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I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
Actor
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Human Rights Activist
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I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.
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Right now I'm trying to help my sister with her school situation, 'cause she's real smart. Besides me, my other brother's a lawyer... my parents stressed education a lot.
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When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.
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Michael Jackson was my musical God. He made me believe that all things are possible, and through real and positive music. He can live forever! I love Michael Jackson. God Bless him.
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No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.
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I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
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My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.
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I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.
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What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.
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My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason I was raised with a lot of studies.
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I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.
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Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.
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I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.
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You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.
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I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.
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I'm not going away fast I've been around for a while, and plan to be around for a while more.
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When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.
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Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important.
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If you go in the ring and box and you're angry, you're gonna lose the match.
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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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