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Kanye West 10 Personal Facts, Biography, Wiki
American rapper
Born: June 8, 1977 (age 44 years), Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Height: 1.73 m
Spouse: Kim Kardashian (m. 2014)
Celebrated Name Kanye West
Age 44 Years
Nick Name Ye
Birth Name Kanye Omari West
Birth Date 1977-06-08
Gender Male
Profession Singer
Birth Nation USA
Place Of Birth Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Nationality American
Ethnicity African-American
Horoscope Gemini
Father Ray West
Mother Donda C. West
High School Polaris High School
College / University Chicago’s American Academy of Art
Height 1.73 m
Weight 75 Kg
Hair Color Black
Eye Color Dark Brown
Marital Status Married
Spouse Kim Kardashian
Married Date 24th May 2014
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West began an on-and-off relationship with designer Alexis Phifer in 2002, and they became engaged in August 2006.
The pair ended their 18-month engagement in 2008.
West subsequently dated model Amber Rose from 2008 until the summer of 2010.
In April 2012, West began dating his longtime friend, reality star Kim Kardashian.
West and Kardashian became engaged in October 2013, and married at Fort di Belvedere in Florence on May 24, 2014.
Their private ceremony was subject to widespread mainstream coverage, with which West took issue.
They have four children: North “Nori” West (born June 2013), Saint West (born December 2015), Chicago West (born via surrogate in January 2018), and Psalm West (born via surrogate in May 2019).
In April 2015, West and Kardashian (who is of Armenian descent) traveled to Jerusalem to have North baptized in the Armenian Apostolic Church at the Cathedral of St. James.
Their other children were all baptized at Etchmiadzin Cathedral, the mother church of the Armenian Church, on October 7, 2019.
The couple’s high-profile status and respective careers have resulted in their relationship becoming subject to heavy media coverage; The New York Times referred to their marriage as “a historic blizzard of celebrity”.
In September 2018, West announced that he would be permanently moving back to Chicago to establish his Yeezy company headquarters there.
This did not actually occur and West instead went on to purchase two ranches near Cody, Wyoming, where he recorded his eighth solo studio album, Ye.
Kardashian resides with their children in a home that the now separated couple owns in California.
In July 2020, during a presidential campaign rally of his, West revealed that he had previously wanted his first child aborted, but Kardashian refused.
He made the comment and acknowledged the possibility of Kardashian ending their marriage because of it.
Later that month, West wrote on Twitter that he had been attempting to divorce Kardashian.
He also wrote that the Kardashian family was attempting “to lock [him] up”.
In January 2021, CNN reported that the couple were discussing divorce, and on February 19, 2021, Kardashian officially filed for divorce.
In April 2021, both he and Kardashian cited “irreconcilable differences” as the cause of divorce and agreed to joint custody of their four children.
They also agreed that they do not need spousal support.
In November 2007, West’s mother Donda West died of a heart disease right after she underwent a plastic surgery procedure.
She was 58 years old at the time. This left West in turmoil, as he was extremely close to his mother; she had released her memoir before her death called ‘Raising Kanye: Life Lessons from the Mother of a Hip-Hop Superstar’.
Kanye West was in on-and-off relationship relationship with designer Alexis Phifer for four years before getting engaged to her in August 2006. The engagement lasted 18 month before the pair called it quits in 2008.
He was in a relationship with model Amber Rose from 2008 to 2010.
In April 2012, West began dating Kim Kardashian. They got engaged in October 2013 and married on May 24, 2014, at Fort di Belvedere in Florence, Italy.
West and Kim Kardashian have three children: daughters North West (born June 2013) and Chicago West (born January 2018 of a surrogate pregnancy) and son Saint West (born December 2015).
In January 2019, Kim Kardashian announced that they are expecting their fouth child, a son, via surrogate.
When West dropped out of the college in 1996, his mother became very upset with him but later on with his success as a musician she confessed that not everybody has to go through formal education to prove themselves.
After a near death experience in 2002, West recorded his first solo ‘Through the Wire’ at the studio with his jaw still wired shut.
In 2004, when West lost the category of the Best New Artist to Gretchen Wilson at the American Music Awards, he claimed that he will never come to the music awards ever again. But later on he apologized for his attitude.
West is one of the rare entertainers to make it to the cover of the Time Magazine. He was named as one of the 100 most influential people of the year 2005 in the magazine.
West co-hosted the ‘Concert for Hurricane Relief’ televised show and he strayed from his script and announced out of blue that ‘George Bush doesn’t care for black people’.
These seven words became the national headline and George Bush called it the most disgraceful moment in his Presidency.
In 2009, at MTV VMAs, while Taylor Swift gave her acceptance speech for the Best Female Video Award, Kanye West jumped in between and said that ‘Beyonce’s Single Ladies is the best video of all times’.
This act of West was highly criticized and artists like Kelly Clarkson, even President Obama criticized his antics. Later, west made a personal phone call to Taylor and apologized.
Started out as a producer for hip-hop artists including Jermaine Dupri, Jay-Z and Ludacris
After fracturing his jaw in a car crash, he wrote “Through the Wire,” which got him a record deal
Walked out of the American Music Awards in 2004 after losing the Best New Artist award to country performer Gretchen Wilson
He later apologized to her for his actions
Took some heat for publicly criticizing President George W
Bush during a 2005 NBC Hurricane Katrina benefit concert
Was widely denounced when he interrupted Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards in September 2009
Made his directorial debut in 2010 with the musical short film Runaway, which is based on the song of the same name from his My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album