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Abel Makkonen Tesfayenació on February 16, 1990, in Scarborough, Ontario, now district of Toronto, is the only son of Makkonen and Samra Tesfaye, a couple of Ethiopian emigrants who came to Canada in the 80s. He was raised in Scarborough, a neighborhood full of diverse cultures within the city During his youth, his mother worked in various jobs to provide for the family's livelihood, often as a nurse and a caterin, while attending night school. Later he left the family, which led his maternal grandmother to take care of him while he was young. This allowed him to speak fluidly the Amharic, taking Semitic as his mother tongue. He also took him to his "services" in an Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

He started smoking marijuana at the age of  11, and later went on to consume stronger drugs.13 Describing his adolescence as "a story similar to that of KIDS, but without AIDS", he stole the local supermarket with his friend from school He began to use MDMA, Xanax, cocaine, psilocybin, and ketamine. He attended the West Hill Collegiate Institute and Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute, but did not graduate from any of these. His stage name was inspired by his school desertion, adopting the name "The Weeknd" after he and a friend "left school for a weekend and never came back", although producer Jeremy Rose says that the name was his idea. The spelling was modified to avoid patent problems with the Canadian band "The Weekend"

He began to gain recognition at the end of 2010, when he anonymously uploaded several songs to YouTube under the name "The Weeknd". He released three mixtapes of nine tracks throughout 2011: "House of Balloons", "Thursday" and "Echoes of Silence", which were very acclaimed.The following year, he released his compilation album entitled "Trilogy" with thirty tracks that They consist of remastered versions of their mixtapes and three additional songs. It was released to the market by the musical label Republic Records and XO.

In 2013, he released his debut studio album entitled «Kiss Land», which was supported by the singles «Kiss Land» and «Live For». Their second album, "Beauty Behind The Madness", which became their first album to reach number one on the Billboard 200 chart, included the single that managed to enter the "top three" on various "Earned It" charts and produced the singles number one «The Hills» and «Can not Feel My Face». The songs have simultaneously reached the top three places on the Billboard Hot R & B Songs list, becoming the only artist of 2015 to do so.The Weeknd has won two Grammy Awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award, and nine Juno Awards In September 2016, it was announced the release of the third album in collaboration with Daft Punk, «Starboy», along with his first homonymously titled single, which subsequently reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100.