In 2000, Jean presented his second full-length The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II A Book, featuring a duet 911 with Mary J. Fugees still existed at that time, but they postponed the third release for several times as all the members were more interested in the solo careers. The album featured many guest singers and emerged hits Trying To Stay Alive, the interpretation of The Bee Gees' Stayin' Alive, and Gone Till November, recorded with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

He released Presents The Carnival Featuring The Refugee All-Stars (usually called simply The Carnival). It was too innovative, but the Fugees' consecutive work The Score was a sound success.Īround that time, Wyclef announced the beginning of his solo career. The same year Wyclif's hip hop trio released the debut disc Blunted On Reality. They have an adoptive daughter from Haiti named Angelina Claudinelle after the good family friend, actress Angelina Jolie. In 1994, Wyclef married to Marie Claudinette Pierre-Jean, a fashion designer. 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'. There the boy started playing the guitar and listening to jazz. At the age of nine, Wyclef with his family moved to Brooklyn, New York, then to New Jersey. He called the son in honor of a famous English religious activist and theologian of the fourteenth century John Wycliffe. Future rapper, producer and talented singer-songwriter Wyclef Jean was born in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, the poorest country of the Western Hemisphere.

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