The mystery of the missing “e” at last explained. The Weeknd, aka Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, famously spells his stage name with two not three “e”s and now, thanks to a recently resurfaced Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything), we know why.
As JustJared notes, The Weeknd made the revelation back in 2013. RELATED: Toronto Mayor Declares Super Sunday To Be ‘The Weeknd Day’ In Honour Of His Halftime Show Performance “I left home when I was about 17 dropped out of high school and convinced [high school friend and now creative director] Lamar [Taylor] to do the same lol,” he explained. “We grabbed our mattresses from our parents threw it in our friends shitty van and left one weekend and never came back home.” Abel added that he was going to title his first
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