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Nov 12, 2005 2:02:14 GMT 1
Post by dawyked on Nov 12, 2005 2:02:14 GMT 1
did anyone have a COMPLETE bio of Clef, Lauryn and Pras...? , can u share it??? pls.
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Nov 16, 2005 16:37:43 GMT 1
Post by dawyked on Nov 16, 2005 16:37:43 GMT 1
nobody¿
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Nov 16, 2005 18:10:54 GMT 1
Post by sybillecutey on Nov 16, 2005 18:10:54 GMT 1
I have Lauryn's bio. i ll share with you some other day. ;D
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Nov 16, 2005 21:24:15 GMT 1
Post by sybillecutey on Nov 16, 2005 21:24:15 GMT 1
okay here's lauryn's biography BIOGRAPHY
Lauryn Hill was one of two children to Valerie Hill, an English teacher, and Mal Hill, a computer consultant. She has an older brother, Melaney. At the age of thirteen she appeared on "Amateur Night" on Showtime at the Apollo. She lost the competition, but her ambition remained fierce. In high school she formed the band, the Fugees, with childhood friends, Wyclef Jean and Prakazrel Michel. Their second album, THE SCORE, won two Grammy Awards for Best Rap Album and Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group. They became the largest-selling rap group of all time. Following these triumphs, the band decided to branch out into solo pursuits.
Hill's solo debut, THE MISEDUCATION OF LAURYN HILL, had the highest first week sales of any album by a female artist in history. She won four NAACP Image Awards and received 10 Grammy nominations for the album. She went home from the Grammys with five awards, the most ever received by a female artist. The album was also the first hip-hop release in history to win Album of the Year.
Hill has written and produced hit songs for Aretha Franklin and CeCe Winans. She has formed her own film production company and says she's interested in creating black science-fiction films. She is also the founder of The Refugee Camp Youth Project which focuses on improving the quality of life for inner-city children
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Nov 16, 2005 21:32:48 GMT 1
Post by Big-D on Nov 16, 2005 21:32:48 GMT 1
Thanks sybillecutey
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Nov 17, 2005 18:28:08 GMT 1
Post by sybillecutey on Nov 17, 2005 18:28:08 GMT 1
you're welcome. so, ddd why don't you come up with Wyclef's bio ? ;D
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Nov 17, 2005 20:10:52 GMT 1
Post by Big-D on Nov 17, 2005 20:10:52 GMT 1
Clef's biography Wyclef Jean (born October 17, 1972 in La Plaine, Haiti) is a rapper, producer, and former member of the superstar hip hop trio The Fugees, known now for a series of high-profile hit singles. Born in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Jean moved to Brooklyn when he was nine, then to Northern New Jersey, where he began playing the guitar and studying jazz in high school. In 1987, Jean, his friend (so close they told people they were cousins, growing up) Prakazrel Michel (Pras) and his classmate, Lauryn Hill, formed a group called the Tranzlator Crew before becoming The Fugees. Wyclef worked as a cabdriver. The Fugees signed to Ruffhouse Records and released their debut, Blunted on Reality, but the album was panned and sold poorly. Their eclectic follow-up, The Score, however, sold over 17 million copies worldwide and turned the trio into international superstars. Jean soon announced plans to begin a solo career with 1997's Wyclef Jean Presents the Carnival Featuring the Refugee All-Stars (more typically called simply The Carnival). The album's guests included Hill and Pras along with Jean's siblings, the I Threes (back-up vocals for Bob Marley), Neville Brothers and Celia Cruz. The album was a major hit, as were two singles: "We Trying to Stay Alive" (adapted from The Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive") and "Gone Til November" (recorded with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra). Jean went on to work with artists including Santana, Tevin Campbell, Cypress Hill, Bounty Killer, Whitney Houston, Destiny's Child, Sublime, Simply Red, Mya, Sinéad O'Connor, Kimberly Scott, Mick Jagger, Canibus, The Black Eyed Peas and Eric Benét. The Fugees remained in limbo during this time, with the follow-up to The Score being continually postponed