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 “Love Me Harder,” “Earned It,” “The Hills,” “Can’t Feel My Face,” “In the Night,” “Acquainted,” “Starboy,” “I Feel It Coming,” “Party Monster,” “Die for You,” “Pray for Me,” “Call Out My Name,” “Heartless,” “Blinding Lights,” “After Hours,” “In Your Eyes,” “Smile,” “Save Your Tears,” “Hawái,” “You Right,” “Take My Breath,” “Hurricane,” “One Right Now,” “Sacrifice,” “Out of Time,” “Less than Zero,” “Creepin’,” “Double Fantasy,” “K-pop,” “Young Metro,” “Dancing in the Flames,” “Timeless,” and, in a feature role, “Crew Love” and “Low Life.” He has often used the falsetto register, and has created music in the contemporary and alternative R&B, pop, hip hop, dance-pop, new wave, and dream-pop styles. He co-founded the XO record label, and co-created and starred in the series The Idol. The Weeknd has sold over 75 million records worldwide; his song “Blinding Lights” has been the most-streamed in Spotify history. 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.
Typical mulatto, atypical horner. The average amhara is 50/50 east african/southwest asian, he looks more european/bantoid.
@Peanut thats not correct. The typical horner is NOT 50% white. I would say more like 15 to 20% of less. My ex sister in law was Ethiopian. Many Ethiopians are not mixed at all. Only a small portion is mixed. The weekend looks basically black African American to me. If anything I would say 75-85% Bantu. He does not look half white at all. His hair is very very kinky. It would be softer and his features would be softer. Skin tone does not matter.
Quote(@Peanut thats not correct. The typical horner is NOT 50% white. I would say more like 15 to 20% of less)
IMO, I wouldn’t say they were white at all. Having so-called matching dna from thousands of year ago, doesn’t mean the Ethiopians were ever white. We already know that thousands of years ago the Ethiopians were referred to as (burnt-face aka black). They are the ones as well as other Africans who seeded what is now the Middle East and all the places beyond that.. All those people were black and brown skin, not pale. Even the rock art in places like Turkey shows the people were black and brown skin, not pale just 9000yrs ago.:
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We also know that the people who went towards Europe and places like that after splitting up the group in the Middle East got the pale skin mutation, within the last 5.5-7000yrs. So imo the Ethiopians weren’t ever white people even thou they share similar dna from living in the same area for thousands of yrs, then splitting up for whatever reason(probably lack of resources or the climate shift)
@Fuzzybear44 Great Points I agree. Ethiopians are some of the OLDEST humans on earth. The uneducated public keeps buying into the fact that whites own their features but whites arent very old as a race compared to African Ethiopians.Ethiopians had their various features BEFORE whites were ever born as a race. AND blacks lived all over Africa and the middle east. Whites later developed by an white mutated gene that came into existence as modern humans migrated up North toward Europe. So there is no such thing as “caucasian features”
I see absolutely NO Caucasian features on this man and he is not even that light skinned. Look at his hair its fully black African. This man has kinkier hair than myself and I do not consider my self mixed.
@Neiltenant his hair is super tight and super kinky. Skin tone has been noted to be the LEAST and last determinant of racial admixture, therefore HAIR texture is more of an indicator of admixture. There are 100% Africans all over the continent with his skin tone which is NOT that light. He is barely light skinned. All Africans are not dark skinned. Also many dark skinned blacks with wavy curly hair are MORE mixed than lighter blacks with kinky hair. Trust me I am from a mixed country. You cannot say because a black person is lighter skinned that they are mixed. Not accurate at all.
Nice hair…
MJ reincarnated
He looks like a regular African American male.
A regular African American male does not look mixed like this, regular african american males are darker with wider noses, somewhat like 50 cent, the dream looks like a mixed male with african european maybe native dna
@Mdelacruz16
This guy (the weekend), would fit in the African American population, with no problem. We come all different ways, with different shape noses, types of hair , and skin color etc.
you’re kidding right? African Americans have a lot of white ancestry due to the shit whites have done to them in the past, but I agree that he doesn’t look just African, rather black and white.
Admixture is NOT primarily determined by skin tone. Light skin means nothing. He has SUPER kinky as some people would say NAPPY hair , that hair is very black African regardless of his skin tone. Most even half white half African black people have looser curls. His hair tells it all. Its all black African.
@Medlacruz the Weekend does not look mixed to me. His hair is the tell tale of non mixture or not that much. 100 black Africans are his skin tone and he is not that light.
no he doesn’t
@Multiethnicchick
Actually he does. I didn’t know he was Ethiopian until I came to the site