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Abel Tesfaye has hinted that he's planning to retire the Weeknd as a stage name, but that might no longer be the case.

The "Can't Feel My Face" singer got personal about his difficult past Blake Bakkila is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has appeared in Sunset.com, ...

The proposed change was never meant to signal the end of his music career. Instead, Tesfaye described it as an attempt to close a creative chapter, shed the character he had built and determine what ...

After a decade and a half spent revolutionizing pop and R&B, The Weeknd is ready to take on the world of film. The artist born Abel Tesfaye stars in Hurry Up Tomorrow, a new autofictional horror-drama ...

LAS VEGAS − Abel Tesfaye, the musician known as The Weeknd, is a certified smash. Tesfaye, the movie star, is more of an unknown commodity. Audiences get to see both at work in the psychological ...

Canadian singer-songwriter Abel Tesfaye is known worldwide as "The Weeknd", a name he thought he would leave behind. However, ...

Wait, Is This Really the End? In a 2023 interview with W, the Weeknd claimed that Hurry Up Tomorrow would serve as a skin-shedding for his career: “The album I’m working on now is probably my last ...