Wyclef Jean covers Bob Marley's Redemption Song / I Shot The Sheriff, live in Berkeley, 1/22/2020

Wyclef Jean covers Bob Marley's songs "Redemption Song" and "I Shot The Sheriff" live in concert at Cornerstone Craft Beer & Live Music in Berkeley, California on January 22, 2020. Wyclef Jean is a Haitian-American producer, rapper, and singer, and along with Lauryn Hill and Pras Michel, was a founding member of the hip hop band The Fugees. Redemption Song was released on Bob Marley & the Wailers' Uprising album (1980), and I Shot The Sheriff was released on Bob Marley & the Wailers' Burnin' album (1973). Wyclef Jean often plays them in his live sets, but has not released studio versions of these cover songs.

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Wyclef Jean live tour dates 2020:

Jan. 22 - Berkeley, CA @ Cornerstone
Jan. 24 - Inglewood, CA @ The Miracle Theatre
Feb. 21 - Sacramento, CA @ Harlow's
April 18 - Malmo, Sweden @ Malmo Arena
April 24 - Gothenburg, Sweden @ Scandinavium
April 25 - Johanneshov, Sweden @ Tele2 Arena

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Wyclef Jean official bio:

Wyclef Jeanelle Jean is a Haitian American rapper, singer, record producer, and politician. At age nine, Jean moved to the United States with his family and has spent much of his life in the country. He first received fame as a member of the acclaimed hip hop group The Fugees. On August 5, 2010, Jean filed for candidacy in the 2010 Haitian presidential election, although the Electoral Commission subsequently ruled him ineligible to stand as he had not met the requirement to have been resident in Haiti for five years.

The music that Wyclef Jean has written, performed, and produced — both as a solo superstar and as founder and guiding member of the Fugees — has been a consistently powerful, pop cultural force for over two decades. In 1996, the Fugees released their monumental album The Score. As a solo artist, Wyclef has released seven albums that have sold nearly nine million copies worldwide, including his 1997 debut The Carnival and 2000’s aptly titled The Eclectic: 2 Sides II a Book. Jean’s 2017 studio album, Carnival III: The Fall and Rise of a Refugee, his first in eight years, was released on Sept. 15, 2017. The album was named one of the “25 Most Anticipated Albums” of the fall by Billboard Magazine that year. In November 2017, Wyclef also released a mixtape, entitled, “Inspired By…” that paid tribute to the music that inspired him that year. The project received high acclaim from critics and fans alike. In December 2017, Wyclef wrote and performed a song, “Dimelo,” along with X-Factor winners, Rak-Su. The song rose to the top of the charts in less than a week in the UK. Wyclef recently released his newest project, Wyclef Goes Back to School, a collaboration with students he met while touring the United States and visiting colleges across the country, which features singles “Demons Enjoy,” “Baba” and “Faded Butterfly.”

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Redemption Song lyrics:

Old pirates, yes, they rob I
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the Almighty
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly

Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
Cause all I ever have
Redemption songs
Redemption songs

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds!
Have no fear for atomic energy
Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look?
Some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fulfill the book

Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
Cause all I ever have
Redemption songs
Redemption songs
Redemption songs

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds!
Whoa! Have no fear for atomic energy
Cause none of them-ah can-ah stop-ah the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fulfill the book

Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
Cause all I ever have
Redemption songs

Written by Bob Marley

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Typo catcher: Wyclef John, Wycleff Jean, Wycliffe Jean, Wycleaf Jon, Wylcef Jeans