The artist known as The weekend changed his social media profile to start using his real name, Abel Tesfaye. He is part of a plan he had already put forward, to revive his music career and start making films.
Also a composer and producer, he accumulates more than 55 million followers on Instagram and other 17 million on Twitternetworks that he uses to talk about his new projects.
However, he remains as “The Weeknd” on Spotify, a platform where last month he had 108 million listeners thanks to his new song Double Fantasy with The Future, and for his flip of die for you with Ariadne Grande.
“Close a Chapter”
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye said he was immersed in a “cathartic” process and that musically he wanted to “kill The Weeknd”, as he explained in an interview last week for the American magazine W Magazine.
“I am coming to a place and time where I am preparing to close the chapter on The Weeknd. I’m trying to shed that skin and be reborn. As The Weeknd I’ve already said all I could say,” he told her.
Projects as an actor
Abel Tesfaye’s next project is the idola drama series co-created by and starring himself, centering on the meteoric rise of a pop star and his complex relationship with a self-help guru and cult leader.
Source: Clarin
