Goodbye to the weekend! The Canadian artist resumes his birth name, Abel Tesfaye, on social networks

Canadian pop star The weekend has returned to his birth name, Abel Tesfaye, on their social media accounts.

The singer, known for his catchy pop songs like Blinding lights, had asked her fans on Twitter in April if she should make the switch. “ABEL formally known as The Weeknd?” he asked his followers in a tweet that received more than 100,000 likes.

The name change comes after the award-winning artist announced W magazine That wanted to “kill The Weeknd”. In this sense, he said, “I am now going through a purifying path. It comes to a place and time where I’m getting ready to close the chapter on The Weeknd”.

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The artist had previously shared that his name came up after he left school and took his mattress to “go away for the weekend and never come home,” the artist reported. Daily mail. But he told W magazine: “As The Weeknd, I’ve said all I can say.” He added that his next album would probably be his “last hurrah” under that name.

Born in Toronto to Ethiopian immigrantsTesfaye became famous after uploading his first songs on YouTube in 2010shows one dark and explicit side of R&B who delved into the consumption of drugs, casual sex and alienation.

Canadian rapper Drake later posted those early demos on his personal blog, making Tesfaye a mix tape of nine numbers, House of balloonswhich he released as a free download.

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During his music career won four Grammy Awardsachieved more than 45 platinum singles and albums and broke many music records. In March 2023, Guinness World Records named him the most popular artist in the world. because of the number of monthly listeners it had Spotify. In March 2023, the 33-year-old artist 111.4 million monthly listeners on Spotify and was the first artist to reach 100 million monthly listeners on the streaming app.

“The Weeknd currently has almost 30 million more monthly listeners than Miley Cyrus (82.4 million)”, writes the management of the platform in a press release.