On June 8, 1977, Kanye West was born in Atlanta, Georgia. When his parents split up when he was three years old, his mother moved the two of them to Chicago, Illinois. After growing up in Chicago and attending Polaris School for Individual Education in Oak Lawn, Illinois, West was raised in a middle-class household.
Kanye West top movies and TV shows
Kanye West’s favourite Movies, From ’12 Years a Slave’ to ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ . He also loves “Akira” and “There Will Be Blood.
Kanye West awards and nominations
Kanye has a long list of awards and nominations under his belt.
Alongside more than 160 million albums sold worldwide, Kanye West is one of the best-selling musicians ever.
He has garnered 22 Grammy Awards and 75 nominations, which ranks him with Jay-Z for the joint-tenth-most Grammy Awards ever.
His other honours include the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, the Billboard Artist Achievement Award, and a joint-record three Brit Awards for Best International Male Solo Artist. Six of West’s albums were listed among the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by Rolling Stone in 2020, and the magazine also named him one of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time.
When West was ten years old, his mother and relocated to Nanjing, China, where she worked as a Fulbright Scholar and taught at Nanjing University. According to his mother, West was the only foreign student in his class, but he fit in well and picked up the language fast, though he has since lost much of it.