as all three members cultivated solo careers. Jean's second solo album was The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book, recorded with guests Youssou N'Dour, Earth, Wind & Fire, Kenny Rogers, The Rock and Mary J. Blige. The critical reception was mixed, with many calling the album scattershot and too far-ranging to be cohesive. Jean's third album, Masquerade, was released in 2002 and sold well, though critics frequently panned it. His fourth album was The Preacher's Son, an album that Wyclef considered a continuation of his first album, Carnival. In 2004, he released his fifth album, entitled Sak Pasé Presents: Welcome to Haiti (Creole 101) (released in the United States by Koch Records). A freewheeling album that is something of a return to his Caribbean roots, most of the songs on the album are in his native language of Haitian Creole or Kreyòl. He also covered Creedence Clearwater Revival's song "Fortunate Son" for the soundtrack of The Manchurian Candidate. Jean also produced and wrote original songs for the original soundtrack to the 2003 Documentary "The Agronomist", a film about the legendary Jean Dominique, an active man of the people of Wyclef's homeland, Haiti. In 2005, Jean earned a Golden Globe nomination for his track entitled "Million Voices" featured on the soundtrack to the film Hotel Rwanda. In November 2005, a Wyclef Jean concert scheduled to be put on at Harvard University had to be cancelled due to lackluster ticket sales.
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Nov 17, 2005 20:15:23 GMT 1
Post by Big-D on Nov 17, 2005 20:15:23 GMT 1
Pras's biography
Pras (born Prakazrel Michel on October 19, 1972) offered up his first solo effort, Ghetto Supastar, in the fall of 1998, following in the footsteps of his fellow Fugees Wyclef Jean and Lauryn Hill. Released on Ruffhouse Records, the album's title track "Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)" featured vocals by Mya and Ol' Dirty Bastard. He has recently came out with a new album titled Win Lose or Draw and has released a new single, "Haven't Found".
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Nov 17, 2005 20:18:41 GMT 1
Post by Big-D on Nov 17, 2005 20:18:41 GMT 1
L's biography
Early career and The Fugees Lauryn Hill attended Columbia High School in South Orange, where she began singing and acting at a very young age. Hill's acting roles included the TV show As the World Turns (as "Kira Johnson" in 1991), and the film Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, the latter of which showcased her vocal abilities. Though the Fugees had originally formed in 1988, Hill's membership was disrupted by her acting and her education at Columbia University. The Fugees' first album, Blunted on Reality, was much-hyped but fell far short of expectations. This was followed by The Score, a multi-platinum selling album that established all three Fugees (Hill, Pras Michel and Wyclef Jean) as international successes.
Hill's other acting work includes the film King of the Hill (as "Arletta the Elevator Operator"), the play "Club 127," and the motion pictures Hav Plenty (1997) and Restaurant (1998). She appeared as a singer in the soundtracks for Conspiracy Theory in 1997 (on the track "Can't take My Eyes Off You") and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood in 2002 (on the track "Selah" ).
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill In 1998, Hill released The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, a critically and commerically acclaimed album that has often been described as one of the finest albums ever made. Among the singles on the album was "Doo Wop (That Thing)." In 1999's Grammy Awards, Hill was nominated eleven times and won Album of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, Best R&B Song, Best R&B Album, setting a new record for a female performer. The album's title was inspired by Carter G. Woodson's book, The Miseducation of the Negro.
Soon after, Hill and her recording company were sued by Vada Nobles, Rasheem Pugh, Johari Newton and Tejumold Newton, known as "New Ark Entertainment," who claimed to have been denied full credit and compensation for their assistance on the album. They received an undisclosed amount of money and were given credit for drum programming and a small amount of lyrical, instrumental and production work.
