What is The Weeknd’s native language?

What is The Weeknd’s native language?

Tesfaye’s mother and grandmother immigrated in the 1980s to Canada from Ethiopia, and his first language was Amharic.

Is The Weeknd fluent in Amharic?

In a 2013 Reddit AMA, The Weeknd discussed what it was like learning Amharic before English. A fan on Reddit asked him if he spoke the Ethiopian language, and he responded that he speaks it “fluently” to this day. He even included a romantic outro in Amharic in his number 1 hit “The Hills.”

Is The Weeknd Hispanic?

Abel Makkonen Tesfaye was born on February 16, 1990, in Toronto, Ontario. He is the only child of Ethiopian immigrants Makkonen Tesfaye and Samrawit Hailu, who separated shortly after his birth.

Why is The Weeknd’s face always bloody?

Specifically, it was a callback to his “Blinding Lights” music video, in which The Weeknd beaten to a pulp by bouncers, drives drunk, and ends up covered in blood—”I don’t want to ever promote drunk driving, but that’s what the dark undertone is,” he told Esquire (opens in new tab)—and the short film he released with …