The Weeknd is the stage name of Canadian singer-songwriter-record producer Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (born February 16, 1990).
His songs often draw inspiration from personal experiences and explore themes of escape, romanticism, and melancholy. He is well-known for his dark lyricism and musical variation. He has been nominated for an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, and he has won four Grammy Awards, one Latin Grammy Award, 20 Billboard Music Awards, 17 Juno Awards, six American Music Awards, and two MTV Video Music Awards.
Tesfaye, a Toronto native who was raised there, launched his career in 2009 by covertly uploading music to YouTube.
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He co-founded the XO record label two years later and released the mixtapes House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence, which received acclaim for his style of modern and alternative R&B and the mystery surrounding his identity.
He joined Republic Records in 2012 and reissued the mixtapes in the compilation CD Trilogy. In his debut studio album Kiss Land (2013), which debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, he explored dark wave.
Tesfaye began contributing to film soundtracks shortly after its release, with his acclaimed tune “Earned It” from Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) earning the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance and being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
