The Weeknd
The Weeknd in 2015, photo by Prphotos.com
Birth Name: Abel Makkonen Tesfaye
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Date of Birth: February 16, 1990
Ethnicity: Amhara Ethiopian
The Weeknd is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and record producer. His songs include “Earned It,” “Can’t Feel My Face,” “The Hills,” “Starboy,” “Die For You,” “Blinding Lights,” “Heartless,” “Save Your Tears,” “Take My Breath,” “Sacrifice,” “Out of Time,” and “Less than Zero.” He has often used the falsetto register, and has created music in the pop, R&B, alternative R&B, hip hop, dance, new wave, and dream pop styles. He founded the XO record label, and co-created and starred in the series The Idol. The Weeknd has sold over 75 million records worldwide. He has been a World Food Programme Goodwill Ambassador since 2021, and is an advocate against racism and food insecurity. He is also known as The Noise, Kin Kane, and by his birth name Abel Tesfaye.
The Weeknd’s parents, Samrawit Hailu and Makkonen Tesfaye, are Ethiopian. He is fluent in Amharic, a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia. Growing up, he attended services at an Ethiopian Orthodox church. He was raised in Scarborough, and attended a French-immersion school. The Weeknd grew up listening to soul, quiet storm, hip hop, funk, indie rock, and post-punk.
The Weeknd’s paternal grandfather is named Tesfaye.
The Weeknd’s maternal grandmother is named Hailu.
Full Ethiopian? I saw him on Snl. Not really a big fan but it was ok…
Looks west African instead of the typical Ethiopian look.
West Africans look like Akon. They look stereotypically dark Africans.
This guy looks very Ethiopian. Slightly lighter and rather Arabic looking.
I think he looks West African too, not a single curl pattern to his hair, its fully Afro textured. Even though there are West Africans with loose kinky curly hair
West African black Tauregs
Ethiopians are genetically half black African half caucasian/middle eastern
@Lelo4, you must not know any Ethiopians what you are saying is WRONG. Ehtiopians are not half white they are Black East Africans at 100 percent. Whites like to take credit for them as well as ARabs because of there features. Ethiopians are the oldest humans on earth and most are 100 percent pure East African. Somalians are too. Arabs are hairy people with hook noses, Ethiopians do not have these traits. Also Europeans are a younger race than Ethiopians. They dug up the graves of olde Ethiopian bones and there facial features were exactly the same as today. These people are pure and the oldest black race in Africa.
Somalian born model Iman has always stated that she is a pure 100 percent black East African with no Arab or white Admixutre with a thin nose, thin lips, etc. so called cacusian feture, which are not. East Africans developed independently of Europeans and Arabs. In their part of Africa the weather and climate is different,
link:
http://www.blackenterprise.com/small-business/backtalk-with-iman/
http://www.hfmagazineonline.com/super-model-and-beauty-icon-iman-turns-60/
Ethiopian Lya Kebede pure black East African (no admixture)
http://www.theplace2.ru/photos/Liya-Kebede-md194/pic-375684.html
“Arabs are hairy people with hook noses”. Nice comment LOL
So are Italians and many Southern Europeans. So rich coming from a short hairy greaser like yourself. Lmao…
Projection much, Andrew?
Midori told the truth, deal with it.
@lelo4 there is a SMALL population of mixed Ethiopians but thats not the whole country. You forget about these Ethiopians. Ethiopians are super diverse. On average they are not half white.
http://vacationethiopiatravel.com/index.php/dt_places/southern-cultural-heritage/
Btw, this guy looks way older than his age. I thought he was in his 30s.
Wow I had no idea he was Ethiopian. I thought he was biracial (black and white). He looks mixed.
Most Ethiopians are mixed with Caucasian. Of course someone is going to argue with that statement, but most Ethiopians and Eritreans do not look like other black Africans. They’re basically darker skinned white people, some even could pass as Indians. They are not pure black.
Get the fuck out of here they pure black you dumb M.F
calm down and stop cursing…
open your eyes and stop acting like a blind child.
ethiopians do have different features than the rest of africans… this is fact!
you are acting like an ignorant.
You wrong dumb ass!!!
he looks like a mulatto. I’ve never seen an Ethiopian with his look.
you are right.
I would never guessed him ethiopian.
some sudanese, some eritrean or the most ethiopian have caucasian facial features like high forehead etc.
here an example of a ethiopian family:
http://www.pahte.com/images/06-03-05-Ethiopia-Shiraro.gif
@sarahle
( most ethiopian have caucasian facial features like high forehead etc)
That is not correct. There are between 80-100 groups there, most of whom are not Caucasoid. they promote the ones on the web and in the media that are Caucasoid, and ignore the rest
I have never seen an Ethiopian with hair that Kinky. That is West African Ghanian or Nigerian hair. or some other part of Africa that migrated to East Africa.
