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The following year, he met Jeremy Rose, a producer who had an idea for a dark contemporary R&B musical project. In August 2009, Tesfaye began anonymously releasing music to YouTube.

Main articles: House of Balloons, Thursday (album), and Echoes of Silence In 2007, he dropped out of school and moved to Parkdale, Toronto. He attended West Hill Collegiate Institute and Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute. He said that he often shoplifted to supplement his drug use. Tesfaye has described his teenage years as being like the film " Kids without the AIDS." He stated he began smoking marijuana at age eleven, and later used ecstasy, oxycodone, Xanax, cocaine, psilocybin, and ketamine. He wasn't abusive, he wasn't an alcoholic, he wasn't an asshole.

I don't even know where he lived - I'd see him for, like, a night. He said of his father, "I saw him vaguely when I was six, and then again when I was 11 or 12, and he had a new family and kids. He attended services at the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. While living with his grandmother, he learned Amharic, which he also spoke with his mother. He is an only child, and was raised by his grandmother and mother in the district of Scarborough after his parents separated.

2.5 2021: Super Bowl LV halftime show and new musicĪbel Makkonen Tesfaye was born on February 16, 1990, in Toronto, Ontario, to Ethiopian immigrants Samrawit Hailu and Makkonen Tesfaye.

2.4 2018–2020: My Dear Melancholy, and After Hours.

2.3 2015–2017: Beauty Behind the Madness and Starboy.

In 2020, Tesfaye was listed by Time as one of the world's most influential people. In 2020, Tesfaye released his fourth studio album, After Hours, which featured the worldwide chart record-setting single " Blinding Lights", and the number-one singles " Heartless" and " Save Your Tears".Īmong the world's best selling music artists with over 75 million records sold, Tesfaye has won three Grammy Awards, five American Music Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, fifteen Juno Awards, one Brit Award, has been nominated for an Academy Award, and holds several Billboard chart records. Tesfaye's third studio album, Starboy (2016), achieved similar commercial success, and included the number-one single of the same name. Tesfaye gained major critical and commercial success with his second studio album, Beauty Behind the Madness (2015), which reached atop the US Billboard 200 and produced the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles " Can't Feel My Face" and " The Hills".

īeginning his musical career in 2009 by anonymously releasing music to YouTube, Tesfaye founded the XO record label in 2011, and released the critically acclaimed mixtapes House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence that year he subsequently signed with Republic Records, and released his debut studio album, Kiss Land, in 2013. Noted for his distinctive singing voice with a soaring falsetto and its singular tremolo, Tesfaye is considered an influential figure in contemporary popular music. Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (born February 16, 1990), known professionally as the Weeknd, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and record producer.