46 Facts About Wyclef Jean

Nel Ust Wyclef Jean is a Haitian rapper, musician, and actor.

At the age of nine, Jean immigrated to the United States with his family.

Wyclef Jean first achieved fame as a founding member, co-producer and guitarist of the New Jersey hip hop trio The Fugees, alongside Lauryn Hill and Pras Michel.

In 1997, Wyclef Jean was featured on Destiny Child's breakout single "No, No, No".

Wyclef Jean performed his single "Dar um Jeito ", at the closing ceremony for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

In 2007, Wyclef Jean was appointed Ambassador-at-Large of the Republic of Haiti by President Rene Preval.

Wyclef Jean's highly publicized efforts to raise relief funds after the 2010 Haitian earthquake were channeled through his charitable organization, Yele Haiti.

Wyclef Jean is the recipient of three Grammy Awards, the BET Humanitarian Award, and a Vanguard Award from the NAACP Image Awards, in addition to being nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his musical work.

Wyclef Jean has been inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.

Wyclef Jean began to make music as a child, and as a teen, his mother, having recognized his musical talent, bought him a guitar.

Wyclef Jean has cited reggae artist Bigga Haitian as one of his early influences, as well as neighborhood heroes MC Tiger Paw Raw and producer Lobster v Crab.

Wyclef Jean has stated that he played music to earn respect.

Wyclef Jean graduated from Newark's Vailsburg High School and enrolled for one semester at Five Towns College in New York.

Wyclef Jean has been a resident of Saddle River, South Orange, and North Caldwell, New Jersey.

Wyclef Jean later revealed that Hill's dishonesty about the parentage of her child, Zion David, caused the rift that split the group up.

Wyclef Jean was nominated for Best Hip-Hop Act at the 2000 MTV Europe Music Awards.

Wyclef Jean then covered Creedence Clearwater Revival's song "Fortunate Son" for the soundtrack of the film The Manchurian Candidate and wrote the song "Million Voices" for the film Hotel Rwanda.

Wyclef Jean co-wrote "My Love Is Your Love" for Whitney Houston's album of the same name.

Wyclef Jean produced and wrote songs for the soundtrack to Jonathan Demme's 2003 documentary The Agronomist, about the Haitian activist and radio personality Jean Dominique.

In 2006, Wyclef Jean was featured in Shakira's smash hit "Hips Don't Lie".

Wyclef Jean joined Shakira on various dates of her Oral Fixation Tour in the US Also in 2007, Jean scored the Angelina Jolie documentary A Place in Time.

In 2009, Wyclef Jean was featured on the song "Spanish Fly" with Ludacris and Bachata group Aventura included on Aventura's album The Last, released in June.

On June 17,2009, Jean announced via Twitter that his new album would be called wyclefjean and was to be released sometime in February 2010.

Wyclef Jean's EP named From the Hut, to the Projects, to the Mansion was released on November 10,2009.

Wyclef Jean's self-entitled studio album was due to be released in 2011, but has yet to surface.

Wyclef Jean worked with Avicii on a single titled "Divine Sorrow" from his upcoming EP J'Ouvert.

Wyclef Jean collaborated again with Avicii in 2015 on the song "Can't Catch Me" on the album Stories, which featured Matisyahu.

Wyclef Jean appeared as a featured vocalist in The Knocks' single "Kiss The Sky", which was released in January 2016.

Wyclef Jean was featured on the Young Thug song "Kanye West", from the rapper's mixtape Jeffery, released in August 2016.

Wyclef Jean wrote an autobiography entitled Purpose: An Immigrant's Story with the help of journalist Anthony Bozza, published in September 2012.

On May 17,2016, Wyclef Jean released his first song in two years, which gave hints to a new album release.

On October 14,2016 Wyclef Jean released an election song called "If I Was President 2016" that would be featured on his J'ouvert EP.

Wyclef Jean had collaborated on Young Thug's Jeffery Mixtape, and was featured on Thug's song "Kanye West".

Young Thug had a song named "Wyclef Jean" that was named after him because he was such a big influence.

In January 2017, Wyclef Jean announced that his J'ouvert EP would be released on February 3,2017.

On February 2,2017, Wyclef Jean released his new single "Ne Me Quitte Pas", which was featured on his J'ouvert Deluxe EP.

On June 9, Wyclef Jean announced on his Instagram that Carnival III: The Fall and Rise of a Refugee would become available to pre-order on June 22,2017.

In November 2017, Wyclef released his, Wyclef Jean Inspired By mixtape.

On December 25,2017, Wyclef Jean announced The Carnival Tour via social media.

On March 8,2019, Wyclef Jean released his ninth studio album, Wyclef Jean Goes Back to School Volume 1.

Wyclef Jean took part in an MTV donation drive and other publicized fundraising, such as the Hope for Haiti Now telethon, which he organized with actor and producer George Clooney.

Wyclef Jean intended to run as a candidate for the Viv Ansanm political party.

In 2012 Wyclef Jean published his memoir called Purpose: An Immigrant's Story.

Wyclef Jean describes growing up in Haiti so poor, he actually ate dirt.

One of Wyclef Jean's cousins is Raymond Alcide Joseph, a political activist, journalist and diplomat.

In 2017, Wyclef Jean was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.