Yahoo India Web Search

Search results

    • Degrassi: The Next Generation

      • Drake (born October 24, 1986, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian rap musician who first gained fame as an actor on the acclaimed TV teenage drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation and went on to have a successful and influential music career.
  1. People also ask

  2. May 15, 2020 · How Did Drake Become The World’s Biggest Pop Star? He rarely gives interviews and keeps his private life tightly under wraps — yet Drake has soundtracked our lives for more than a decade and is equal to Madonna in top-10 hits.

  3. May 16, 2020 · How Drake became the world’s biggest pop star. He rarely gives interviews and keeps his private life tightly under wraps—yet Drake has soundtracked our lives for more than a decade and is equal to Madonna in top-10 hits. We consider the secret to the rapper’s unlikely success. By Hattie Collins. 16 May 2020.

  4. An influential figure in popular music, he has been credited with popularizing R&B sensibilities in hip hop artists. Gaining recognition by starring as Jimmy Brooks in the CTV teen drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001–2008), Drake began his recording career in 2006 with the release of his debut mixtape, Room for Improvement (2006).

  5. 1 day ago · Drake’s breakthrough came in 2009 with the release of the mixtape So Far Gone and its hit single “Best I Ever Had.”. A bidding war between labels soon ensued, and Drake ultimately signed with Lil Wayne ’s Young Money Entertainment, a subsidiary of Cash Money. Later that year the label put out So Far Gone as an EP.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  6. Oct 16, 2023 · Drake has one of the most unexpected and impressive careers in the music industry. The now-iconic rapper released his first-ever mixtape in 2006 and left "Degrassi" in 2008. He has won five ...

    • Callie Ahlgrim
  7. Jan 27, 2017 · The 30-year-old Canadian rapper's rise to being one of the music industry's biggest global acts has been a decade in the making: Aubrey Drake Graham emerged at a time when music sales were in...

  8. Jan 19, 2021 · Drake first came to prominence in the teen soap Degrassi: The Next Generation in the role of Jimmy Brooks, a wheelchair-bound character he played for seven years. After leaving the show he became...