When Yared was seven years old his father died, and his mother sent him to go live with an uncle, who was a priest of the Ethiopian Orthodox tradition, one of the oldest churches in the world.
När Yared var sju år, dog hans far, och hans mor skickade iväg honom för att bo med en farbror som var präst inom den etiopiska ortodoxa traditionen, en av världens äldsta kyrkor.