嘻哈天王宣布竞选海地总统(双语)

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2010年08月09日 10:50   环球时报
   
海地嘻哈天王“怀克里夫-金”
　　According to Daily Mail, the Haitian hip-hop kings Wyclef Jean announced that he would run for Haiti’s next year’s President with the term of 5 years. Haiti’s current president, Rene Preval’s term will end in Feb next year with no re-election on Nov 28’s election, so Wyclef Jean expresses that he would like to take part in the upcoming election to help people to rebuilt their homeland.

　　The January 12 quake, which killed more than 200,000 and left nearly 2 million homeless, flipped a switch in the rapper, who was born in Haiti and raised in Brooklyn.

　　“If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything, ” Jean told Time magazine, “If not for the earthquake, I probably would have waited another 10 years before doing this,”

　　Wyclef Jean were awarded Grammy three times, and once one member of the Hip-Hop Fugees, getting high reputation in the native. He launched “Yele Haiti” in 2005 and has been doing charity work to improve the proverty problem in Caribbean Sea area.

　　据英国每日邮报报道，海地嘻哈天王“怀克里夫-金”(Wyclef Jean)宣布下一届竞选任期5年的海地总统一职。海地现任总统勒内？普雷瓦尔(Rene Preval)的任期即将于明年2月结束，并且不能在今年11月28日的大选中寻求连任，因此怀克里夫-金表示自己愿意参选即将到来的总统大选，以帮助震后人民重建家园。

　　海地今年1月12日发生致命的强震，造成20多万人死亡，将近2百万人流离失所，目前全国仍处于震后修复阶段。地震强烈震撼了这位说唱歌手，他在海地出生，在布鲁克林长大。

　　怀克里夫-金在接受《时代》杂志的采访时说：“如果我无法赢得下一届任期5年的总统选举为我的国家服务，那么我以前说唱的那些诸如‘平等权利’的倡导就一点意义也没有。而如果不是年初的这场大地震，我参选的愿望可能要再延迟10年。”

　　怀克里夫-金曾是三次格莱美奖得主，之前是嘻哈团体Fugees的成员之一，在当地享有较高声誉。他于2005年创办了海地基金会，一直在从事改善加勒比贫困地区面貌的慈善工作