Artist: Wyclef Jean
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Other
Pop
Discography:
Carnival Vol. II Memoirs Of An Immigrant
Year: 2007
Tracks: 16
Welcome to Haiti: Creole 101
Year: 2004
Tracks: 18
The Preacher's Son
Year: 2003
Tracks: 17
Greatest Hits
Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
Masquerade
Year: 2002
Tracks: 22
The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II A Book
Year: 2000
Tracks: 19
The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book (Bonus Disc)
Year:
Tracks: 4
Lead Fugees rapper and onetime guitar player Wyclef Jean was the start appendage of his radical to ship on a solo calling, and he proven even more than ambitious and eclecticist on his have. As the Fugees hung in limbo, Wyclef besides became hip-hop's unofficial multicultural sense of right and wrong; a ostensibly ubiquitous activist, he assembled or participated in numerous high profile charity benefit shows for a salmagundi of causes, including assistance for his native Haiti. The utopian one-world esthesia that fueled Wyclef's political cognisance also informed his recordings, which consolidated hip-hop with as many different styles of music as he could go his custody on (though, disposed his Caribbean roots, reggae was a fussy favourite). In addition to his corner as hip-hop's frontmost worldwide citizen, Clef was besides a noted producer and remixer wHO worked with an impressive raiment of pop, R&B, and rap talent, including Whitney Houston, Santana, and Destiny's Child, among many others.
The logos of a minister, Nelust Wyclef Jean was natural in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, on October 17, 1972. When he was niner, his family stirred to the Marlborough projects in Brooklyn, NY; by his teen years, Jean had affected to New Jersey, taken up the guitar, and begun poring over jazz through his high school's medicine department. In 1987, he also linked a tap group with his cousin Prakazrel Michel (aka Pras) and Michel's high schoolfellow Lauryn Hill. Initially career themselves the Tranzlator Crew, they evolved into the Fugees, a name taken from slang for Haitian refugees. The trio signed with Ruffhouse Records in 1993 and released their debut album, Blunted on Reality, the next class; it attracted small notice, thanks to an unfitting hardcore stance that the radical wore like an ill-fitting courtship. But the Fugees hit their step on the reexamination, The Score, ignoring popular trends and crafting an eclectic, bohemian masterpiece that sounded like zilch else on the hip-hop landscape painting in 1996. Thanks to hit singles like "Fu-Gee-La" and "Killing Me Softly," The Score became a chart-topping phenomenon; in fact, with sales of all over six gazillion copies, it unruffled ranks as one of the biggest-selling strike albums of all meter.
Wyclef Jean was the first Fugee to declare plans for a solo image, place setting to exploit before long later on the radical completed its encouraging tours. Released in the summer of 1997, The Carnival (entire championship: Wyclef Jean Presents the Carnival Featuring the Refugee All-Stars) was regular more musically ambitious than The Score. Its roster of guests included not only if the remainder of the Fugees, just as well Jean's siblings (wHO performed together in the yoke Melky Sedeck), Cuban legend Celia Cruz, New Orleans blue funk mainstays the Neville Brothers, and Bob Marley's female backing vocalists the I Threes. The breadth of his ambition was farther in evidence on the album's two hit singles; "We Trying to Stay Alive" recast the Bee Gees' signature disco tune as a ghetto authorization anthem, and the Grammy-nominated "Deceased Till November" was recorded with part of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Those two songs helped drive The Carnival into a Top 20, triple-platinum display, and most reviews were course quite a positive.
In the fire up of The Carnival, Wyclef stepped up his external work for other artists; all over the adjacent few years, he collaborated as a producer, songster, and/or remixer with a typically divers list of artists: Destiny's Child ("No No No"), Sublime, Simply Red, Whitney Houston (the title track of her My Love Is Your Love album), dancehall reggae star Bounty Killer, Cypress Hill, Michael Jackson, Eric Benet, Mya, Santana ("Calophyllum longifolium Maria"), Tevin Campbell, the Black Eyed Peas, Kimberly Scott, Sinéad O'Connor, Mick Jagger, and Canibus. Clef also served as Canibus' coach for a short time in 1998; prior to their split, a report surfaced that Wyclef had pulled a gun on Blaze editor Jesse Washington over a negative Canibus critique the magazine was slated to play (Wyclef vehemently denied the accusation, and no charges were filed).
By the time Wyclef began operate on his second solo album, rumors were fast-flying well-nigh tension betwixt individual Fugees, and despite their denials, the fact that no reexamination to The Score was in ken seemed to lend credence to all the speculation. Although Wyclef had antecedently announced he would cast off his sophomore effort until later on the next Fugees album, he was well into the image by early 2000, giving an early vent the antipolice brutality track "Diallo" (with guest vocals from Senegalese adept Youssou N'Dour) via the Internet. The full album, highborn The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book, was released toward the end of the summer and entered the charts at telephone number nine. Besides N'Dour, guests this metre round included Mary J. Blige (on the Grammy-nominated duette "911"), Earth, Wind & Fire, Kenny Rogers, and even rassling principal the Rock ("It Doesn't Matter"); Clef too threw in a left field report of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here." This metre round, some critics suggested that Wyclef's sprawl ambitions were growing messy, just the record went pt yet. Shortly after its passing, he as well started up his own record label, Yclef.
With no Fugees reunion in sight, Wyclef began preparing his third gear solo album, Masquerade, in 2001; he also appeared in the Jamaican gangster ruffle Shottas, and, sadly, suffered the death of his founding father in a home accident. Masquerade costume was released in the summer of 2002, and in addition to the common worldbeat fusions, it ground Wyclef reworking songs by Bob Dylan and Frankie Valli, and featured edgar Guest shots from Tom Jones and Israeli violinist Miri Ben-Ari. Masquerade entered the charts at number six-spot, proving that Wyclef's freewheeling overture still held quite a spot of invoke. One twelvemonth later, he returned with The Preacher's Son, and too released an album of traditional Haitian Creole music, Welcome to Haiti: Creole 101. His debut solo album got its sequel in 2007 when Carnival, Vol. 2: Memoirs of an Immigrant arrive at the shelves. The album had a diverse and protracted guest list, with Akon, Mary J. Blige, Norah Jones, Shakira, Paul Simon, and Sizzla beingness just some of the name calling byzantine.
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