Bio: The Weeknd (born Abel Tesfaye, in Scarborough, Ontario, on February 16, 1990) is an is a Canadian recording artist and record producer. He says he adopted the stage name, “The Weeknd,” after dropping out of high school and “left one weekend and never came home.” Abel anonymously uploaded several songs to YouTube in 2010 and then in 2011 he released three nine-track mixtapes: “House of Balloons,” “Thursday,” and “Echoes of Silence,” which were critically acclaimed. MTV’s John Norris has called him the “songbird of his generation” and the “best musical talent since Michael Jackson”. In December 2014, he released “Earned It”, the song was released as a single from the 2015 film Fifty Shades of Grey. He has won three Grammy Awards.
Best Known For:
The Weeknd is best known for being a recording artist.
Personal Life:
The Weeknd dated model Bella Hadid from April 2015 to November 2016. He moved on to Selena Gomez in Jan. 2017, with their relationship first confirmed after they were photographed kissing on a date night in Santa Monica. But since they broke up in 2017, he has been spotted on dates with Bella again.
Fans of The Weeknd continued to decode the music video for his song ‘Save Your Tears,’ this time speculating that the singer’s unrecognizable visage was a reference to his former flame Bella Hadid!
The Weeknd was floored that his mega-successful 2020 album and singles received zero Grammy nominations. It is now fueling him to put on the best Super Bowl Halftime show ever.
The Weeknd called on The Grammys to show more ‘transparency’ after not being nominated for a single category. The award show allegedly took issue with his scheduled Super Bowl performance, a report claims.
Bella Hadid may no longer be romantically involved with The Weeknd but she knows ‘how hard he’s worked over the years’ and has her opinions on his next huge gig at the Super Bowl in 2021.
You know when Ariana Grande and The Weeknd are on the same track, nothing is ‘off the table.’ The two reunited on her new album on a song that will leave you speechless.
The Weeknd has been known to push the limits in his music videos, and he’s done it again with ‘Too Late.’ Two women have fun with his decapitated head before attaching it to a stripper’s body for a good time.