16098: (Arthur) New Wyclef Jean release due in October (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Tttnhm@aol.com

Wyclef Gets Down With Edge
ANDREW DANSBY
(July 8, 2003 -Rolling Stone)

New album due in October

Wyclef Jean will release Preacher's Son, his fourth solo album, on J Records,
in October. For the album, Clef's first since last year's Masquerade, the
former Fugee enlisted U2 guitarist the Edge and an all-star hip-hop roster
including Redman, Scarface, Mobb Deep's Prodigy, Trick Daddy and producer Timbaland.

The title carries a personal resonance for Jean. The singer/producer/rapper
is the son of a Haitian minister, who relocated his family to Brooklyn, New
York, when Wyclef was a child. Jean's father, Rev. Gesner Jean, who continued to
preach after relocating to Newark, New Jersey, was killed in September 1991,
when he was pinned between a garage door and his car at home. Though Masquerade
was dedicated to Jean's father, Preacher's Son is his first full album
recorded following the tragedy.

Wyclef's jump to J Records follows three solo albums (and one with the
Fugees) for Columbia over six years. After his solo debut, 1997's Presents the
Carnival was registered as double platinum, Jean's sales moved south. The
follow-up, The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book registered platinum sales in 2000, but
Masquerade failed to reach platinum or gold certification.

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