Biography

Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques OD (born 9 January 1973) is a Jamaican singer, rapper 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.

Personal life

Sean Paul Henriques was born in Kingston, Jamaica to parents Garth and Frances on 9 January 1973. His mother is a painter. His paternal grandfather was of Portuguese Jewish descent, hence his Portuguese last name of Henriques; his father is of Portuguese and Indo-Jamaican descent. 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. 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. 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 swimming.

In 2012, Paul married his longtime girlfriend Jodi Stewart, a Jamaican 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 Jamaican musicians making use of "hardcore patois", a mixture of English with several languages spoken in Jamaica, create a language barrier that prevents them from becoming successful in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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