Abel Tesfaye has long toyed with ceasing to release music as The Weeknd, his globe-conquering R&B pop alias. Back in May 2024, he told W Magazine that his upcoming album, later revealed as Hurry ...

Ahead of the release of Hurry Up Tomorrow, billboards started popping up reading “The End Is Near,” written in different fonts representing Abel Tesfaye’s different eras as The Weeknd.

Like so many other artists these days, Abel Tesfaye has struggled with the extent of his own celebrity. “People get consumed, especially now, by the concept of being famous,” he told Variety ...

The Weeknd - whose real name is Abel Tesfaye - admits he could soon walk away from his stage name and move on to a new phase of his career. The 34-year-old music star hitmaker told “Variety ...

Abel Tesfaye, better known by his artistic moniker The Weeknd, is gearing up for the release of his sixth and reported final studio album, Hurry Up Tomorrow. The album is scheduled to be delivered ...

“All I have is my legacy,” Abel Tesfaye sings over the funereal opening bars of “Wake Me Up”. Produced by French electronic pioneers Justice, it’s a scene-setting moment for ...

Is this Abel Tesfaye’s final album as The Weeknd? Possibly. Probably. Or maybe not. In a recent interview, the king of streaming-era synth-pop spoke about “closing this chapter” but stopped ...

But when the artist born Abel Tesfaye inevitably returns after that release, it might not be as the Weeknd. “Everything needs to feel like a challenge. And for me right now, the Weeknd ...

His voice cracked. When Tesfaye tried to sing his next line, nothing came out. Footage of the moment shows the stunned artist, looking close to tears as his fans erupted into their own howls of ...

Abel Makkonen Tesfaye. It’s not a spontaneous decision for the star. It’s something he has been considering for a while, since 2022, to be exact, when he was caught up in a devastating on ...

After almost 16 years spent as The Weeknd, Abel Tesfaye says he is considering retiring his famous musical moniker after his upcoming projects. Tesfaye spoke at length about his experiences with ...

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