- Was mentored by film composer Christopher Young.
- Personally selected by Academy Award-nominated director Guillermo del Toro to provide the music for the Animated Hellboy movies and video games.
- In the nineties, he was at one branch of the Warner Bros. Store, with his mother and son, where he got to meet Kevin Conroy, the voice of Batman from Kevin Conroy (and its spin-offs). His mother told Conroy, that her son was a composer and that one day they would end up working together. Kevin Conroy was very friendly and told him to follow his dreams so that it could happen. Drake would end up being one of the composers for Batman: Gotham Knight (2008), which featured Conroy in his iconic role, and they would end up working together on various projects after that.
- He tried to get work on Kevin Smith's Clerks (2000), but wasn't able to. Smith, who would become a fan of Drake's for his work on the various DC Animated Universe films he would end up scoring (like Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (2012), Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013) & Wonder Woman (2009)), ended up hiring him to score Tusk (2014) & Yoga Hosers (2016).
- Is a big fan of the classic Universal Studios Horror films, and has said that he has busts and figures of the iconic characters.
- Is a huge fan of Jerry Goldsmith and John Carpenter.
- Born in Chicago, IL.
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