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.
Kad je Yared bio sedam godina,  otac mu je umro, a majka ga je poslala da živi sa  ujakom, koji je bio svećenik Etiopljanske ortodoksne tradicije, jedne od najstarijih crkvi na svijetu.