The HistoryMakers video oral history with Wyclef Jean.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource (10 video files (4 hr., 28 min., 38 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:	English
Subject:	Jean, Wyclef. -- Interviews. Jean, Wyclef. African Americans -- Interviews. African Americans. Oral histories. Internet videos. Internet videos. Interviews. Oral histories.
Format:	E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11312895

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Varying Form of Title:	History Makers video oral history with Wyclef Jean Wyclef Jean
Other authors / contributors:	Jean, Wyclef interviewee. Cole, Harriette, interviewer. Hickey, Matthew, director of photography. HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:	digital
Digital file characteristics:	video file
Notes:	Videographer, Matthew Hickey. Harriette Cole, interviewer. Recorded New York, New York 2016 December 12. Vendor-supplied metadata.
Summary:	Artist Wyclef Jean was born on October 17, 1969 in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti. His family moved to Brooklyn and then to Newark, New Jersey. In 1990, he formed the musical group the Fugees with his cousin Pras Michel, and Lauryn Hill. In 1996, the Fugees released their most popular album, The Score, winning the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. Jean released his debut album Wyclef Jean Presents the Carnival Featuring the Refugee All-Stars in 1997. Multiple albums followed, including Masquerade, The Preacher's Son, Welcome to Haiti: Creole 101, and follow-up albums to his debut album Carnival, Carnival, Vol. II, and Carnival III: Road to Clefication. Jean produced for multiple artists, including Santana, the Knocks and Shakira. He established Y le Haiti, a charitable organization providing aid to the citizens of Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne and the 2010 Haitian earthquake He attempted unsuccessfully to run for president of Haiti in 2011.

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