Sean Paul - January 9, 1973

Sean Paul

Born:  January 9, 1973
Birthplace:  Kingston, Jamaica
Zodiac Sign:  Capricorn

Career and Life

Sean Paul Francis Henriques is a Jamaican dancehall rapper, singer and record producer.


Sean Paul was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to parents Garth and Frances. His mother is a painter. His paternal grandfather emigrated from Portugal and his paternal grandmother was Afro-Caribbean; 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.


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