Aubrey Drake Graham is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and businessman. He gained recognition as an actor on the teen drama television series Degrassi: The Next Generation in the early 2000s. He left the series in 2007 after releasing his debut mixtape, Room for Improvement. He released two further independent projects, Comeback Season and So Far Gone, before signing to Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment on June 2009.
Drake is famous for a rapper and singer.
Drake was born on October 24, 1986, in Toronto, Ontario. He holds Canadian nationality and belongs to African-American ethnicity. His birth sign is Scorpio and religion is Jewish. He was born to a father named Dennis Graham and a mother named Sandi Graham. His father is an African American and worked as a drummer, performing alongside country musician Jerry Lee Lewis and his mother is a Jewish Canadian who worked as an English teacher and florist. He attended a Jewish day school and formally celebrated becoming a Bar Mitzvah in a religious service. His parents divorced when he was five years old. After the divorce, he and his mother remained in Toronto, while his father returned to Memphis, where he was incarcerated for a number of years on drug-related charges. He attended Forest Hill Collegiate Institute, where he demonstrated an affinity for the arts, first acting while an active student at the school. Later, he attended Vaughan Road Academy in the city's multicultural Oakwood-Vaughan neighborhood. He was often bullied in school for his racial and religious background, and upon realizing that his busy class schedule was detrimental to his burgeoning acting career, he dropped out of school. Later, he graduated in October 2012.
Drake started acting after the father of one of his friends, an acting agent, offered him a role in the Canadian teen drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation. He played the role of Jimmy Brooks, a wheel-chair-bound former basketball player. He has acted in a number of other television series over the years, including Soul Food, Being Erica, and Sophie and also made guest appearances on Beyond the Break, Saturday Night Live, and Punk'd. He did voice acting for the film Ice Age: Continental Drift. He decides to self-release his debut mixtape Room for Improvement. His next mixtape Comeback Season which contained the single Replacement Girl that earned him widespread recognition as a singer for the first time. He released his third mixtape So Far Gone as a free download from the website of his record label. He released his debut EP by the same name following the success of the mixtape, which made it to No.6 on the Billboard 200. His debut studio album Thank Me Later was released on June 15, 2010. On November 15, 2011, he released his second studio album Take Care. His third album Nothing Was the Same continued his journey to fame, opening to positive reviews like its predecessors. He released his fourth studio album Views on April 29, 2016.
Drake has received 3 Grammy Awards from 35 nominations. His album Take Care was named Best Rap Album in 2013, while his song Hotline Bling won two awards in 2017. He has won a total of 80 awards from 330 nominations over the years.
Drake has a height of 6 feet (1.83m) tall and body weight of 89 kg. He has chest size is 44 inches, waist size is 34 inches, and biceps size is 16 inches. He has black hair and dark brown eyes.
Drake is an unmarried man. He is a father to one son named Adonis to French artist Sophie Brussaux. Sophie pregnancy was the subject of several rumours after featuring in a TMZ article in early 2017. He eventually confirmed his fatherhool on the album Scorpion in 2018. He dated singer Rihanna off-on from 2009 to 2016. He has mentioned the relationship in every one of his studio albums and when presenting Rihanna with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award in 2016.
Drake has an estimated net worth of $35 million and his salary is unknown. He earns a good amount of money from his professional career.