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BIRTH
Abel was born on February 16th in 1990, in Canada. He's the only child of Makkonen and Samra Tesfaye. He was raised in Scarborough, a neighbourhood that has a diversity of culture and races. -
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The Weeknd
His real name's Abel Makkonen Tesfaye but he's known as The Weeknd. He was born on February 16th in 1990. He's a singer, music producer and composer. -
FIRST WORKS
He started to be known in 2010, when he uploaded some annonymous songs to Youtube under the name of "The Weeknd". They were called «What You Need», «Loft Music», and «The Morning». -
FIRST ALBUM
On March 21st, in 2011 Abel took out a mixtape, which were nine tracks, for free in his website named "House of Balloons". Later on, it was acclaimed by the criticism that had and was nominated
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FIRST TOUR
In April 2012, The Weeknd began its tour through all the United States performing at the Coachella Festival. In September 2012, The Weeknd signed with the record company Republic Records jointly with its own brand "XO" -
THIRD ALBUM
On May 16th, 2013, The Weeknd premiered the main single titled homonymously as their debut album "Kiss Land", which would be released on September 10. It also promoted the singles "Belong to the World" and "Live For », with Drake; The Fall tour would begin in September. "Kiss Land" received generally positive reviews from critics.50 Debut at number two on the Billboard 200 list in the United States, selling 96,000 copies. -
SECOND ALBUM
The album "Trilogy" was released in November, which was.figured in number 5 on the Canadian Albums Chart and number 4 on the Billboard 200 in the United States, with 86,000 copies sold in its first week . Shortly afterwards in December, the BBC chain announced that The Weeknd had been nominated for the Sound of 2013 survey. In May 2013, «Trilogy» was platinum certified by Recording Industry Association of America and double platinum by Music Canada -
MUSIC COLABORATIONS
On September 30TH, 2014, the song "Love Me Harder" was released, a duet between The Weeknd and Ariana Grande, the song reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 list. On December 23th, 2014, he released "Earned It", which was released as a single from the movie Fifty Shades of Gray, and reached No. 3 on the Hot 100. The Weeknd performed an interpretation of the song with Alicia Keys at the 2015 BET Awards. -
KING OF THE FALL TOUR
On June 26th, 2014, The Weeknd announced what the King of the Fall tour would be like, it would essentially be a mini-tour of the United States in September and October 2014. The announcement came a day after The Weeknd released its new song, "Often," on SoundCloud, leading to speculation that more new material will be revealed on the tour. On July 20th, 2014, The Weeknd released another track titled "King of the Fall" to promote his upcoming tour, which began in September. -
FOURTH ALBUM
On August 28th, 2015, The Weeknd's second studio album, Beauty Behind The Madness, was put on sale in the market and debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 in its first weeks, with an approximate of 412,000 equivalent units sold. (326,000 were pure sales) .69 In addition to becoming his first album number one in the country, his project so far is the second most successful release of 2015. -
HITS
On August 29th, 2015, The Weeknd released "The Hills", it debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 list, becoming the debut of the week; the single has topped the list in the first place. On June 8th, "Can not Feel My Face", was released as a second single, it debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached, later, the number one, by what is his third single in the top 10 and his first hit number one in the United States. On July 4th, The Weeknd topped FVDED in the Park in Surrey, BC, Canada. -
FIFTH ALBUM
He released the main song of the album, which received the platinum certification and was number one in the United States, "I Feel It Coming" was released a week after, along with the tracks "Party Monster" and "False Alarm".Later he presented "Starboy" and "False Alarm.", including "All I Know" with Future, "Sidewalks" with Kendrick Lamar, "Secrets" and «Die for You».
