Jimmy O

Jean Jimmy Alexandre (March 9, 1974 – January 12, 2010), better known by his stage name Jimmy O, was a Haitian hip hopartist^[1] who was born in Port-au-Prince and lived in New York City.^[2] He was involved with Wyclef Jean's Yéle Haiti Foundation.^[1]Jimmy O performed his music in Haitian Creole.

In 2006, he and Jean held a hip-hop performance in the Bel Air suburb of Port-au-Prince that was part of the USAID-funded Clean Streets project.^[4] The following year, he and other Haitian artists held a concert in the Champ de Mars, the largest public square in the capital, along with Wyclef Jean, Akon, and Matt Damon.

On January 12, 2010, at age 35, Jimmy O was crushed inside a vehicle he was apparently driving in downtown Port-au-Princeduring the 2010 Haiti earthquake.^[1] His mother, his wife, two of his three children, his agent, and a CNN crew were present when Jimmy O's body was discovered and identified three days later. His agent said that the loss of Jimmy O "will be tremendous in Haiti."

At the time of his death he was preparing to release his debut album Destiny in the United States.