Aubrey Drake's Career and How He Succeeded in Singing, Writing, and Producing

Aubrey Drake Graham, (born October 24, 1986), known professionally as Drake, is a Canadian singer, rapper, songwriter, actor, producer, and entrepreneur.

Drake is a prominent figure in popular music, credited with popularizing the Toronto sound.

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He first gained recognition for starring in the drama television series Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001–2007); he pursued a career in music, leaving the series and releasing his debut mixtape Room for Improvement (2006). He then released the mixtapes Comeback Season (2007) and So Far Gone (2009), before signing with Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment.

Drake released his debut studio album, Thank Me Lighter, in 2010, which debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200. He achieved critical success with Take Care (2011), and commercial success with Nothing Was the Same (2013) and his debut mixtape, If You're Reading This It's Too Late (2015); both subsequent albums were certified multi-platinum in the US. Drake's fourth album, Views (2016), sat atop the Billboard 200 for 13 non-consecutive weeks, becoming the first album by a male solo artist to do so in over a decade. Drake's second solo mixtape, More Life (2017), was marketed as a playlist and set multiple streaming records. In 2018, he released the double album Scorpion, which spawned three Billboard Hot 100 singles. After leaving Young Money in 2018, Drake's third studio album, Dark Lane Dew Tapes, was released in 2020, featuring the Hot 100 number-one single "Toosy Slide." In 2021, the extended play, Scary Hours II, featured the Billboard Hot 100 number-one single "What's Next."

Drake founded the OVO Sound record label with longtime collaborator 40 in 2012. In 2013, Drake became the new "global ambassador" for the Toronto Raptors, joining the NBA franchise's executive committee and owning the naming rights to its practice facility, the OVO Athletic Centre. In 2016, he began collaborating with American businessman Brent Hocking on a bourbon whiskey-based drink called Virginia Black. It eventually broke sales records in Canada. Drake also designs fashion, most notably his sub-brand collaboration with Nike, along with other business ventures. In 2018, he was reportedly responsible for 5% ($440 million CAD) of Toronto's total annual tourism income of $8.8 billion CAD.

One of the world's best-selling music artists, with over 170 million records sold, Drake is ranked the top-certified digital singles artist in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America. He has won four Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards, 27 Billboard Music Awards, two Brit Awards, and three Juno Awards, and holds numerous Billboard chart records. Drake has the most top 10s on the Billboard Hot 100, the most number-one songs on the Hot 100 (231), the most simultaneous weeks on the Hot 100 (27), the most consecutive weeks on the Hot 100 (431 weeks), and the most number-one songs in a single week (22). He also has the most number-one singles on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Hot Rap Songs, and Rhythmic Airplay charts.

Drake attended Forest Hill Collegiate Institute (left) and Vaughan Road Academy (right). Aubrey Drake Graham was born on October 24, 1986, in Toronto, Ontario. His father, Dennis Graham, is an African-American practicing Catholic from Memphis, Tennessee, who worked as a drummer and played alongside country musician Jerry Lee Lewis. His mother, Sandra "Sandy" Graham (née Sher), is a Canadian of Ashkenazi Jewish descent who worked as an English teacher and florist. Dennis Graham performed at Club Bluenote in Toronto, where he met Sandra Sher, who was in attendance. Drake is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada, holding American citizenship through his American father. As a youth, he attended Jewish day school and had a bar mitzvah.

Drake's parents divorced when he was five years old. After the divorce, he and his mother remained in Toronto; his father returned to Memphis, where he was imprisoned for several years on drug charges. Graham's limited finances and legal issues caused him to remain in the United States until Drake was in his early adulthood. Prior to his arrest, Graham traveled to Toronto and brought Drake to Memphis every summer. His father later collaborated with the Canadian music group Arkles on the music video for a song titled "Drake Is Bad." Graham has claimed in an interview that Drake's assertions of being an absent father were embellishments used to sell records, a claim Drake vehemently denies.

He attended Forest Hill Collegiate Institute, where he showed an affinity for the arts, initially working as an active student. He later enrolled at Vaughan Road Academy in the city's multicultural Oakwood-Vaughan neighborhood. Due to the neighborhood's economic status, Drake described the school as "by no means the easiest school to go to." Drake was often bullied at school due to his ethnic and religious background, and when he realized his busy class schedule was detrimental to his burgeoning acting career, Drake dropped out. He later graduated in October 2012.

Drake dated singer Rihanna sporadically between 2009 and 2016. He has mentioned the relationship on every one of his studio albums, and when he presented Rihanna with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award in 2016, he said, "She's a woman I've loved since I was 22." Regarding his previous relationship with her, he said on the talk show The Shop:

When life happens and you learn your lessons, I end up in this situation where I don't have a fairy tale, like, "Oh, Drake started a family with Rihanna and that's so perfect." It sounds so good on paper. By the way, I wanted that too at one point.

Drake is the father of his son, Adonis, born on October 11, 2017, to French painter and former model Sophie Brusseau. Brusseau's pregnancy was the subject of numerous rumors after being featured in a TMZ article in early 2017. After discussing the nature of the couple's relationship in Pusha T's song "The Story of Odeon," Drake confirmed paternity on his 2018 album Scorpion, citing a desire to keep his child private.

studio albums Thank Me Lighter (2010) Take Care (2011) Nothing Was the Same (2013) Fuse (2016) Scorpion (2018) Certified Lover Boy (2021) Honestly, Nevermind (2022)