Early life. The Weeknd was born Abel Makkonen Tesfaye on 16 February 1990 in Toronto, Ontario, and was raised in the district of Scarborough, in the city’s east end. He is the only child of Makkonen and Samra Tesfaye, who were Ethiopian immigrants to Canada in the late 1980s.. Tesfaye was raised by his grandmother and mother after his parents split up. …
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