Drake
Canadian Aubrey Drake Graham (born October24, 1986) was born to a mixed-race couple and raised Jewish. He came to fame playing wheelchair-bound Jimmy Brooks in seven seasons of the popular teen soap,
degrassi: The Next Generation. in 2006, Drake began circulating mixtapes of his raps, and signed a record deal in 2009. Hit song include "Every Girl," "Best I Ever Had," and "Money To Blow."
His father, Dennis Graham, was a drummer legendary rock star Jerry Lee Lewis, and drake says that his mother, Sandi Graham, also hails from a "very musical" family. Drake comes from an eclectic and unique racial and relgious background. His father is an African-American Catholic and his mother is a white Canadian Jew. Speaking about his personal identity, drake says, "At the end of the day, I consider myself a black man because im more immersed in black culture than any other day. Being Jewish is kind of a cool twist. It makes me unique."
Drake's parents divorced when he was 5 years old, and he was raised by his mother in Forest Hill, an affluent and predominantly Jewish Toronto neighborhood. He had a Bar Mitzvah at age 13 and observed the Jewish High Holy Days with his mother. "My mom has always made hanukkah fun," Drake recalls. "When i was younger, she gave cool gifts and she'd make latkes." despite his Jewish upbringing, Drake says he felt isolated at Forest Hill Collegiate Institute, his virtually all-white high school. Drake remembers, "Nobody understood what it was like to be black and Jewish." However, he also adds, "being diffrent from everyone else just made me a lot stronger."
Now one of the alums that Drake came out with is "Thank Me Later" the reason i love that album is because he speaks the truth on every track, the two songs i love best on the album is, "Thank Me Now," and 'Find Your Love."
