The Artist : The Weeknd

THE WEEKND : So Far

Abel Tesfaye also know by his performer name, 'The weeknd' is of Ethiopian descent born on February 16th 1990 making him 22 years of age. The singer, song writer and producer currently resides in Ontario, Canada and was noticed and signed to the well known Canadian rapper Aubery 'Drake' Graham's 'OVO XO' record label. Since then he has been remarked as 'The songbird of his generation', as well as 'The best musical talent since Michael Jackson', by big music publications such as MTV, XXL, Rolling Stones, The Source, BET and many many more.

The Weeknd Started a trend in releasing Three 9 song free Mix tape's entitled 'House Of Balloons', 'Thursday' and 'Echoes Of Silence', which is his most Recent Project. He did this under a unknown alias not showing himself untill the release of his second Mixtape. Once he started of with 'The House Of Balloons' Mixtape as a free download on his website the-weeknd.com The rise in wanting to know who it was behind this great music grew more and more and within months the second Mix tape to the 3 part trilogy was released, this time people being more aware of what was to come and what talent was there to be on show, the second mix tape was downloaded so much that the weeknd's site crashed and had to be rebooted. His Latest project and Mix tape called 'Echoes Of Silence' was more of a tribute to his Idol Michael Jackson with a 'Dirty Diana' Cover tribute towards him. All of these Mix Tapes can be found and downloaded on his website for no fee what so ever and in my eyes is a very clever idea as a promotional tool to raise awareness to the music industry of who you are.

The weeknd for all of his songs released has purposefully not created music video's as he would like to remain mysterious and thought about towards his fans. However, he does have one video to the song called 'The kowing', off of his first mixtape 'The House Of Balloons', in which it's more of a clever slideshow of images and dreams put together to create a un-surreal world and vision http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPp5Ty9EE6k

The Weeknd within his music is very emotionally tied, talking about taboo subject's such as Alcohol, Drugs and very commonly women. his lyrics are very deep and dark making his listener zone out to what is known as 'High Music' here is some lyrics from his song entitled 'XO The Host' from his 'Echoes Of Silence' Mix Tape. http://www.killerhiphop.com/the-weeknd-xo-the-host-lyrics/

I as a listener and fan of his music find it rather entertaining and inciteful as he sings and describes a dark world he lives in that many of us can only wonder about. his music being very viral has had a dramatic affect on his status as a musician raising awareness of him self to many big musicians and important people in the music industry.