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A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
Wyclef Jean
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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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Kwadèbouke
Wyclef Jeanelle Jean
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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.
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Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?
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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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Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.
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It was important to me to go back to the grungy, because all of a sudden you get excited again, 'cause there's another whole dimension of 'Clef that you wasn't expecting to hear.
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I decided to do what I do when I was 2 years old. At 2 years old, you know, I heard the sound of a drum playing in the village, and I found my own drum and just picked it up and started playing, the worst song ever written by Wyclef Jean.But it actually started a vibe.
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People often associate raves with drugs, but for me raves are more associated with self-expression.
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Respect, my brother, nothing but respect, man.
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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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It's important, when you see darkness, to understand that there's light ahead of that, and I'm the living testimony of that, you dig?
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Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
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What I picked up on Michael Jackson - because I study people when I watch them - the way that he counts his rhythm with his feet and his neck at the same time is crazy... so he's hearing multiple things at once. And I don't know anybody who does that.
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