Tupac Amaru Shakur was born on June 16, 1971, in East Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. His mother was Afeni Shakur, and his biological father was Billy Garland. He was originally named Lesane Parish Crooks but was renamed Tupac Amaru Shakur at the age of one, after the 18th-century Peruvian revolutionary leader Túpac Amaru II.
