Wyclef Jean: Pras Michel

Lauryn Hill Dept: First, he s not old enough to have acquired necessary gravitas, nor has he produced a body of work that would guarantee wide readership for an autobiography, according to The Star. That didn t stop him writing Purpose: An Immigrant s Story , a self-aggrandizing, steamy sex/hot music insider confessional that benefits from the writing skill of collaborator Anthony Bozza, who helps Jean in the book s opening sequence create a vivid and truly frightening account of the earthquake s immediate aftermath, and realistic impressions of the horror, chaos, rage, helplessness and suffering the musician encountered in his homeland s capital, Port-au-Prince, in those first 12 hours and at 43, Haitian-American hip-hop artist, songwriter and record producer Wyclef Jean a member, with Lauryn Hill and Pras Michel, of the ground-breaking New Jersey trio the Fugees, who had a huge hit with the album The Score in the mid-1990s barely rates memoir status. If Jean, the son of a Haitian diplomat and a revered legend to Haiti s youth, hadn t drawn headlines by announcing his candidacy for the presidency of his Caribbean nation home in the 2010 election in the wake of the earthquake that devastated Haiti in January that year he was forced to withdraw over residency issues, and a financial scandal involving the Haitian charity organization, Yele, which he founded it s doubtful anyone other than fans of the Fugees and Hill, with whom Jean had a torrid affair before and after his marriage to another woman, would have much to offer the general public in a memoir. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.