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The group's debut album, Blunted on Reality, was released in 1994. After they signed with Ruffhouse Records and Columbia Records in 1993, they renamed their group as Fugees – an abbreviation of "refugees", and also a sometimes derogatory reference to Haitian immigrants. Jean later revealed that Hill's dishonesty about the parentage of her child, Zion David, caused the riff that split the group up. Jean and band member Lauryn Hill pursued a romantic relationship beginning in 1992, and ending in 1997, the year of the band's breakup. Jean and other musicians formed a group in the 1980s under the name Tranzlator Crew. Jean has been a resident of Saddle River, South Orange, and North Caldwell, New Jersey. In 2009 he enrolled in the Berklee College of Music to pursue his diploma. Jean graduated from Newark's Vailsburg High School and enrolled for one semester at Five Towns College in New York. He has stated that he played music to earn respect. He has cited reggae artist Bigga Haitian as one of his early influences, as well as neighborhood heroes MC Tiger Paw Raw and producer Lobster v. Jean began to make music as a child, and as a teen, his mother, having recognized his musical talent, bought him a guitar. At nine years old, he immigrated with his family to Brooklyn, New York City, and ultimately settled in East Orange and Newark, New Jersey. Named after the biblical scholar John Wycliffe, Wyclef Jean was born in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti on October 17, 1969.
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Nel Ust Wyclef Jean ( / ˈ w aɪ k l ɛ f ˈ ʒ ɒ̃/ born October 17, 1969) is a Haitian rapper, singer, songwriter and actor.