Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (33) will henceforth call himself just that.
The Canadian superstar has been known as The Weeknd since 2010, but recently he has hinted that the stage name is on the way out.
And as said, so done.
On Monday, he changed his name to Abel Tesfaye on both Instagram and Twitter (although the account names themselves have not yet been updated with the new name).
– I have reached a point and a phase where I am ready to close The Weeknd chapter, the artist stated to W Magazine last week.
Last month he tweeted:
«ABEL formally (sicsicSic is Latin and means “this is how it actually says”) known as The Weeknd?»:
The artist also said in the W interview that he wants to “be reborn” in a way – and that the album he is working on now will probably be his last splash as The Weeknd.
– This is something I have to do. I’ve said everything I have to say as The Weeknd.
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The 33-year-old has also experimented with artist names in the past. Before Tesfaye took the name The Weekend, he went by both Noise and Kin Kane.
Records
The Weeknd has won a number of Grammy awards and according to a recent report from Guinness book of records “the world’s most popular artist” – with 111.4 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
He is also the first artist ever to reach exactly 100 million monthly listeners.
The 33-year-old has visited Norway several times.
Do you remember this? Flashback to when Selena Gomez and The Weeknd were a couple:
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