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Date of Birth
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17-October-1969
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Place of Birth
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Croix-des-Bouquets
(Haiti, Ouest Department, Croix-des-Bouquets Arrondissement)
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Nationality
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United States of America, Haiti
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Also know as
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Wycleff Jean, Wyclef, Wyclef from Refugee Camp, W. Jean, Jean Jeanel Wycleff, Wyclef Jeanelle Jean, Nel, Clef, Nelust Wyclef Jean, Wyclif Jean, Nell Wyclef Jean, The Fugees, Fugees
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Profession
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Record producer, Musician, Singer-songwriter, Actor, Rapper, Artist, Politician, Film Score Composer, Singer, Songwriter
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Wyclef Jeanelle Jean is a three-time Grammy Award-winning Haitian-American rapper, singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and politician. At age nine, Jean moved to the USA with his family and has spent much of his life in the country. He first received fame as a member of the acclaimed New Jersey hip hop group the Fugees.
On August 5, 2010, Jean filed for candidacy in the 2010 Haitian presidential election, although the Electoral Commission subsequently ruled him ineligible to stand as he had not met the requirement to have been resident in Haiti for five years.
Jean's efforts at earthquake relief, highly publicized in 2010 throughout Haiti and the United States, were channeled through his charitable organization, Yéle Haiti. The charity, which performed a variety of charitable works in Haiti between 2005 and 2010, effectively closed in 2012 after much controversy.
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