Wyclef Jean has been released from the hospital after being shot in the hand in his native Haiti.

Commemorating the one-year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, Wyclef Jean takes it to the studio to rep for his native country in the video for “Earthquake,” a track off his If I Were President: My Haitian Experience EP. Wearing a turquoise-plaid jacket and poised in front of a microphone, the presidential hopeful sings to Mother [...]

Wyclef Jean announced earlier this month that he was ready to hit the presidential campaign trail in Haiti, but today the former Fugees member must accept the fact that he is ineligible to take part in the election.

The rumors are true: Wyclef Jean is officially running for the Haitian presidency. The 40-year-old singer-turned-politician announced his bid earlier this week, after talk surfaced of his involvement in the upcoming elections.

Solange, along with Halle Berry, Kylie Minogue, and Jon Bon Jovi, lent her support to fight leukemia at the 4th Annual DKMS Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City on Thursday (April 29). The 23-year-old mother will make an appearance on Nick Jr.’s children’s show “Yo Gabba Gabba!” on May 7, performing the [...]

Wyclef’s personal assistant, Zakiya Khatou-Chevassus received a salary of $105,000 a year according to Yelé Haiti’s 2008 tax refund. Gawker.com blew the lid off the story earlier today. …The charity paid Khatou-Chevassus $105,000 as an independent contractor in 2008 for “program development.” That amounts to roughly one-third of all the money Yele spent that year [...]

“Hold on, be strong/ No matter what you goin’ through you know it’s gon’ be OK today,” encourages Wyclef Jean in the empowering video for “Hold On,” which he dedicates to his country of Haiti and rapper Jimmy O, who died in the Port-au-Prince earthquake.

The stars came out to support Haiti on Friday (Jan. 22). Alicia Keys, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Rihanna, U2, Stevie Wonder, Justin Timberlake, Jennifer Hudson, Wyclef Jean, and more performed touching tributes on “Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief” from Los Angeles, New York, and London. Watch some of the performances below. The [...]

Wyclef Jean has responded to accusations that he is personally profiting from his Yele Haiti Foundation, which has raised over $2 million in relief for victims of the Haiti earthquake. The former Fugees member said that the money in question went toward production for shows that benefited the foundation. “I never and would ever take [...]

Following the devastating 7.0 earthquake in Haiti, Wyclef Jean immediately jumped into action to help residents of his home country. The former Fugees member appeared on CNN to call for “immediate aid” and ask for assistance in finding his hip-hop artist Jimmy O, who may have lost his life in the quake. “My urgency right [...]