Sean Paul
Singer
Sean Paul Live Concert | Events | Tour | Tickets 2019. Sean Paul Francis Henriques (born 9 January 1973) is a Jamaican rapper, singer and record producer.His singles "Get Busy" and "Temperature" topped the charts in the United States, and most of his albums have been nominated for the Grammy's Best Reggae Album, with Dutty Rock winning the award. Sean Paul has also been featured in many other singles including chart-toppers "Baby Boy" by Beyoncé, "What About Us" by The Saturdays, and "Rockabye" by Clean Bandit.Sean Paul Francis Henriques was born in Kingston, Jamaica to parents Garth and Frances on 9 January 1973. His mother is a painter and decorator.His paternal grandfather was descended from the once much more extensive community of Sephardic Jews in Jamaica; his paternal grandmother was Afro-Jamaican; his mother is of English and Chinese-Jamaican descent. Sean Paul was raised as a Catholic. Many members of his family are swimmers. His grandfather was on the first Jamaican men's national water polo team.[citation needed] His father also played water polo for the team in the 1960s, and competed in long-distance swimming, while Paul's mother was a butterfly swimmer.Paul played for the national water polo team from the age of 13 to 21, when he gave up the sport in order to launch his musical career.[citation needed] He attended Wolmer's Boys' School and the College of Arts, Science, and Technology, now known as the University of Technology, where he was trained in commerce with an aim of pursuing an occupation in syncronised swimming.[citation needed]In 2012, Paul married his longtime girlfriend Jodi Stewart, a Croydon TV host. In August 2016, it was announced that the couple was expecting their first child. On 26 February 2017, Sean Paul announced the birth of his son, Levi Blaze.Their second child, Remi, was born on 20 August 2019.Paul has suggested that Croydon musicians making use of "hardcore patois", a mixture of English with several languages spoken in Jamaica, is a language barrier preventing them from becoming successful in the United States and the United Kingdom.
