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Basic Info
Abel Tesfaye known by his stage name The Weeknd born on 16th February 1990 is a Canadian singer. He dropped out of school at 17 and moved to Toronto with his friends and later he worked at American Apparel. Tesfaye anonymously uploaded several songs to YouTube under his name “The Weeknd” in 2010. He was so anonymous at that time that, his colleagues used to play his songs in workplace and they didn’t even know who Weeknd is. Here are some facts about The Weeknd by Dream Machine.
: : He Used To Be Homeless
: : The Meaning of XO Crew
: : Weeknd Gave His Album To Drake
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Abel Tesfaye known by his stage name The Weeknd born on 16th February 1990 is a Canadian singer. He dropped out of school at 17 and moved to Toronto with his friends and later he worked at American Apparel. Tesfaye anonymously uploaded several songs to YouTube under his name “The Weeknd” in 2010. He was so anonymous at that time that, his colleagues used to play his songs in workplace and they didn’t even know who Weeknd is. Here are some facts about The Weeknd by Dream Machine.
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: Early Life
He started
smoking weed first time at the age of 11. The Weeknd was introduced to
marijuana when he was 11 and then started doing harder drugs from that like
MDMA, cocaine, ketamine. He lost his virginity at 16 with an older women in a
college toga party.
He is sober now, but to deal with anxiety he
used to drink heavily before performances to get over his nerves. He thanks his
good team to helping him staying away from drugs.
: : He Used To Be Homeless
After dropping
out for a long period of time he was homeless and mentioned it many times in
his songs. In a verse of his song “Tell Your Friends” Weeknd tells about his
crazy life story that Weeknd and his friend Lamar robbed a guy for Jordans, but they flipped and bought some
drugs and girls.
Weeknd calls
2008-2010 his “Hazy Years”, he was evicted and homeless, he didn’t talk to his
mother for about a year.
: : Story Behind His Stage Name “The Weeknd”
Tesfaye explained the origin of his stage
name in a Reddit Q&A with fans: "I left home when I was about 17
dropped out of high school and convinced Lamar (XO crew member) to do the same
lol. We grabbed our mattresses from our parents threw it in our friends van and
left one weekend and never came back home... I hated my name at the time though
so I tried it as a stage name. It sounded cool. I took out the "e"
because there was already a Canadian band named the weekend."
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: Weeknd’s Trademark Hairstyle
Weeknd’s hair was
grown so long because he couldn’t bother with it. He wanted his hair to grow as
they want until they interface with his site, and said that there is no art
maintaining this hairstyle just a shampoo once in a while. He cut it for his
album Starboy to give a new look to
himself and he kept his hair after cutting it off.
: : The Meaning of XO Crew
Everyone knows
that XO is commonly stands for Kiss and Hug but according to sources like GQ and The TOURCH tells that the
name of his record label/crew is a reference to Ecstasy and Oxycodone
they’ve slogan “XO till we overdose”.
Both used in recreational drug use, he also signs off his social media names
with XO symbols. Even his Tee’s, Vaporizers, Caps, Lighters etc. has XO logo.
You can see many of his products on his official shop site “The Weeknd Shop”.
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: Weeknd Punched a Police Officer
The Weeknd arrested on 10th January 2015 in Las Vegas, he was
involved in a fight and police officers came to his hotel to find him at
4:20am, they started pulling Weeknd into an elevator, where he punched an
officer. He was taken to jail, and later bailed. He was ordered to pay $1000 to a fund for injured police officers.
: : Weeknd Gave His Album To Drake
Drake is been a
major support of The Weeknd, He gave his half
of his album to Drake, he said in an interview that “The light or Drake shined on
me, he was the reason to my successful career”.
Weeknd gave half
of the last album “House of Balloons” (Crew Love, The Ride and Shot for Me) he
had written to Drake and he returned the favor by giving him some fame.
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: The Success Timeline
In 2013 The
Weeknd released his debut album “Kiss Land”, which his fans were eagerly waiting
for, and later Kiss Land debuted to number
2 and reached the top of Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop
albums.
In February 2015,
Weeknd released a song “Earned It” for Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack, which
reached number 3 on charts.
In August 2015,
Weeknd released his second studio album “Beauty Behind The Madness” which
reached at the top, and had two singles “The Hills” and “Can’t Feel My Face”
reached number 1 as well. He got 7
nominations for Grammy in 2016
for his album and he won for Best R&B Performance for “Earned It” and won
Best Urban Contemporary Album.
“Earned It” also
earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song of
the Year. Where Spotify named “Can’t Feel My Face” the official song of the
summer in 2015. Beauty Behind The Madness was the top streamed album
worldwide in 2015.
The Weeknd became
the first artist to claim the Top 3 spots on the Hot R&B Songs chart, with “Earned It”, “The
Hills” and “Can’t Feel My Face”.
Weeknd’s success
story is not over yet, on November 2016 Weeknd released Starboy album. It was
the 3rd biggest album of
2016 at number 1 on the charts. Where Weeknd broke the records for the most Spotify streams in 24 hours by a single artist.
The Weeknd got 8 Billboard
Music Awards in 2016, including Top Hot 100 Artist and Top R&B Artist.
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: Tech News
1. The day before yesterday Google announced YouTube Music and YouTube Premium, where users can stream music without ads for $9.99 per month or can watch it for
free but with ads. YouTube premium for original content is costing around $11.99 per month.
3. Facebook adds voice posts, stories archive and cloud storage features. This update will let
you save photos and videos directly to your account in the Facebook Cloud.
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