Abel Makkonen Tesfaye is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and record producer. He began his recording career in 2010, anonymously uploading several songs to YouTube. In 2012, the Weeknd signed with Republic Records, and re-released the mixtapes in the compilation album Trilogy. His debut studio album, Kiss Land, was released in 2013. He followed it with Beauty Behind the Madness, which was among the best-selling albums of 2015. His third album Starboy was a similar commercial success and included the number-one single of the same name. He won Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 2018 Grammy Awards.
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Abel Makkonen Tesfaye is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and record producer. He began his recording career in 2010, anonymously uploading several songs to YouTube. In 2012, the Weeknd signed with Republic Records, and re-released the mixtapes in the compilation album Trilogy. His debut studio album, Kiss Land, was released in 2013. He followed it with Beauty Behind the Madness, which was among the best-selling albums of 2015. His third album Starboy was a similar commercial success and included the number-one single of the same name, and also won Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 2018 Grammy Awards. He holds several chart records, being the first artist to simultaneously hold the top three positions on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart with \”Can’t Feel My Face\”, \”Earned It\”, and \”The Hills\”. He has won three Grammy Awards, five American Music Awards,. nine Billboard Music Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards. and nine Juno Awards, and has been nominated for an Academy Award. The Weeknd was awarded the Allan Slaight Award by Canada’s Walk of Fame. He was born on February 16, 1990 in Toronto, Ontario, and was raised in Scarborough. His parents were Ethiopian immigrants to Canada in the late 1980s. He has credited his stage name as being inspired by his high school drop-out status, claiming he left one weekend and never came home, though producer Jeremy Rose claims the name was his idea.
He describes his teenage years as the film \”Kids without the AIDS\”. In an interview, he states he began smoking marijuana at age 11, and later moved on to harder drugs. He claims he often shoplifted to supplement his use of ecstasy, oxycodone, Xanax, cocaine, psilocybin, and ketamine. He attended West Hill Collegiate Institute and Birchmount Park Collegiates Institute in Scarborough, from which he did not graduate, leaving altogether in 2007, after which he also moved to the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto. He met Jeremy Rose in 2010. Rose played one of his instrumentals forTesfaye, who freestyle rapped it to the two musician. This led to collaborating on three songs that were ultimately scrapped on an album. The songs were later included in a blog post from Drake, and were subsequently included in various media outlets including Pitchfork, The New York blog, and Pitchfork. In December 2010, he uploaded two songs he had produced under the condition that he would be credited for them: \”What You Need\”, \”Loft Music\”, and “The Morning’s Over”. In January 2011, he released the mixtape House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence, and quickly earned a following and critical recognition from several mainstream publications due to his dark style of R&b. He also released the album After Hours, which featured the number one singles “Heartless” and ‘Blinding Lights’.
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