Kisean Paul Anderson (born February 3, 1990, age 35), known professionally as Sean Kingston, is a Jamaican-American former singer. Born in Miami, Florida, and raised in Jamaica, he signed with J. R. Rotem's record label Beluga Heights Records, in a joint venture with Koch and Epic Records in 2007. The label released his 2007 debut single "Beautiful Girls", which peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100 and served as lead single for his eponymous debut studio album (2007). It peaked at number six on the Billboard 200 and spawned the top 40-single "Take You There", while his second album, Tomorrow (2009), saw a commercial decline, but spawned the top five-single "Fire Burning". His third album, Back 2 Life (2013), failed to chart and served as his final release on a major label, but spawned the moderate hit "Beat It" (featuring Chris Brown and Wiz Khalifa).
As a guest star on Yo Gabba Gabba!, he appears as a Dancey Dance friend who teaches the Gabba gang a dance called "The Mini Spinney" in Season 1 episode "Find".
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- He is the first of three children to Janice Turner.
- When he was six, his family moved to their native Kingston, Jamaica.
- His grandfather was the noted Jamaican reggae producer Lawrence "Jack Ruby" Lindo.
- In May 2011, he was involved in a near-fatal jet skiing accident in Miami and was immediately rushed to the hospital. He was required to pay a $180 fine for careless operation. By 2018, he had begun to ride jet skis again.
- On May 23, 2024, his rented mansion in Southwest Ranches, Florida, was raided by a police SWAT team, and his mother was arrested, the warrant issuing several instances of alleged fraud and theft. Hours later, he was arrested himself in California after a concert in Fort Irwin.
- In July 2024, he and his mother were indicted on several federal wire fraud charges. They were convicted in March 2025. His mother was sentenced to five years in prison on July 23, 2025, while he was given three and a half years on August 15, 2025.
- He appeared with one of his dogs in a 2010 PETA ad, encouraging people not to chain their dogs outside.