Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques was born in Kingston on 9 January 1973. His mother Frances, a painter,[12][13] is of English and Chinese Jamaican descent.[14][15] His paternal great-grandfather's family, Sephardic Jews from Portugal, emigrated to Jamaica in the 17th century.[16] Paul’s father also has Afro-Jamaican ancestry.[17] Paul's father, Garth Henriques, was believed to be descended from Portuguese horse thieves who were fleeing from bounty hunters in a ship that sank in Jamaica.[18]

Paul was raised as a Catholic, although he also attended the Jewish private school Hillel Academy in Jamaica.

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