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Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.

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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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