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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 Magazine as one of the world's most influential people. He holds several Billboard chart records which include being the first artist to simultaneously hold the top three spots on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with "Can't Feel My Face", "Earned It", and "The Hills", and for having the longest-charting song of all time with "Blinding Lights". His single "Blinding Lights" was the most streamed song on Spotify in 2020. Īmong the world's best-selling musical artists with over 75 million records sold, Tesfaye is also one of the most-streamed artists on Spotify.

His fourth studio album After Hours (2020) featured the worldwide chart record-setting single " Blinding Lights", and the number-one singles " Heartless" and " Save Your Tears". Starboy also won the Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album. Tesfaye's third studio album Starboy (2016) was a similar commercial success and included the number-one single of the same name. With the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles " Can't Feel My Face" and " The Hills", Beauty Behind the Madness won the Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album and was nominated for Album of the Year. It topped the US Billboard 200 and was among the best-selling albums of that year.

Tesfaye gained major critical and commercial success with his second studio album Beauty Behind the Madness (2015). His critically acclaimed single " Earned It", from the soundtrack to the film Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance and was nominated for Best Original Song at the 88th Academy Awards. His debut studio album Kiss Land was released in 2013. In 2012, Tesfaye signed with Republic Records and re-released the mixtapes in the compilation album Trilogy. He quickly earned a following and recognition from several mainstream publications due to his dark style of contemporary R&B and the mystique surrounding his identity.

Two years later, he co-founded the XO record label and released the critically acclaimed mixtapes House of Balloons, Thursday and Echoes of Silence. īorn and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Tesfaye began his recording career in 2009 by anonymously releasing music on YouTube.

He has received numerous accolades throughout his career, including three Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards, nineteen Billboard Music Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, fifteen Juno Awards, and an Academy Award nomination. 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.