Drake (musician)
Aubrey Drake Graham is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, and entrepreneur. He first gained recognition as an actor on the teen drama television series Degrassi: The Next Generation. Drake released his debut studio album Thank Me Later in 2010, which debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200. He achieved major critical success with Take Care, and commercial success with Nothing Was the Same and his first commercial mixtape If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late. His fourth album Views sat atop the Billboard 200 for 13 nonconsecutive weeks, becoming the first album by a male solo artist to do so in over a decade. In 2018, he released the double album Scorpion, which produced three number-one singles
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Aubrey Drake Graham is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, and entrepreneur. He first gained recognition as an actor on the teen drama television series Degrassi: The Next Generation. Drake released his debut studio album Thank Me Later in 2010, which debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200. He achieved major critical success with Take Care, and commercial success with Nothing Was the Same and his first commercial mixtape If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late. His fourth album Views sat atop the Billboard 200 for 13 nonconsecutive weeks, becoming the first album by a male solo artist to do so in over a decade. In 2018, he released the double album Scorpion, which produced three number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100. As an entrepreneur, Drake founded the OVO Sound record label with longtime collaborator 40 in 2012. In 2013, Drake was announced as the new \”global ambassador\” of the Toronto Raptors, thereby joining the executive committee of the NBA franchise. In 2016, Drake announced his development with American entrepreneur Brent Hocking of the bourbon whiskey Virginia Black; it eventually broke sale records in Canada. Drake is ranked as the world’s highest-certified digital singles artist by the RIAA. He has won four Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards, a record 27 Billboard Music Awards,. two Brit Awards and three Juno Awards. Drake also holds several Billboard chart records; he has the most top 10 hits on the billboard Hot 100, the most simultaneously charted Hot 100 songs in a single week, the most continuous time on the Hot 100, and the most Hot 100 debuts in a week.
His father, Dennis Graham, is African American and a practising Catholic from Memphis, Tennessee, who worked as a drummer, performing alongside country musician Jerry Lee Lewis. His mother, Sandra \”Sandi\” Graham, is an Ashkenazi Jew who works as an English teacher and florist. He is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. In his youth, he attended a Jewish day school, and became a bar mitzvah. He and his mother remained in Toronto; his father returned to Memphis, where he was incarcerated for a number of years on drug-related charges. Graham claimed in an interview that Drake’s assertions of him being an absent father were embellishments used to sell records, which Drake vehemently denies. He lived on Weston Road in the city’s working-class west end until the end of grade six. He then moved to one of the affluent neighbourhoods, Forest Hill, in 2000. He later attended the Forest Hill Collegiate Institute where he demonstrated an affinity for the arts, first acting at the school’s multicultural Academy. In 2012, he became an acting student at the Oakwood Academy’s Academy of the Arts. He also appeared in the music video for a song titled \”Drake’s Dad\”. His father later collaborated with Canadian music group Arkells on the musicvideo for asong titled “I Love You”
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