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Wyclef Jean
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Haitian rapper (born 1969)
OverviewAI-generated
Wyclef Jean is an American male artist whose career began in 1989. He performs in the hip hop, r&b, and reggae genres. His professional pseudonyms include Wyclef, Toussaint St. Jean, Nel, and Clef. He has one child and maintains an official website.
His recorded works include *Wyclef Jean's All Star Jam At Carnegie Hall*, *What Makes Business Rock, Enhanced Edition*, *Carnival III*, and *Purpose*. Open Library lists four works under his name, while Crossref records five. His music is tagged with Hip-Hop, reggae, rap, and rnb.
Jean has 3,925,023 social media followers and 873,506 listeners on Last.fm, where his music has been played 9,251,575 times. He is referenced by 1,510 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Wyclef Jean's All Star Jam At Carnegie Hall
- What Makes Business Rock, Enhanced Edition
- Carnival III
- Purpose
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1969-10-17
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 873,506
- Total plays
- 9,251,575
Tags
Wyclef Jean (born October 17, 1972 in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haïti) is an American rapper, producer, and member of the superstar hip hop trio The Fugees, known now for a series of high-profile hit singles. Jean moved to Brooklyn, New York when he was nine, then to Northern New Jersey, where he began playing the guitar and studying jazz in his high school. In 1987, Jean, his friend (so close they told people they were cousins growing up) Prakazrel Michel (Pras) and his classmate <a href="https://ww
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,810x
- Situated Learning
· 1991 · cited 30,519x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,157x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,631x
- Numerical integration of the cartesian equations of motion of a system with constraints: molecular dynamics of n-alkanes
· 1977 · cited 19,842x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Nelust Wyclef Jean , ( 1969-10-17 ) October 17, 1969 (age 56) , Croix-des-Bouquets , Haiti
- Other names
- Wyclef Toussaint St. Jean Nel Clef
- Education
- Five Towns College Berklee College of Music
- Occupations
- Rapper singer songwriter record producer
- Years active
- 1989–present
- Organization
- Yéle Haiti
- Works
- Discography production
- Political party
- Fas a Fas
- Spouse
- Claudinette Jean ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1994 )
- Relatives
- Blandinna Jean (sister) Farel Jean (brother) Raymond Joseph (cousin) Jerry Duplessis (cousin)
- Awards
- Full list
- Origin
- East Orange, New Jersey , U.S., Newark, New Jersey , U.S.
- Genres
- East Coast hip-hop reggae fusion R&B pop rap neo soul
- Instruments
- Vocals guitar
- Labels
- Heads Music E1 Legacy Carnival Sony BMG J Clef Columbia Ruffhouse
- Formerly of
- Fugees Refugee Camp All-Stars
- Website
- www .wyclef .com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Nelust Wyclef Jean (/ˈwaɪklɛf ˈʒɒn/ WY-klef ZHON; born October 17, 1969) is a Haitian rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Born in Haiti, Jean emigrated to the United States as a child. He gained fame as a member of the Fugees, a hip-hop trio he formed with Lauryn Hill and Pras, serving as the group's lead producer and guitarist. Their second album The Score (1996) became one of the best-selling albums of all time. Jean launched a solo career with Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival (1997), which spawned the hit singles "We Trying to Stay Alive" and "Gone till November".
Jean produced the remix for "No, No, No" by Destiny's Child, which became their breakthrough single. He also co-wrote the 1999 singles "My Love Is Your Love" for Whitney Houston and "Maria Maria" for Santana. His second album, The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book (2000), was supported by the single "911" (featuring Mary J. Blige), and received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). His third album, Masquerade (2002), peaked within the top ten of the Billboard 200. He was featured on Shakira's 2006 single, "Hips Don't Lie", which peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100. Released the following year, his single "Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill)" (featuring Akon, Lil Wayne and Niia), served as lead single for his sixth studio album and final release on a major label, Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant (2007).
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