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.
일곱 살 때 아버지가 돌아가시자 어머니는 야레드를  삼촌과 함께 살게 했습니다. 야레드의 삼촌은 세계에서 가장 오래된 에티오피아 정통 교회의 성직자였습니다.