The Fugees

. For the Democratic candidate for District 25 in Texas and the former head of the Houston NAACP, please see Al Green (politician). They appeared onstage together at an exclusive block party in New York City that month, hosted by Dave Chappelle.
. In September 2004, it was announced that The Fugees have settled their differences and are currently working on a new album. The next year, Green was inducted into the Gospel Music Association's Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Though the Fugees remain tight-lipped about the exact reasons, most fans believe that a serious personality conflict between Hill and Jean contributed to their breakup following The Score. Green released in 2003 a non-religious (secular) album entitled I Can't Stop, his first collaboration with Willie Mitchell since 1985's He is the Light.

After each member found success in other ventures, the Fugees failed to reform. The Grammys presented Green with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002. After 1997, the Fugees all began solo projects: Hill started work on her critically acclaimed The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Jean began producing for a number of artists (including Destiny's Child and Carlos Santana) and recorded his debut album The Carnival, and Michel, with Mya and Ol' Dirty Bastard, recorded the single "Ghetto Superstar" for the soundtrack to the Warren Beatty/Halle Berry film Bulworth. In 2000, Green published Take Me to the River, a book discussing his career. The Fugees won two 1997 Grammy Awards: The Score won for Best Rap Album, and "Killing Me Softly With His Song" won for Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. Green's first secular album in some time was Your Heart's In Good Hands (1995), released to positive reviews but disappointing sales, the same year Green was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The album also included a re-interpretation of The Delfonics' "Ready or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide From Love)" in their hit single "Ready or Not". His 1994 duet with country music singer Lyle Lovett blended country with R&B, garnering him ninth Grammy, this time in a pop music category.

The Fugees were known for their unusual choice of covers and sampling sources on both albums; The Score, for example, included covers of "No Woman No Cry" (Bob Marley & the Wailers) and "Killing Me Softly (With His Song)" (Roberta Flack), which was their first and only #1 pop hit. First, he released a duet with Annie Lennox, "Put A Little Love In Your Heart" for Scrooged, a Bill Murray film. Despite the relative failure of their first album, The Score became one of the biggest hits of 1996 and was one of the first hip hop albums to incorporate reggae in a major way. After spending several years exclusively performing gospel, Green began to return to R&B. The trio released their first LP, Blunted on Reality, after a long period of performing, but the album failed to live up the expectations of fans who attended their concerts. In 1984 director Robert Mugge released a documentary film, The Gospel According to Al Green, including interviews about his life and footage from his church. Hill and Jean each went on to successful solo recording careers, while Michel focused mainly on soundtrack recordings and film acting. From 1981 to 1989 Green recorded a series of gospel recordings, garnering eight "soul gospel performance" Grammys in that period.

Deriving their name from the term "refugee", the group is noted for the integration of soul and reggae into their work, and recorded two albums--one of which, The Score, was a multi-platinum and Grammy-winning success--before going their separate ways after 1997. His first gospel album was The Lord Will Make a Way. Both Jean and Michel are of Haitian heritage; Hill is an African American native of South Orange, New Jersey. He then concentrated his energies towards pastoring his church and gospel singing, also appearing in 1982 with Patti Labelle in the musical Your Arms Too Short to Box With God. The members of the group are leader/rapper/producer Wyclef Jean, rapper/singer Lauryn Hill, and rapper Pras Michel. In 1979, Green was injured while performing and interpreted this accident as a message from God. The Fugees are an American music group, popular during the mid-1990s, whose repertoire includes primarily hip hop, with elements of soul, and Carribean music (particularly reggae). 1977's The Belle Album was critically acclaimed but did not regain his former mass audience.

Fugees Lyrics (http://www.lyricscafe.com/f/fugees.htm). Continuing to record R&B, Green saw his sales start to slip and the critics grew steadily harsher. Fugees Fansite (http://user.aol.com/Snicka/fugee2.htm). Green converted to Christianity after recovering from the assault and in 1976 became an ordained pastor of the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Memphis. 1996: "Ready or Not". She then killed herself in an adjacent bedroom. 1996: "Killing Me Softly (With His Song)" (US #1). On October 18, 1974, Green's girlfriend, Mary Woodson, poured boiling grits on him as he was showering, causing second-degree burns on his back, stomach and arm.

