Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques (born January 9, 1973), simply known as Sean Paul, is a Jamaican ragga and hip hop musician. Sean Paul was born in Kingston, Jamaica and spent his early years "comfortably" in Upper Saint Andrew Parish, a few miles north of his birthplace.His parents, Garth and Frances, were both talented athletes, and his mother is a well-known painter. His paternal grandfather was a Sephardic Jew whose family immigrated from Portugal, and his paternal grandmother was Afro-Caribbean; his mother is of English and Chinese Jamaican descent. Sean Paul was raised a Catholic. Many members of his family are swimmers.