Drake (musician)

The full name of the artist is Aubrey Drake Graham, he was born on October 24, 1986 in Toronto in the family of African American Dennis Graham and Jewish Sandra Sher. At one time, Dennis was a famous musician and collaborated with the legendary Jerry Lee Lewis, but he traded his musical career for drugs. After the first term for the distribution of narcotic substances, he promised his wife to quit, but did not keep his word.

The most successful rapper in the history of hip-hop, Drake began his series of mixtapes. In just a few years, an ordinary Canadian guy became a rap idol, collected a heap of prestigious awards and became one of the most influential musicians in the world.

CHILDHOOD

The full name of the artist is Aubrey Drake Graham, he was born on October 24, 1986 in Toronto in the family of African American Dennis Graham and Jewish Sandra Sher. At one time, Dennis was a famous musician and collaborated with the legendary Jerry Lee Lewis, but he traded his musical career for drugs. After the first term for the distribution of narcotic substances, he promised his wife to quit, but did not keep his word.

Sandra did not want to wait for her husband to deign to settle down, and divorced him. From constant experiences, she began to progress rheumatoid arthritis, which she suffered from her youth. Together with her five-year-old son, Sandra moved to the outskirts of Toronto, and Dennis again went to jail.

The woman was helped to raise her son by her brother, who owned a small custom-made furniture business. Suffering from pain in her joints, she stopped working and devoted all her time to raising her son. Aubrey went to a Jewish school, studied music and literature.

Having learned about the next release of her ex-husband, Sandra did not interfere with his communication with her son. Aubrey was a reasonable guy, and she was not afraid that Dennis would have a bad influence on him.

THE BEGINNING OF A CAREER

Sandra made sure that her son devoted every minute of his time to study and creativity. After classes at school, Aubrey attended a theater group, went in for sports, tap dance, ballet and music.

His friend's father was a casting agent, it was thanks to him that fifteen-year-old Aubrey landed a significant role in the popular youth project Degrassi. Filming in the series and the first popularity prevented Aubrey, who even then began to call himself Drake, to study at a prestigious college, and he left school with a light heart and to the strong displeasure of his mother.

In the series, Drake played several seasons, and when the filming ended, he already knew that he did not want to be an actor. In addition, Sandra felt worse and worse, Drake had to take care of his mother, and the money he received for participating in Degrassi was not enough for this.

CALL OF BLOOD

According to Drake, music is in his blood, because his father played with Jerry Lee himself, and his grandmother nursed future soul queen Aretha Franklin. By the beginning of 2006, the young man was seriously interested in music, and finally Dennis, who had settled down, advised him to dilute the recitative with singing. Subsequently, this will become Drake's trademark and he will be grateful to his father for advice.

After two mixtapes that instantly became popular, in 2009 Drake released a mini "So Far Gone" under October's Very Own label. The disc included seven tracks that reliably drove the name of Drake into the heads of even those who were far from rap music.

RAP CRUNER #1

A combination of rapping and singing, polished by Dionne Osbourne's vocal lessons, as well as a sense of style and the ability to express what he feels, made Drake a star before his debut album was released. Mini "So Far Gone" went gold and was named the best rap album of 2010. All subsequent Drake albums met the same fate. The first full-length album "Thank Me Later", released in the summer of 2010, confirmed the birth of a new star. The album contains 14 songs, including the gentle "The Resistance", the melancholy "Fancy" and, of course, "Find You Love", in which Drake uniquely wove vocals with a leisurely beat.

“Take Care” followed, and the hip-hop community, which, contrary to speculation, is a very conservative subculture, was forced to accept new rules of the game. The third album "Nothing Was the Same" unconditionally became the best album of 2013 and amazed the listeners with its emotional power, the revelation of a man who does not even try to seem brutal, as is customary in hip-hop culture. Here Drake is amazingly sincere. He can afford to appear weak and vulnerable. The album was created with the participation of Drake's old friends Noah "40" Shebib and Dionne Osbourne.

The subtle and lyrical Drake was neither black nor white, he sang more than he read and balanced on that fine line that separates art from vulgarity.

In “Views” and “More Life” released two years later, Drake again sings about love, and in such a way that everyone wants to sing along with him. "More Life" features Kanye West and Sampha. Drake's commercial success breaks all records, and fans fight to the death, arguing which of his compositions is better. Luxurious video clips take first place in all sorts of hit parades and charts. In just a few years, the guy from Toronto managed to create a unique style and become one of the most influential musicians in the world. DRAKE'S

PERSONAL LIFE

Aubrey is a big lover of women and does not even think to hide it. Reporters vying with each other talk about his novels. It is known that he was in love with Nicki Minaj and met with Rihanna, the break with which he was painfully worried.

In 2017, he appeared at events with the famous NBC reporter Rosalynn Gold-Onwood, and in early 2018 with an Instagram model with a strange name Malaika for a Russian ear. In the summer of 2018, it became known that the French porn actress gave birth to a child from Drake. But which of them will be Drake's chosen one? Who will get the fabulously expensive collection of Birkin bags that he put together for his future wife?

The musician is not ready to answer this question, but one thing is clear to everyone. The main woman of his life is still his mother. Sandra is an amazingly beautiful woman, and Drake is very proud of her. For her, he bought a house in Toronto and often visits her. The musician himself lives in California, he has a huge estate with a real castle, waterfalls and a park area, which is decorated with statues of puffy women.

On March 5, the fourth mini-album Scary Hours 2 was released, it contains guest appearances from Lil Baby and Rick Ross.

In September 2021, the rapper releases his 6th studio album "Certified Lover Boy", the release of which has been postponed several times. On the new record, collaborations with Drake featured such artists as Jay-Z, Kid Cudi, Lil Baby, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Young Thug, Future, 21 Savage, Tems, Project Pat, Yebba, Giveon and Ty Dolla $ign. The track listing of the album and the guest artists were kept strictly secret and were only revealed to the public a few hours before the release.