Aubrey Drake Graham (born October 24, 1986) is a Canadian rapper and singer better known as Drake. Drake, a prominent character in modern popular music, is credited with popularising singing and R&B tendencies in hip-hop.
Following his success as Jimmy Brooks in the CTV adolescent drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001-08), he embarked on a singing career in 2006, releasing his debut mixtape Room for Improvement in February of that year. Before joining with Young Money Entertainment, he released the mixtapes Comeback Season (2007) and So Far Gone (2009).
What are the career achievements of Drake?
Drake is the highest-certified digital singles artist in the United States, with 142 million units sold through combined sales and on-demand streams. “God’s Plan” (15 Platinum) is his most certified single, followed by “Hotline Bling” and “One Dance,” both certified Diamond. Drake was the most streamed artist on Spotify in the 2010s.
He owns multiple Billboard Hot 100 chart records, including the most charted songs of any musician (321, to be exact), the most concurrently charted songs in a single week, the most number-one debuts, the most debuts in a week, the most top 10 singles, the most top 10 debuts, the most top 10 singles in a calendar year,
Drake has four Grammy Awards from 47 nominations as of 2021. He has also received a total of 29 Billboard Music Awards. In 2017, he broke Adele’s record for most Billboard Music Awards wins in a single night, winning 13 out of 22 nominations. At the 2021 Billboard Music Awards, he was selected Artist of the Decade.
“Drake managed to rule hip-hop in 2014,” said Billboard editor Ernest Baker, adding that “the best rapper in 2014 didn’t need a new album or hit single to prove his dominance.” Drake ranked in the top five of the Billboard Year-End Top Artists chart from 2015 to 2017, before topping it in 2018. He was named IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year in 2016 and 2018.
Meanwhile, Drake, Aubrey Graham was born in Toronto, Ontario, on October 24, 1986. Dennis Graham, his father, is an African-American Catholic drummer from Memphis who has previously performed with country performer Jerry Lee Lewis. Sandra “Sandi” Graham, his mother, is a Canadian Ashkenazi Jew who worked as an English teacher and florist. Sandra was in the audience when Graham performed at Club Bluenote in Toronto. Drake is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada, with the former descended from Graham. He attended a Jewish day school and got a bar mitzvah in his teens.
Drake was five years old when his parents divorced. He and his mother remained in Toronto after the divorce; his father went to Memphis, where he was detained for several years on drug-related charges. Graham remained in the United States until Drake was in his early twenties due to financial constraints and legal concerns. Graham would travel to Toronto and bring Drake to Memphis every summer before his incarceration. Graham alleged in an interview that Drake’s claims of being an absent parent were embellishments designed to sell records, something Drake categorically disputes.
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