Song:One Dance
Album:Views
Aubrey Drake Graham is one of today's most successful recording artists especially here in Toronto because he's from Toronto. The 2016 single One Dance was his first number one hit in the US. He was born Oct. 24, 1986 in Toronto. His father Dennis Graham is from Memphis. He played drums with Jerry Lee Lewis. Legendary Sly and the Family Stone bassist Larry Graham and Al Green guitarist Teenie Hodges are his uncles. Drake's mother is Jewish so he attended Jewish day school and had a Bar Mitzvah. He lived with his mom after his parents divorced and his dad moved back to Memphis. While in high school at Forest Hill Collegiate, he was a regular on the TV series Degrassi: The Next Generation from 2001-08. His mom was sick so he was the main source of income. He then started releasing mixtapes in 2006. Drake's main influence was Jay-Z. His three mixtapes started a label bidding war. Drake signed with Young Money and injured his knee while on tour. That delayed his debut album Thank Me Later until 2010. The album did well. It was certified Platinum and the single Best I Ever Had reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Drake continued to have success especially at home in Canada. But One Dance from the 2016 album Views was his first number one hit in the US. By this time he was working with producers Paul "Nineteen85" Jefferies and Noah "40" Shebib who is the son of film director Donald Shebib. One Dance is based on British singer Kyla Smith's 2008 single Do You Mind. This was a hit in England. Drake asked her if he could sample the song and she agreed if she could appear on the record. He also brought in Nigerian rapper Ayodeji "Wizkid" Balogun to mix his Afrobeat sound with the Jamaican dance hall sound of One Dance. There was no music video at first but one was produced in 2017. Kyla and Wizkid do not appear in the video. Since then Drake has topped the Billboard Hot 100 several times including his latest single Toosle Slide from his upcoming album. Here's the video for One Dance by Drake.
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