Aubrey Drake Graham was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Dennis Graham, a drummer who worked with Jerry Lee Lewis; he is the nephew of musicians Larry Graham and Teenie Hodges.[5][6] Graham's father is an African American from Memphis, Tennessee, while Graham's mother, an educator, is a white Jewish Canadian.[7][8][9][10] His parents divorced when he was five, and he was raised by his mother in Toronto's wealthy Forest Hill neighbourhood,[11] attending elementary school at Forest Hill Public School, and high school at Forest Hill Collegiate Institute, where he began acting,[8] but did not graduate.[12] He also spent many summers with his father in Memphis, Tennessee.