Aubrey Graham
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Aubrey Graham | |
Birth name | Aubrey Drake Graham |
Born | October 24, 1986 Toronto, Ontario |
Other name(s) | "Drake" (stage name for music which he uses for rapping) |
Official site | www.myspace.com/thisisdrake |
Notable roles | Jimmy Brooks on Degrassi:The Next Generation |
Aubrey Drake Graham (born October 24, 1986) is a Canadian actor. He is known for playing Jimmy Brooks, the physically disabled character on Degrassi: The Next Generation.
Graham was born in Toronto, Ontario to an African Canadian father and a Jewish Canadian mother.[1] He is also an aspiring rapper. His mixtape Room for Improvement was released on February 14, 2006. It can be purchased at his website. He also dated Andrea Lewis in the 1st Season.
This year (2006), Aubrey Graham did a show with Sokrates at the Art Vocal in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. They played 6 songs and danced with the crowd. During the show, both Sokrates and Aubrey plugged their albums. Graham, musically, is influenced by the works of The Roots, DJ Logic, and Disco Biscuits
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Jones, Jen (12/06). "School's In for Degrassi". JV!be. ISSN. Retrieved on 2006-12-15.
[edit] External links
- Aubrey Graham at the Internet Movie Database
- Graham interview (August 13, 2005)
- Aubrey-graham.net (fansite)