Total 11, days old now. His real name is Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, he was born in in Toronto, and his parents are of Ethiopian origin. His childhood was quite difficult, and he hasn't even managed to finish high school. In the late s, the young man got interested in social media and started uploading his mixtapes to various channels. His career started in with the release of his first EP House of Balloons. Two years later, one song from his first solo album "Kiss Land" raised to Billboard Top The singer has got 3 Grammy awards.
The son of Ethiopian immigrants, The Weeknd grew up outside Toronto in a multicultural neighborhood filled with fellow East Africans, as well as people from India, the Middle East and the Caribbean. Nearly three decades later, the men were introduced over text, and The Weeknd invited Carrey to his Los Angeles condo to hear some new music in As it turned out, not only did they discover that they lived in the same neighborhood — and even got out telescopes to wave to each other — but Carrey also knew the exact theater his mother took him to see The Mask.
Jim Carrey was my first inspiration to be any kind of performer, and I went to breakfast with him on my first day of being The Weeknd says his trademark dreadlock hairstyle — which was inspired by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat — caused him to sometimes wake up with neck pain.
He eventually lopped his hair off in , debuting his new short-haired look on the album artwork for Starboy. Before he made it big, The Weeknd worked folding shirts at an American Apparel retail store in downtown Toronto around He began making music with the intent of selling it to other musicians around the same time, and his co-workers would listen to his tracks while they worked without even realizing it was him singing them.
After switching schools several times, The Weeknd eventually dropped out of high school when he was 17, also persuading his best friend, La Mar Taylor, to join him.
But around that age, you usually get one second chance after a slap on the wrist. Never shy about displaying his vocal talents, the Weeknd started recording his efforts while in high school.
After dropping out, he continued exploring his interest in music, and released a free download called House of Balloons in This, along with two more mixtapes, helped push his career forward. Despite his growing popularity, he managed to hide himself from the public at large.
The Weeknd refused interviews for a long time and chose to use images of women for his album, Kiss Land , rather than pictures of himself. Some of the mystique he built around himself was intentional, but it also reflected the shyness and insecurities that troubled him early in his career. In addition to his own work, the Weeknd collaborated with other artists. In , the Weeknd continued his rise to the top with the No.
In late November , the Weeknd released his third album, Starboy.
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