wyclif's hip hop trio released the debut disc Blunted On Reality. It was too innovative, but the Fugees' consecutive work The Score was a sound success.

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