Wyclef Jean

The first Fugees member to embark on a solo career, rapper/singer and guitarist Wyclef Jean has proven to be even more eclectic outside his group, achieving multi-platinum success as a genre-spanning headliner and collaborator. While Fugees' status was in limbo following the runaway success of The Score (1996), Wyclef took the spotlight as hip-hop's unofficial multicultural conscience, assembling or participating in numerous high-profile shows for a variety of causes, including aid for his native Haiti. The utopian one-world sensibility that fueled Wyclef's political conscious...