Roo AOTD #78 Sean Paul

All aboard the hype train for Bonnaroo 2024! Only 51 days until we are all on the Farm again, can you believe it? It’s coming up fast and we can’t wait to be dancing with all of you at Bonnaroo! Today’s Artist of the Day is the one and only Sean Paul. Learn more about the artist below. Don’t forget to check out all of our artist spotlights! Thank you for reading these posts!

Artist Biography

Sean Paul, aka Sean Paul Francis Henriques, is a Jamaican dancehall vocalist who became a global music icon in the early 2000s. He was born on January 9th, 1973 in St. Andrew, Jamaica. His mother, Frances Henriques, was a renowned painter. Sean Paul was a skilled athlete who took to swimming and water polo. He played for the Jamaican national water polo team. Instead of choosing a normal career path post graduating, Sean Paul became a dancehall music DJ as this genre of music was his first love. Throughout the 1990s he built a following in Jamaica that eventually spilled over into the U.S. in 1999. He was first commissioned to work on the track “Here Comes the Boom” for rapper DMX the same year while also making it to the Top Ten on the Billboard rap charts with “Hot Gal Today.” His first album Stage One came out in 2000 but it wasn’t until his second album, 2022’s Dutty Rock, that he saw critical success. The album won a Grammy, featured the track “Baby Boy” with Beyoncé, and quickly went multi-platinum. Sean Paul’s next album The Trinity came in 2005 and peaked at number seven of the Billboard 200. For the next ten years, he kept in the mainstream for reggae, and in 2016 made a hurt resurgence with appearances on Sia’s “Cheap Thrills”, Little Mix’s “Hair”, Clean Bandit’s “Rockabye”, and Dua Lipa’s “No Lie.” Since then, he has worked with David Guetta, Ellie Goulding, Migos, and even Idris Elba on the 2019 track “Boasty.” His most recent album is 2022’s Scorcha.

Genre

DJ, Reggae, Pop

Scheduled at Bonnaroo

Saturday (Link to Daily Schedules)