The weeknd go tell your friends about it

Describing his teenage years as ' KIDS without the AIDS', he would shoplift from the local supermarket with his high school friend, and began using MDMA, Xanax, cocaine, psilocybin and ketamine. He started smoking marijuana at age 11, and later moved on to hard drugs. She would also take him to services at an Ethiopian Orthodox church.Abel and his grand mother would listen to Ethiopian music which further influenced his mysterious and sexy type of music he puts out. This allowed him to become fluent in Amharic, with the Semitic language acting as his first language. His father later abandoned the family, prompting his maternal grandmother to take care for him. During his youth, his mother would work several jobs to support the family, often as a nurse and caterer, while also attending night school. He was raised in a multicultural neighbourhood in Scarborough. He is the only child of Makkonen and Samra Tesfaye, who were Ethiopian migrants to Canada in the 1980's.

2.1 2010вЂ“2011: Career beginnings and mixtapesДЄbel Makkonen Tesfaye was born on 16 February 1990, in Scarborough, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto.

His second album, Beauty Behind the Madness, which became his first number one album on the Billboard 200, included the top-five single ' Earned It' and produced the number-one singles ' The Hills' and ' Can't Feel My Face.' The songs have simultaneously held the top three spots on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart, making him the first artist in history to achieve this. In 2013, he released his debut studio album Kiss Land, which was supported by the singles ' Kiss Land' and ' Live For'. It was released under Republic Records and his own label XO. The following year, he released a compilation album Trilogy, thirty tracks consisting of remastered versions of the mixtape material and three additional songs. In late 2010, Tesfaye anonymously uploaded several songs to YouTube under the name 'The Weeknd.' He released three nine-track mixtapes throughout 2011: House of Balloons, Thursday and Echoes of Silence, which were critically acclaimed. Kanye West, Ariana Grande, Drake, Travis Scott Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (born 16 February 1990), known professionally by his stage name The Weeknd is a Canadian singer, songwriter and record producer.

The weeknd go tell your friends about it