The Weeknd, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye has shed light on his persona and why he wants to change his name in a fresh interview with W Magazine.
“I’m going through a cathartic path right now,” he told the magazine. “It’s getting to a place and a time where I’m getting ready to close The Weeknd chapter. I’ll still make music, maybe as Abel, maybe as The Weeknd. But I still want to kill The Weeknd. And I will. Eventually. I’m definitely trying to shed that skin and be reborn.”
As he embarks on that route, he has just finished filming the eagerly awaited HBO series “The Idol,” in which he co-stars with Lily-Rose Depp. The actor from Toronto portrays Tedros, a self-help guru and Jocelyn, the love interest of Johnny Depp’s character.
The Weeknd had what he called a “kind of breakdown” while performing on his After Hours til Dawn Tour and playing Tedros in the television series.
He basically claimed that on that fateful night in September 2022 at SoFi Stadium, this led him to lose his voice. After only a few songs, the performance had to be rescheduled.
“My theory is that I forgot how to sing because I was playing Tedros, a character who doesn’t know how to sing. I may be looking too deeply into this, but it was terrifying. As The Weeknd, I’ve never skipped a concert,” he explained. “I’ve performed with the flu. I’ll die on that stage. But there was something very complicated going on with my mind at that moment.”
With that being said, his voice is back and he’s back in the studio making new music, but it will be The Weeknd’s last.
“The album I’m working on now is probably my last hurrah as The Weeknd,” he revealed. “This is something that I have to do. As The Weeknd, I’ve said everything I can say.”
The Weeknd age
The Weekend is 36 years old. He was born on February 16, 1990. He is a Canadian singer and songwriter. He is a well-known character in modern popular music and is renowned for his unorthodox music production, creative reinventions, and distinctive usage of the falsetto register.
In addition to nominations for an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, he has won four Grammy Awards, twenty Billboard Music Awards, twenty-two Juno Awards, six American Music Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, a Latin Grammy Award, and twenty-two Juno Awards.
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