Lauryn Hill & Wyclef Jean Bring The Score To Miami Art Week
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Lauryn Hill is turning a Fugees anniversary into a Miami Art Week gathering where the music shares space with listeners’ own stories. She’s joining Wyclef Jean for a December 5 performance at Faena Forum in Miami Beach.
The set anchors The Fourth Space, a new Saint & Citizen event built around the 30th anniversary of The Score. Saint & Citizen’s event announcement pairs their performance with an exhibition tracing Black American and Haitian history, plus a short opening film.
That combination puts the people connected by the record alongside the artists who made it. “The Fourth Space is the one we create through shared culture, memory and experience,” Saint & Citizen CEO Paula Grant said in a statement quoted by Billboard.
The new booking follows Hill and Jean’s launch of the Fugees Hopeline, which invites callers to record personal reflections on hope. The artists’ original project announcement said selected recordings would enter an exhibition curated by Hill with Saint & Citizen.
That project gives listeners something to do beyond requesting their favorite record. Hill’s daughter Selah Marley narrates the phone experience, which also offers messages from the two artists and a new Fugees medley. The recordings are intended to grow into an international audio archive, giving ordinary callers a place in the anniversary alongside the group’s established history.
Hill has made visual work for the anniversary, too, creating three collages that combine archival photographs with typography. The images pull from three decades of the group’s history, extending the celebration beyond the songs people already know by heart.
The pair’s U.S. anniversary performances began November 4 at Berkeley’s Greek Theatre, with announced stops in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Seattle. Miami adds an art-focused gathering to a celebration that’s already traveled through concert venues.
The organizer’s ticket page lists free exhibition admission from 2-5 P.M. Eastern on December 5, with separate tickets for the evening program. Kaytranada leads the after-party with opening sets from Joe Kay, giving attendees another reason to stay after Hill and Jean leave the stage.
The official ticket listing says the December 5 event is limited to attendees aged 21 and older.
