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Wyclef Jean is down on our home soil to promote the Motorola's World wide Talent Competition

Aspiring artists can enter this competition by uploading their audition clips on www.motorokrstar.com or www.motorokrstar.mobi which has to be a rendition of one of the following songs:
• True Colours by Cyndi Lauper
• Big Girls Don’t Cry by Fergie
• Alone by Celine Dion
• Hit Me with your Best Shot by Pat Benatar
• So Emotional by Whitney Houston
• You Really Got Me by Wyclef Jean
• Gone ‘till November by Wyclef Jean
• Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis Presley
• Stand By Me by Ben E

The public can vote for their favourite audition clip by logging onto www.motorokrstar.com

The winner of the SA leg of the competition will get to fly to New York and join the global finalists as they embark on recording sessions with Wyclef and Fergie in February next year.

His first trip to the “Motherland” kicked off with a visit to Soweto on the 10th of December where he was hosted by the Tomorrow Trust which is an organisation aimed at spreading awareness over the issue of child headed households and other challenges faced by the youth. This was of no surprise since Haiti born Wyclef is an activist and humanitarian of note.

Aside from a private invites only gig at The Bassline in Newtown tonight, Jozi, unfortunately there are no scheduled gigs lined up for Wyclef during this visit, “I wanted my first visit to SA to be a learning experience and not be about Wyclef the superstar. I really wanted people to learn about Wyclef the person first and it is something that I usually do with places that I feel supernaturally connected to” he commented. But there is wind of a private performance tonight somewhere in Jozi.

He brought a fitting gift with during his trip, a song he composed to celebrate the life of late legend Lucky Dube, which he played for the assembled press. “Lucky Dube was one of the warmest people I knew” he said as he spoke about the legend. “I did a song for him which is not a song of mourning but a celebration of his life which I wanted to only release after my first visit to South Africa”.

People who do feature on his latest album Carnival Volume II: Memoirs of an Immigrant include Lil Wayne, Akon, Chamillionaire, Paul Simon, Shakira and T.I. let’s hope some SA talent features on the next one!