The donation was made as part of Bikila Award’s fundraising initiative at U of T's Varsity stadium: Bikila Barefoot Challenge. On Saturday, The Weeknd announced his support for the effort and linked to further information on the initiative and where to make donations. The Weeknd, whose parents emigrated from Ethiopia, responded to the call from local Ethiopian leaders to help raise money for the university’s efforts to create Ethiopian studies. “Ethiopian studies is a great way to enrich our curriculum in African studies because it is one of the great civilizational cultures of Africa and the world,” said Professor Tim Harrison, chair of the department of Near and Middle Eastern civilizations.Īs part of that goal to raise endowment funds, Toronto native Abel Tesfaye, a.k.a. Starting in spring 2017 with a course in the ancient – and now largely extinct – language of Ge’ez, the department of Near and Middle Eastern civilizations is working to build the foremost curriculum for Ethiopian studies here at the University of Toronto.
Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one." - The Weeknd " 'House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations.Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed." - The Weeknd " Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it.But when you're in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life - you write about the mindset you're in at that moment." - The Weeknd You experience more, meet more people, better people. " The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old.Here are the best quotes from The Weeknd! Top 5 The Weeknd Quotes Top 5 The Weeknd Quotes The rejection of his songs even provided him a springboard-type situation that boosted him to the top of the music industry pyramid. With tons of love growing up provided by her mother and grandmother combined with a troubled childhood from the absence of his father and education, his talents provide enough evidence that whatever the stakes are-nothing's stopping you from succeeding. If there's anything to thank for The Weeknd's career, it's these three albums. It doesn't stop there, however, as he also released "Thursday" and "Echoes of Silence" in 2011. A year later, he created his debut mixtape titled "House of Balloons" and began performing live.
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His professional career, as they would say, started when he met producer Jeremy Rose and collaborated on an R&B album titled "The Weekend." After creating three songs for Rose's album, Rose didn't include Abel's songs when it was all said and done.Īfter that, Abel decided to create his own channel on YouTube under the name "The Weeknd" to share the rejected three songs on the platform.Īfter not much time, he gained traction left and right in 2010. Once he was decided to not attend school anymore, Abel left his home to live with his friends in a one-bedroom house. However, he was kicked out of one and dropped out of the other after only six months of attendance.
Impressively, her mother worked two full-time jobs, at this time, just to support Abel and the family-all the while attending night school.Ībel attended West Hill Collegiate Institute and Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute during his childhood. However, when his dad left, his mother and grandmother were the ones who raised him primarily.
The Weeknd only needed less than a decade to explode in the music industry, gain millions of followers, become one of the most mainstream artists in the world, and collab with the best of the best.įrom Ethiopia, Abel's parents, Makkonen and Samra Tesfaye, came to Ontario to give birth and raise their only child.
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