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2009–2011: Career beginnings. In August 2009, Tesfaye began anonymously releasing music on YouTube. [24][25] The following year, he met the producer Jeremy Rose at a party. Rose asked Tesfaye if he wanted to work together as a dark R&B project after hearing him freestyle over an instrumental.
During his childhood, he attended two schools, West Hill Collegiate Institute and Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute. However, he got kicked out of one and dropped out of the other after six months.
Jul 29, 2015 · In 2010, The Weeknd mysteriously posted three songs on YouTube: "Loft Music," "What You Need" and "The Morning." His songs went viral but kept his identity unknown because he was camera-shy. He...
- He Sang “The Party & The After Party” at A Party
- He Showed Off His Vocal Chops at Yonge-Dundas Square
- He Was Discovered at The University of Toronto
- He Sang “Happy Birthday” on The TTC
- He Was Catching Shows at NXNE
- He Was Freestyling Over Bedroom Beats
Sometime in 2009—more than a year before he emerged on the scene with the House of Balloons mixtape proper—Abel was recorded singing an early version of mixtape cut “The Party & the After Party” for a bunch of friends at a random house party. The glasses and the hoodie pulled up suggest he was already intent on concealing himself as he turned into ...
It’s hard to imagine catching him singing live for free in the middle of downtown Toronto today, but in the early 2010s, before he’d become a bona fide star, Abel could be found showing off for his friends at Yonge-Dundas Square, obviously poised to blow up. In this extremely brief clip that later showed up on YouTube, you can hear Abel doing an ac...
One of Abel’s earliest shows as The Weeknd was back in 2010 at a concert hosted by the Black Student Association at the University of Toronto. (There’s an extremely blurry video of the performance on YouTube—he plays an early version of “What You Need” to a crowd that is decidedly not into it.) It’s been heavily rumoured that OVO co-founder and lon...
One of the strangest and most random-seeming videos of a young, pre-fame Abel Tesfaye to have surfaced online over the years is this one, of The Weeknd riding a bus and singing “Happy Birthday” to an unnamed friend recording him on his phone. Abel’s almost unrecognizable in a flannel shirt and with his hair cropped military-style, but you’d never m...
One of the most unexpected early Weeknd cameos has got to be this video of Abel rocking out to Montreal’s legendary noise-rock band AIDS Wolf at their unofficial BBQ rooftop party show at the North By North East music festival in Toronto in 2011. Pre-fame, pre-House of Balloons, and pre-Weeknd, it’s proof that Abel was out there soaking up loads of...
In another early clip found on YouTube, Abel can be seen freestyling over a beat as he tries to catch a flow. Although this never became an official song for The Weeknd, it’s a rare glimpse of a young-looking, beardless Abel still finding his voice as he works out his budding aesthetic. It’s safe to say he’s blossomed gracefully since then.
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (born 16 February 1990), known professionally by his stage name The Weeknd is a Canadian singer, songwriter and record producer. In late 2010, Tesfaye anonymously uploaded several songs to YouTube under the name "The Weeknd."
Jan 5, 2021 · Official music video by The Weeknd performing "Save Your Tears"– 'After Hours' available everywhere now: http://theweeknd.co/afterhoursYD Subscribe to The W...
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