All while constantly making more music and playing shows, The Weeknd proudly topped the charts and even had some of his songs make appearances in films such as 2013’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and 2015’s Fifty Shades Of Grey, only to skyrocket his name and following. Beginning the journey of a lifetime, Tesfaye went on to tour and sell out some of the hottest clubs within the first couple years of being, not to mention kicking it up a notch and collaborating with Drake on some of the coolest projects in the industry, and even performing with other talents such as Justin Timberlake and Alicia Keys. Even going on to grasping the attention of Rapper Drake, which then spiraled into getting noticed by the New York Times, ending in nonstop recognition that was already well deserved.Ĭome 2011, The Weeknd released his first ever nine-track mixtape, entitled House Of Balloons, for free through his very own website. Through word of mouth and the internet, The Weeknd was instantaneously becoming a hit, completely blindsiding Tesfaye and his budding career within the music industry. Forever wild and keeping it fresh, Toronto, Canada’s Abel Makkonen Tesfaye has mostly always gone by his professional persona initially taking YouTube by storm, anonymously. Changing everything the world knows about R&B, The Weeknd has been spitting out introspective and indulgent tunes for just about seven years now.

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