Innate around Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Jean moved to Brooklyn when he was nine, then to Northern New Jersey, where he began swimming a guitar and studying jazz in high school. Within 1987, Jean, his friend (so close it told population it were first cousin, growing higher) Prakazrel Michel (Pras) and his schoolfellow, Lauryn Hill, formed a class action known as a Tranzlator Crew prior to becoming A Fugees. Wyclef worked as a cabby.

A Fugees signed to Ruffhouse Records and released their debut, Blunted on Reality, but a album was panned & sold badly. Their eclectic watch-higher, The Score, however, sold complete 17 million copies worldwide & sour a trio into international wizard. Jean shortly announced plans to commence the solo career by owning 1997's Wyclef Jean Presents the Carnival Featuring the Refugee All-Stars (more generally known as just A Carnival). A album's guests involved Hill & Pras along using Jean's sib, a I Threes (back-up vocals for Bob Marley), Neville Brothers and Celia Cruz. the album wwhen a major hit, as were ii singles: "We Trying to Stay Alive" (adapted from either The Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive") and "Gone Til November" (recorded by owning a New York Philharmonic Orchestra).

Jean went in to function sustaining creative person including Santana, Tevin Campbell, Cypress Hill, Bounty Killer, Whitney Houston, Destiny's Child, Sublime, Simply Red, Mya, Sinéad O'Connor, Kimberly Scott, Mick Jagger, Canibus, The Black Eyed Peas and Eric Benét. A Fugees remained within limbo when you took this instance, by having a watch-as much as A Score existence hard-hitting postponed when wholly deuce-ace members cultivated solo careers. Jean's 2nd solo album was The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book, recorded with guests Youssou N'Dour, Earth, Wind & Fire, Kenny Rogers, The Rock and Mary J. Blige. A critical reception was mixed, by using numbers of calling a album scattershot & as well far-ranging to exist as cohesive.

Jean's third album, Masquerade, was released around 2002 and sold well, though critics often panned it.

His 4th album was ''A Sermonizer's Boy, an album that Wyclef considered the continuation of his number one album, Carnival.

Inside 2004, he freed his fifth album, entitled Sak Pasé Presents: Welcome to Haiti (Creole 101)'' (freed in the United States by Koch Records). The freewheeling album that is something of the go to to his Caribbean roots, virtually all of the songs on the album come around his native language of Haitian Creole or Kreyòl. He too covered Creedence Clearwater Revival's song "Fortunate Son" for the soundtrack of The Manchurian Candidate.

Jean too produced & wrote original songs for the original soundtrack to the 2003 Documentary film "The Agronomist", a film all about a legendary Jean Dominique, an active man of the humans of Wyclef's native land, Haiti.

Inside 2005, Jean earned the Golden World nomination for his track entitled "Million Voices" featured on the soundtrack to the film Hotel Rwanda.

Discography

1997 Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival Featuring the Refugee All-Stars 2000 The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book 2002 Masquerade (album) 2003 ''The Preacher's Son 2004 Sak Pasé Presents: Creole 101 (Welcome to Haiti)''