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.
Amikor Yared hétéves lett, meghalt az apja, és az anyja egy nagybátyjához küldte, aki az Etióp Ortodox Egyház, a világ egyik legősibb egyházának papja volt.