Wyclef is a brilliant musician

[WeDidIt]

I'm going to buy some of his CDs.

Damn, Hatian Creole music has as much soul as Reggae.

[FrenchieCat]

1. Is it over?

:(

[WeDidIt]

3. Not that I can see

Anderson Cooper is doing his part right now. They've been cutting to him all night.

[spanone]

2. yea, that was fun

[jillan]

4. Seriously - someone unrec'd this thread?

Trying to bring it back into positive territory cuz I concur with the OP.

[babylonsister]

5. Yes, it's great! Buy CDs from Wyclef! Support Haiti, like he does! nt

[malaise]

6. Zouk - we love it

French creole music which actually started in Martinique and Guadeloupe but has been perfected by Wyclef et al.

[BunkerHill24]

7. It's a shame the controversy surrounding Wylef and his YELE charity

I hope he would address it proper and handed over to someone other group for the sake of Haitian people. Mind you, I'm not saying anything improper was done by him....just so that it would not reflect badly on the cause.

[tabatha]

10. He has hired a new accounting firm.

[BunkerHill24]

12. He should not just hire a new accounting firm, but to give up entirely the

hands-on-hands-on-cash in order to free himself the contraverse surrounding the cause.

[tabatha]

13. Tell me where you got

the "hands-on-hands-on-cash". There was none.

[BunkerHill24]

14. That was the accusation made against him...that he is involved in use of

charity's money. CNN reported, NPR reported, NBC reported.....even France 24 reported. It was hard to miss!

[tabatha]

15. Depends upon who is commenting.

According to an IRS tax return from 2006, the Yele Haiti foundation paid $250,000 to buy airtime from Telemax S.A., a for-profit TV station in Haiti that is majority owned by Jean and business partner Jerry Duplessis, who is also on the foundation board.

Part of that money went to pay for a concert in Haiti put on by Jean himself, said foundation president Hugh Locke.

Another $160,000 that year was spent on a concert in Monte Carlo that Jean participated in, of which $75,000 paid for backup singers and $25,000 went to Jean through Platinum Sound Recording Studios Inc., a company he owns with Duplessis, Locke said.

Yele Haiti took in $1.1 million in total revenue that year.

John Colombo, a University of Illinois law professor specializing in tax-exempt organizations, said tax laws permit such fees.

"If you told me the organization raised $1 million and it all went to him, then I would have some issues," Colombo said. "Paying him an arm's length salary for services he actually performed just isn't a problem."

[BunkerHill24]

16. "Paying him an arm's length salary for services he actually performed just isn't a problem."

So he's billed his own charity services he performed? Is that right?

Besides, if he's true to his charity, regardless of what was said about him, if he's clean, he would transferee the mantle, and ignore the said discrepancies. That's all!

[tabatha]

17. Apparently that is not unusual

and he charged less than others.

He was paid by the charity to perform so that the charity could raise money.

[BunkerHill24]

18. The longer we talk about this the longer many would doubt

the sincerity of whatever we discuss here. I suggest we leave it AS IS!

Thank you for putting out such necessary facts this contraverse deserves.

[bigwillq]

8. Always been a big fan of his.

I've seen him in concert once with the Fugees and once solo. Great talent.

[glinda]

9. loved it. He rocks.

[KeepItReal]

11. Get "The Carnival" his first solo CD

Got terrific tracks like "Gone til November"