{"id":9497,"date":"2021-12-02T11:45:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T04:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-weeknd.store\/?p=9497"},"modified":"2022-07-27T15:47:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T08:47:50","slug":"top-5-interesting-things-you-might-not-know-the-weeknd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-weeknd.store\/es\/top-5-interesting-things-you-might-not-know-the-weeknd\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Interesting Things You Might Not Know The Weeknd"},"content":{"rendered":"
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, popularly known as The Weeknd, had to work his way up from the bottom before hitting the top of the rankings with hits like “Starboy,” “Can’t Feel My Face,” and “Blinding Lights.” \u201cIt was tough growing up where I was from,\u201d the self-described \u201cstreet kid\u201d from the Toronto suburb of Scarborough explained to Variety. \u201cI really thought film was gonna be my way out, but I couldn\u2019t really make a movie to feel better, you know? Music was very direct therapy; it was immediate and people liked it. It definitely saved my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Weeknd is currently one of the best-selling artists in the world, with five studio albums, four No. 1 Billboard hits, and three Grammy Awards. Here are ten interesting facts about the Canadian singer that you probably didn’t know.<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0His real name is Abel Tesfaye.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, professionally known as ‘The Weeknd’ is a Canadian singer born February 16, 1990 in Toronto. Tesfaye has said he didn\u2019t like his real name, so he originally called himself The Weekend. After running into copyright issues with a Canadian band of the same name, the R&B singer dropped his third vowel and changed his name to The Weeknd.<\/p>\n
2. The Weeknd dropped out of high school.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The Weeknd dropped out of high school when he was 17, after switching schools several times and persuaded his best buddy, La Mar Taylor, to join him. The two agreed to move into a one-bedroom apartment in Toronto’s Parkdale neighborhood with another friend, Hyghly Alleyne. As he hauled his mattress out of their house, he remembered his mother giving him \u201cthe worst look anyone could ever have.\u201d In 2015, he told The New York Times, “She looked at me like she had failed.” He said to Rolling Stone that he still feels uneasy when \u201ctalking to someone educated,\u201d but that he improved his vocabulary by practicing crossword puzzles.<\/p>\n
In 2010, Drake first introduced the then-unknown vocalist to his fans by releasing two of his fellow Canadian artist’s songs on his October’s Very Own blog. Drake asked The Weeknd to appear on his Take Care track “Crew Love” the same year after the two met in 2011 as The Weeknd was promoting his debut House of Balloons mixtape. Drake said MTV in 2012, “If you want to talk about evolution \u2014 a quick evolution \u2014 that’s definitely somebody who, everywhere I go, they love him,” “We’re definitely a family. It’s definitely a Toronto thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the album’s commercial and critical success, The Weeknd received no Grammy nominations for 2020’s After Hours, which Drake defended on his Instagram. \u201cThe other day I said The Weeknd was a lock for either album or song of the year along with countless other reasonable assumptions and it just never goes that way,\u201d he said in November, adding that the award “may no longer matter.”<\/p>\n
4. The Weeknd Is Multi-Lingual.<\/h3>\n
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The Weeknd, the son of Ethiopian immigrants, grew up in a multicultural community outside of Toronto alongside other East Africans, as well as people from India, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. \u201cEthiopian \u2014 Amharic \u2014 was the first language I learned to form sentences in because my grandma, who raised me with my mom, would not speak English,\u201d he said to Variety. \u201cBecause of television and being in Canada, I learned English too, but I went to French-immersion school, where you\u2019d get in trouble for speaking English, and I couldn\u2019t speak it to my grandma, so it\u2019s almost like English is my third language, even though now it\u2019s my first.\u201d<\/p>\n
5. The Weeknd’s Hair Has a Meaning.<\/h3>\n
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The artist said that artist Jean-Michel Basquiat influenced his hairstyle. He has been growing it out for over four years, and he only shampoos it occasionally.<\/p>\n
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