Drake was born on 24 October 1986 in Toronto.

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Drake was educated at Forest Hill Collegiate Institute, Vaughan Road Academy.

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Drake

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Canadian-American rapper, singer-songwriter, and actor (born 1986)

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Aubrey Drake Graham (born October 24, 1986) is a Canadian rapper, singer and actor. He is credited with popularizing R&B sensibilities in hip-hop music through rap-singing. Drake first gained recognition as Jimmy Brooks in the CTV teen drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001–2008) and began his music career by independently releasing the mixtapes Room for Improvement (2006), Comeback Season (2007), and So Far Gone (2009), before signing with Young Money Entertainment.

Quick facts

Born: 24 October 1986 wd
Place of birth: Toronto wd
Citizenship: Canada, United States wd
Occupation: rapper, singer, songwriter, entrepreneur, actor, musician wd
Education: Forest Hill Collegiate Institute, Vaughan Road Academy wd
Official website: drakerelated.com wd
Social media: X (Twitter) · Facebook · Instagram · YouTube wd

Awards wd

Grammy Award for Best Rap Album (2013)
Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance (2017)
Canada's Walk of Fame (2011)
Grammy Award for Best Rap Song (2017)
American Music Award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist (2016)
American Music Award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album (2016)
American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Song (2016)
American Music Award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Song (2016)
Brit Award for International Male Solo Artist (2017)
Echo Pop Award for the Hit of the Year (2017)

About

Drake's debut album, Thank Me Later (2010), debuted atop the Billboard 200 and included his breakthrough hit "Best I Ever Had". He followed it with the albums Take Care (2011) and Nothing Was the Same (2013); the former was included on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list. His fourth studio album, Views (2016), led the Billboard 200 for 13 weeks. Its second single, "One Dance", became the first song to surpass 1 billion streams on Spotify. In 2018, Drake released his fifth studio album, Scorpion, spending 29 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 with its singles: "God's Plan", "Nice for What", and "In My Feelings". Throughout the 2020s, Drake amassed six US number-one albums, including Certified Lover Boy (2021) and Iceman (2026), which respectively spawned nine and ten US top ten songs. In 2026, he became the first artist to occupy the top three spots on the Billboard 200.

As an entrepreneur, Drake founded the record label OVO Sound, production company DreamCrew, and the fragrance house Better World. In 2013, he became the "global ambassador" of the Toronto Raptors, joining their executive committee and later obtaining naming rights to their practice facility OVO Athletic Centre. In 2016, he began collaborating with Brent Hocking on the bourbon whiskey Virginia Black. Drake is a co-owner of the gaming organization 100 Thieves, and heads the OVO fashion label and the Nocta…

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When was Drake born?: Drake was born on 24 October 1986 in Toronto.
Where did Drake study?: Drake was educated at Forest Hill Collegiate Institute, Vaughan Road Academy.

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