Humanitarism, activism, and MTV:Unplugged 2.0 album Hill is noted as a humanitarian, and in 1996 she received an Essence Award for work which has included the 1996 founding of the Refugee Project, an outreach organization that supports a two-week overnight camp for at-risk youth, and for supporting well-building projects in Kenya and Uganda, as well as for staging a rap concert in Harlem to promote voter registration. In 1999 Hill received three awards at the 30th Annual NAACP Image Awards held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in California. She was named with Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. and others among the "10 For Tomorrow," in the EBONY 2000: Special Millennium Issue. In 1999 Ebony magazine named her one of "100+ Most Influential Black Americans."
Hill released an MTV Unplugged album laced with verbal interludes in 2002 to mixed reviews. The Unplugged 2.0 album showed another side of Lauryn Hill, as she focused more on the lyrics and the message she was spreading instead of the musical arrangements.
On December 13, 2003, Hill shocked officials at the Vatican by denouncing them for "corruption, exploitation, and abuses," apparently in reference to allegations of the child molestation of boys by Catholic officials in the United States of America and the cover-up of offenses by Catholic Church officials. Among those in attendance were Edmund Cardinal Szoka, American-born President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City, and President of the Governatorate of Vatican City. Two days later Pope John Paul II told a group of Bishops from Sudan that, "Scandalous behavior must at all times be investigated, confronted and corrected" in the Catholic Church.
Return of the Fugees The three Fugees were reunited on September 18, 2004 at Dave Chappelle's Block Party in Brooklyn, New York. They headlined a bill that included a star-studded cast of who's who in hip hop, including Kanye West, Common, Mos Def, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott and others.
The Fugees were last seen together at BET's 2005 Music Awards on June 29, 2005.
The Fugees now have a new single out called "TAKE IT EASY!" which first leaked on the internet but is now officially available in the iTunes Music Store among other places. Their album has been slated for release some time in December 2005, but it is still open to change.
Personal Hill has four children by, retired (American) football player Rohan Marley, son of the late reggae music icon, Bob Marley: Zion David Marley, born 1997, Selah Louise Marley, born 1998, and second son Joshua, born 2002. A fourth child, John, was born in 2003. Hill also has two stepchildren. Hill's nickname is L-Boogie.
Lauryn's Next Album Ms. Hill (as she now prefers to be called) is reportedly working on her own LP, and completing it little by little. In January 2005, she had collaborated with producer extraordinaire Kanye West to produce at least two songs. John Legend has also commented about doing a song with her for her upcoming LP. She was supposedly wrapping a project titled "Khulami Phase" over a year ago (as of 10/9/2005) but that seems to have dissipated into nothing. Also, recent performances hint toward her return into a solo music career (she toured in Europe, as well as opened the MOBO Awards, and has been a great deal more active than she has been in recent years).
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Nov 17, 2005 20:49:37 GMT 1
Post by sybillecutey on Nov 17, 2005 20:49:37 GMT 1
great bio. good job ddd ! ;D At least they mentionned her recent tour and her appareance at the Mobo's.
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Nov 17, 2005 20:50:24 GMT 1
Post by sybillecutey on Nov 17, 2005 20:50:24 GMT 1
jeez, pras's biography is soooooo short. lol.
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Nov 17, 2005 20:59:37 GMT 1
Post by Big-D on Nov 17, 2005 20:59:37 GMT 1
Yeah
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Nov 17, 2005 23:38:15 GMT 1
Post by fugees-online on Nov 17, 2005 23:38:15 GMT 1
ddd, where do these bios come from?! I'm thinking about putting them on the site since they cover also recent events....
let me know...
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Nov 18, 2005 10:56:51 GMT 1
Post by Big-D on Nov 18, 2005 10:56:51 GMT 1
ddd, where do these bios come from?! I'm thinking about putting them on the site since they cover also recent events.... let me know... This is the link en.wikipedia.org
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Nov 18, 2005 17:43:30 GMT 1
Post by dawyked on Nov 18, 2005 17:43:30 GMT 1
tahnk u guys, i'm searching that cause i try to get the most complete bios of them, reuniting all the bios in yhe web and makin' just one... thank ddd and subillecutey! ;D
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