Who is The Weeknd?
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (Amharic: አቤል መኮንን ተስፋዬ; born February 16, 1990), known professionally as the Weeknd, is a Canadian singer-songwriter. He is known for his unconventional music production, artistic reinventions, and signature use of the falsetto register. Tesfaye began releasing music anonymously in 2009. After co-founding the record label XO, he released three mixtapes in 2011, House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence. The mixtapes gained recognition for its style of contemporary and alternative R&B, alongside the mystery surrounding his identity. He signed with Republic Records in 2012, reissuing the mixtapes as a compilation album titled Trilogy, and released his debut studio album, Kiss Land, in 2013. After a string of collaborations in 2014, Tesfaye began to transition from alternative R&B in favor of a pop sound with his second and third studio albums, Beauty Behind the Madness (2015) and Starboy (2016), which both reached the top of the US Bi...