This woman is 100 percent black West African and she is lighter than the Weekend.
100 percent West African woman
http://nypost.com/2015/12/19/amadou-diallos-furious-mom-bratton-owes-me-an-explanation/
He looks pure 100 black to me
Have you actually looked?
@midori29
Quote(I have never seen an Ethiopian with hair that Kinky. That is West African Ghanian or Nigerian hair.)
Have to disagree a little bit. As I mention before, there are about 80-100 different groups there. This group here was said to be indigenous to Ethiopia, and were actually push off their land by the Somalians in the tenth century. Their hair looks pretty kinky to me:
http://cache2.asset-cache.net/gc/125210235-ethiopia-shewa-province-metahara-a-kereyu-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=NQnUeHmXsj7ogajiofAUmwMObttmGjFXXPVk5Q9g%2BwHvUvsfv4H3UTtMPfgStCg2
http://galerie.toiquiviensdethiopie.com/d/34567-3/5097182198_3c5a5a121d_z.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2864/9416903454_cf1bca397d.jpg
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5027/5735593273_5cd2dd346d_z.jpg
http://c8.alamy.com/comp/D11NAH/karrayyu-tribe-during-gadaaa-ceremony-metahara-ethiopia-D11NAH.jpg
They do try to relax it with that butter. Like I said, I only disagree about the hair thing.
P.S.
Every heard about the human zoos in Europe and the U.S.?
Quote(have you actually looked)
That was for andrew
“he looks like a mulatto. I’ve never seen an Ethiopian with his look.”
the problem that you have weird stereotypes of how people look, Haven’t seen an Ethiopian with this look doesn’t mean that there is no ethiopian with this look,Ethiopia is a diverse country, and indeed he looks ethiopian, may be he doesn’t look like the stereotypical ethiopian in your mind
Don’t be ridiculous. I confirm what I said if you dont mind.
@andrew
I’m not a ridiculous, and I dont care of what you think about people that is your opinion,and I also give my opinion like you, and I think that you really have a weird stereotypes of how people look, Ethiopia is a country of more than 100 million people and there are many ethnicities and not all ethiopians look the same, and you easily judged his look according to some ethiopians you have seen that absolutely doesn’t make any sense
they are 100% africans. africans do look different all over the continent. but theoretically there is a chance they are mixed with caucasian.
true, some could pass as indians. for example:http://www.johangerrits.nl/galleries/content/1.Travel/Ethiopia/Ethiopia_north/239.%20Girl%20from%20the%20Gurage%20minority%20-%20Ethiopia.jpg
at M
These people could never pass as a Punjabi Sikh maybe a South Indian, but I have seen Ethiopians like him before. When I was in Switzerland a person said I don’t look Indian. Then he said I look like a Bollywood Actor plus I’ve been told I can pass as Afghan, Iranian and Arab.
No, NO, NO the look of Ethiopians DID NOT come from white people or Caucasians, the Caucasian look came from black Ethiopians. Ethiopians are the OLDEST people on the earth. They came FIRST. The bones were dug up of ancheint Ethiopians and they looked exactly the same as they do today.
@M you made me realize that there are a lot of IGNORANT people who do not know what black people look like. We come in all different skin tones dark midnight to high yellow and all different hair textures, and colors. curly, kinky, wavy, blonde and red. Please do a google search before you speak NONSENSE. Some people on this site are really really ignorant, wow.
Real black 100 percent West Africans
http://nypost.com/2015/12/19/amadou-diallos-furious-mom-bratton-owes-me-an-explanation/
@M, not true, MOST Ethiopians are pure black Africans and will tell you that
You do not have hair like that and be mixed, that’s 100 percent pure African hair. Most of the time half black half white has finer looser hair. Going by skin tone is not a good thing. There are 100 percent light skin black Africans, lighter than the weekend. You forget there are West Africans who look like this.
Mother of Amadu Dialo, the slain black man by the police, she is 100 percent black West African.
http://nypost.com/2015/12/19/amadou-diallos-furious-mom-bratton-owes-me-an-explanation/
@ihatemostpeople. NOthing about the Weekend looks mixed. Stop with that train of thought. Just because a black person happens to be a little lighter does not mean they are mixed. Singer Prince was alot lighter, softer haired and finer featured than the Weekend but no one called PRINCE mixed because he had two black parents.
http://groovevolt.com/2016/06/29/prince-purple-rain-motorcycle-jacket-and-ruffled-shirt-auctioned-on-ebay/