South Africa

1976-11-27

Born in Cape Town, South Africa. Jean is the daughter of South African Jazz musicians Sathima Bea Benjamin and Abdullah Ibrahim/Dollar Married Quelle Chris in 2018. Teaming up with Ocean and DJ Aggie in the mid '90's, forming the group Natural Resource, the crew put out a series of independent singles, which created quite a stir on New York's underground Hip-Hop scene. Picking up her Jean Grae moniker and dropping her former alias What? What? in '98 upon Natural Resource's break-up, Jean released her first LP "Attack of the Attacking Things" in 2002. Which was followed up by two further albums over the course of the next two years.

Tsidi Ibrahim, What? What?