1995: "Fu-Gee-La" (US #29). Call Me was a critical sensation, and was also just as popular at the time; it is one of his most fondly remembered albums today. 1994: "Vocab". Let's Stay Together (1972) was an even bigger success, as was I'm Still In Love With You (1972). 1994: "Nappy Heads" (US #49). The next LP, though, Al Green Gets Next To You (1970), was a massive success that included four gold singles as Green developed his vocal and songwriting talents. 1996: The Score. The album was a moderate success.

1994: Blunted on Reality. Green's debut album with Hi Records was Green is Blue, a slow, horn-driven album that allowed Green to show off his powerful and expressive voice, with Mitchell arranging, engineering, and producing. Mitchell predicted stardom for Green, coaching him to find his own, unique voice at a time when Green had previously been trying to sing like his heroes Jackie Wilson, Wilson Pickett, James Brown, and Sam Cooke. Al Green met bandleader Willie Mitchell of Memphis' Hi Records in 1969, when Mitchell had hired him as a vocalist for a Texas show with Mitchell's band and then asked him to sign with the label. The Soul Mates' subsequent singles did not sell as well.

The band, now known as the Soul Mates, recorded "Back Up Train" and released it on Hot Line Music; the song was an R&B chart hit. Curtis Rogers and Palmer James, two members of the Creations, formed an independent label called Hot Line Music Journal. Green formed a group called Al Greene & the Creations in high school. He was kicked out of the group by his father because he was caught listening to Jackie Wilson.

They toured extensively in the mid-1950s in the South until the Greenes moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, when they began to tour around Michigan. The son of a sharecropper, he started out at age nine in a Forrest City quartet called the Greene Brothers; he dropped the final "e" from his last name years later as a solo artist. April 13, 1946) is an American gospel and soul music singer, born in Forrest City, Arkansas. Al Green (b.

Grammy Awards website (http://www.grammy.com). NPR interview (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1082212). Allmusic.com artist discussion (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=MIDMR0411300853&sql=11:y698s34ba3mg~T1). Biography at official artist website (http://www.algreenmusic.com/BIOGRAPHY.htm).

Al Green) #38 UK. 1989 "The Message is Love" (Arthur Baker and The Backbeat Disciples feat. 1988 "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" (with Annie Lennox) #9 US, #28 UK. 1977 "Keep Me Cryin'" #37 US.

1975 "Full of Fire" #28 US. 1975 "L-O-V-E (Love)" #13 US, #24 UK. 1974 "Livin' for You" #19 US. 1974 "Let's Get Married" #32 US.

1974 "Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy)" #7 US, #20 UK. 1973 "Here I am (Come and Take Me)" #10 US. 1973 "Call Me (Come Back Home)" #10 US. 1972 "You Ought to be with Me" #3 US.

1972 "Look What You Done for Me" #4 US. 1972 "I'm Still in Love with You" #3 US, #35 UK. 1972 "Let's Stay Together" #1 US, #7 UK. 1971 "Tired of Being Alone" #11 US, #4 UK.

2005 "Everything's OK". 2003 "The Love Songs Collection" (compilation) #91 US. 2003 "I Can't Stop" #53 US. 2002 "Love - The Essential Al Green" #18 UK.

2001 "Feels Like Christmas". 2000 "Take Me to the River" (compilation) #186 US. 1995 "Your Heart's in Good Hands". 1993 "Gospel Soul".

1992 "Love is Reality". 1989 "I Get Joy". 1988 "Hi Life - The Best of Al Green" #34 UK. 1987 "Soul Survivor" #131 US.

1986 "White Christmas". 1985 "He is the Light". 1984 "Trust in God". 1983 "The Christmas Album".

1983 "I'll Rise Again". 1982 "Precious Lord". 1981 "Tokyo Live". 1981 "Higher Plane".

1980 "The Lord Will Make a Way". 1978 "Truth N' Time". 2" #134 US. 1977 "Al Green's Greatest Hits, Vol.

1977 "The Belle Album" #103 US. 1976 "Have a Good Time" #93 US. 1976 "Full of Fire" #59 US. 1975 "Al Green's Greatest Hits" #17 US, #18 UK.

1975 "Al Green is Love" #28 US. 1974 "Al Green Explores Your Mind" #15 US. 1973 "Livin' for You" #24 US. 1973 "Call Me" #10 US.

1972 "Al Green" (compilation) #162 US. 1972 "I'm Still in Love with You" #4 US. 1972 "Let's Stay Together" #8 US. 1971 "Al Green Gets Next to You" #58 US.

1970 "Green is Blues" #19 US. 1967 "Back Up Train".