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Grammy-winner Sean Paul to perform at 2025 Alaska State Fair

Sean Paul performs during the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 15, 2024, in Manchester, Tenn. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Grammy-winning Jamaican singer Sean Paul will perform at the 2025 Alaska State Fair.

The platinum hitmaker with multiple chart-topping songs will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 28, the fair announced Tuesday.

Paul rose to prominence in the 1990s, collaborating with other artists until his solo debut, “Stage One,” in 2000.

A master of the Jamaican dancehall genre, he won a Grammy for his 2004 album “Dutty Rock,” which featured hit singles “Gimme the Light” and “Get Busy.”

Tickets for the show go on sale 10 a.m. Friday at alaskastatefair.org.

Paul joins “Weird Al” Yankovic, Foreigner, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Chris Tomlin, Billy Currington and 3 Doors Down on the fair’s performer lineup.

The fair runs from Aug. 15 to Sep. 1 at the state fairgrounds in Palmer.

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