Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, and Pras Michel will reunite for the first time in fifteen years for a world tour celebrating twenty-five years of The Score album.
Their first shows together in fifteen years will take them across the United States, through London and Paris, and into Nigeria and Ghana this November and December.
Fugees broke out with The Score in 1996, a wildly successful second album that made them household names with singles such as “Ready or Not” and “Killing Me Softly.”
Over the next decade, the group hung together despite internal rifts, legal trouble, and solo sidelines—including Hill’s landmark, Grammy-sweeping Miseducation album—before conclusively splitting in 2006, at least in part due to romantic complications between Wyclef and Hill, according to Jean’s memoir.
Pras Michel said in 2007 that there was “a better chance of seeing Osama Bin Laden and George Bush in Starbucks having a latte, discussing foreign policies,” than of his working with Hill again.
In recent years, while Michel and Jean spoke of reconciliation, Hill remained tight-lipped on the prospect of a reunion—until now.
In a press release, Hill said “The Fugees have a complex but impactful history…. I decided to honour this significant project, its anniversary, and the fans who appreciated the music by creating a peaceful platform where we could unite, perform the music we loved, and set an example of reconciliation for the world.”
Jean also says as he celebrates 25 years with the Fugees, his first memory was that they vowed, from the gate, they would not just do music but they would be a movement.
They would be a voice for the unheard, and in these challenging times, he is grateful that God has brought them together.
