Researching Wyclef Jean

Jean would continue to have a successful music career as a soloist. Releasing an additional eight studio albums; including his RIAA Platinum certified album, The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book (2000). Jean would also release a string of commercially successful singles including the Top 40 hits "911" (featuring Mary J. Blige), "Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill)" (featuring Akon, Niia & Lil Wayne)", writing and producing "Maria Maria" by Santana, and featuring on Destiny Child's "No, No, No", and the US Billboard Hot 100 number-one single "Hips Don't Lie" by Shakira.

In August 2010, Jean filed for candidacy in the 2010 Haitian presidential election. However, Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council ruled him ineligible to stand for office, as he had not met the constitutional requirement to have been a resident in Haiti for five years prior to the election."Haiti's electoral commission said that Mr Jean was ineligible to stand as the Haitian constitution requires candidates to have lived in the country for five years prior to an election. The 40-year-old singer lives in the US." Jean's highly publicized efforts to raise relief funds after the 2010 Haitian earthquake were channeled through his charitable organization, Yéle Haiti. The charity, which conducted education and welfare activities in Haiti between 2005 and 2010, effectively closed in 2012. The New York Times reported that much of the money raised by the organization in the Hope for Haiti Now telethon was retained by Jean for his own benefit. In 2012, Jean published his memoir Purpose: An Immigrant's Story. Jean performed his single "Dar um Jeito (We Will Find a Way)", at the closing ceremony for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

Jean has won three Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe Award nomination for his musical work.