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10 Things you don’t know about Sean Paul
- Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques better known as Sean Paul
- Sean Paul was raised as a Catholic
- Growing up he was selling Ganja on the backstreets of Kingston
- Sean Paul played for the national water polo team from the age of 13 to 21
- He went to University of Technology, where he was trained in commerce with an aim of pursuing an occupation in hotel management
- His nicknames were Zion Lion and King of Israel
- Paul’s biggest hits included “Get Busy”, “Like Glue”, “Gimme the Light”, “Baby Boy”, and “I’m Still in Love with You” from his second album.
- The video of “Give It Up to Me” (featuring Keyshia Cole) was also featured in the movie Step Up in 2006. He was nominated for four awards at the 2006 Billboard Music Awards, including male artist of the year, rap artist of the year, hot 100 single of the year, and pop single of the year for his hit “Temperature”. He also won an American Music Award for “(When You Gonna) Give It Up to Me”
- In an effort to raise money for a children’s hospital, Shaggy, Sean Paul and others had a benefit concert. All proceeds went towards getting new equipment and technology ‘For Aid to the Bustamante Hospital for Children’
- In 2013, Paul featured on the single “What About Us” by British Girl Group The Saturdays. The single went straight in to the Official UK Charts at number 1 with over 100,000 sales in its first week
