Check out photos of The Weeknd performing onstage, walking red carpets and more.
The Weeknd (born Abel Tesfaye, in Scarborough, Ontario, on February 16, 1990) is a Canadian recording artist and record producer. He says he adopted the stage name, ‘The Weeknd,’ after dropping out of high school and ‘left one weekend and never came home.’ Abel anonymously uploaded several songs to YouTube in 2010 and then in 2011 he released three nine-track mixtapes: ‘House of Balloons,’ ‘Thursday,’ and ‘Echoes of Silence,’ which were critically acclaimed. MTV’s John Norris has called him the ‘songbird of his generation’ and the ‘best musical talent since Michael Jackson’. In December 2014, he released ‘Earned It’, the song was released as a single from the 2015 film ‘Fifty Shades of Grey.’ He has won various Grammy Awards over the years, as well.
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The Weeknd & Lily Rose-Depp at Cannes Film Festival
The Weeknd at ‘The Idol’ premiere at Cannes
The Weeknd & Simi Khadra during an outing
The Weeknd & Simi Khadra walk outside
The Weeknd at the ‘Uncut Gems’ Premiere
The Weeknd attends TIFF’s premiere of ‘Uncut Gems’
The Weeknd at the 51st Festival d’ete de Quebec
The Weeknd at the NRJ Awards in Cannes, France
The Weeknd Attends iHeartRadio’s Festival
The Weeknd at the iHeartRadio Music Festival
The Weeknd Attends ‘Harper’s Bazaar’ ICONS party
The Weeknd Attends the 2017 Met Gala
The Weeknd Takes On Coachella
The Weeknd at 51st Festival d’ete de Quebec
The Weeknd at the Wireless Festival in London
The Weeknd In Concert In Miami
The Weeknd In Concert In LA
The Weeknd At Coachella 2022
