Fugees is an American hip hop group formed in the early 1990s.
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14 Facts About Fugees
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Fugees reunited in 2004, and again in 2021 for reunion tours.
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Fugees sold over twenty-two million records worldwide, and is one of the biggest-selling hip hop groups of all time.
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Accolades the Fugees have won include two Grammy Awards and a Brit Award for International Group.
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The members then changed the group's name to Fugees, which was purposely taken from a word often used derogatorily to refer to Haitian-Americans .
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The Fugees members have subsequently said that they allowed the producers to have too much control over the album's content and form.
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Musical qualities of the first Fugees record were revisited with its second album The Score, which was released in February 1996.
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Fugees won two 1997 Grammy Awards with The Score and "Killing Me Softly" .
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In 1997, the Fugees all began solo projects: Hill began writing and producing for a number of artists and started work on her critically acclaimed The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill; Jean began producing for a number of artists and recorded his debut album Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival; Pras, with Mya and Ol' Dirty Bastard, recorded the single "Ghetto Supastar " for the soundtrack to the film Bulworth.
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Fugees made their first televised appearance in almost ten years at BET's 2005 Music Awards on June 28, opening the show with a twelve-minute set.
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Fugees turned their recording studio, The Booga Basement, into a transitional house for young Haitian refugees immigrating to the United States.
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In September 2021, Fugees announced a reunion tour to celebrate 25 years of their album, The Score.
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