CULTURETECHLENSSean Kingston
VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)
Combined Graph record U-07006 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5740.
Sean Kingston, born Kisean Paul Anderson on 3 February 1990 in Miami, Florida, is a Jamaican-American singer and rapper. Signed to J.R. Rotem's Beluga Heights with Koch and Epic in 2007, he topped the Hot 100 that year with his debut single "Beautiful Girls"; his self-titled debut album peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200. The second album Tomorrow (2009) produced the Top 5 single "Fire Burning," and he collaborated with Justin Bieber on "Eenie Meenie" (2010). Through his own Time Is Money Entertainment he signed Tory Lanez in 2010. In March 2025 he was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and four counts of wire fraud, and on 15 August 2025 he was sentenced to three and a half years in federal prison, per Associated Press reporting.
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Sean Kingston, born Kisean Paul Anderson on 3 February 1990 in Miami, Florida, is a Jamaican-American singer and rapper. Signed to J.R. Rotem's Beluga Heights with Koch and Epic in 2007, he topped the Hot 100 that year with his debut single "Beautiful Girls"; his self-titled debut album peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200. The second album Tomorrow (2009) produced the Top 5 single "Fire Burning," and he collaborated with Justin Bieber on "Eenie Meenie" (2010).
The record
- Also known as: Kisean Paul Anderson, Kisean Anderson
Notes
Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 1 — 747 Program, Wave 7; first packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Sean Kingston entity in the live graph at 3,443 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5740 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 214 (R&B Singers list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Jamaican-American recording figure — diaspora scope. Vital status: LIVING — sentenced in federal court 15 August 2025; listed as incarcerated. CONFLICTS CARRIED: His middle name appears as "Jamal" in an older Last.fm biography and as "Paul" in court/AP reporting and current profiles. The court-supported form, Paul, governs. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): "Beautiful Girls" reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (2007); debut album Sean Kingston peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 — Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and label/press photography of this subject exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5740-sean-kingston.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject; the three catalog string-hits for "Ne-Yo" resolve to Nina Simone and John Coltrane rows, not Ne-Yo billings); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio; the subject's recordings are third-party copyrighted material). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings are third-party )
Relationships
- Tory Lanez — related to
Sean Kingston signed Tory Lanez to his Time Is Money Entertainment in 2010 and was his early supporter (AllMusic).
Sources
- Wikipedia, "Sean Kingston" — born Kisean Paul Anderson, 3 February 1990, Miami; Beluga Heights signing; "Beautiful Girls" No. 1; debut album No. 6; signed Tory Lanez (2010) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Kingston (build store)
- Stereogum, AP report (August 2025) — March 2025 wire-fraud convictions; sentenced 15 August 2025 to 3.5 years' federal prison — https://stereogum.com/2319455/sean-kingston-sentenced-to-3-5-years-in-prison-for-1m-wire-fraud-scheme/news (primary source · build store)
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