Will we be hearing the last of The Weeknd (styled “the Weeknd”) soon?
The “Blinding Lights” hitmaker, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, told W Magazine that he’s retiring his stage name because “I’ve said everything I can say.”
He added how he’s now at “a place and time where” he is ready “close The Weeknd chapter.”
“I’ll still make music, maybe as Abel, maybe as The Weeknd. But I still want to kill The Weeknd. And I will. Eventually. I’m definitely trying to shed that skin and be reborn,” he added.
Prior to being known as The Weeknd, the singer already released music in December 2010 under the name Tesfaye as well as under the aliases Noise and Kin Kane.
He officially adopted what everyone knows today as the Weeknd in late 2010. He then went on and collected various awards, including four Grammys, 20 trophies from the Billboard Music Awards and one Latin Grammy award, among others.
Before he buries one of this generation’s most successful artists, The Weeknd is still busy with his upcoming film The Idol alongside Lily-Rose Depp.
Apart from being one of the cast members, Tesfaye is also one of the executive producers and creators of the film.