The Weeknd

Abel Makkonen Tesfaye born February 16 1990 known professionally as The Weeknd is a Canadian singer songwriter and record producer He is noted for his unconventional music production artistic reinventions and his signature use of the falsetto register His accolades include 4 Grammy Awards 20 Billboard Music Awards 22 Juno Awards 6 American Music Awards 2 MTV Video Music Awards a Latin Grammy Award and nominations for an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award Tesfaye earned critical and commercial success with his popleaning second album Beauty Behind the Madness 2015 which reached number one in the US contained the US Billboard Hot 100 charttopping singles Cant Feel My Face and The Hills and won the Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album and was nominated for Album of the Year His trapinfused third album Starboy 2016 saw similar commercial success and included the US numberone single of the same name and Die for You and won the Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album Tesfaye explored new wave and dream pop with his criticallyacclaimed fourth studio album After Hours 2020 which featured the chart recordsetting single Blinding Lights and the US numberone singles Heartless and Save Your Tears Dancepop inspired his fifth album Dawn FM 2022 which included the US topten single Take My Breath Tesfaye is a cinephile and has made numerous movie references in his music videos and teasers On August 30 2019 during the Telluride Film Festival he made his acting debut in the film Uncut Gems On March 7 2020 during his third appearance as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live he starred in the skit On The Couch with actors Kenan Thompson and Chris Redd On May 4 he cowrote and starred in an episode of American Dad In July he voiced three characters during the 200th episode of Robot Chicken On June 29 2021 Tesfaye announced that he would be cocreating cowriting executive producing and starring in the HBO television drama series The Idol alongside his producing partner Reza Fahim and Euphoria creator Sam Levinson On March 20 2022 Tesfaye voiced two characters during an episode of The Simpsons In 2023 it was announced that Tesfaye is cowriting a film with Trey Edward Shults who is attached to direct Tesfaye is also set to star in the film alongside Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan Description above from the Wikipedia article The Weeknd licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia