The Weeknd Says He’s Planning To Ditch His Stage Name: ‘I’m Getting Ready To Close The Weeknd Chapter’
etcanada.comGoodbye Weeknd, hello Abel. This week, W Magazine debuted its annual ‘The Pop Issue”, with “The Idol” stars The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp on the cover. READ MORE: The Weeknd Is The Latest Celeb Joining The Bidding War For The Ottawa Senators In the issue, The Weeknd, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, talks about his plans to ditch his stage name in the near future. “I’m going through a cathartic path right now.
It’s getting to a place and a time where I’m getting ready to close the Weeknd chapter,” he says. “I’ll still make music, maybe as Abel, maybe as The Weeknd.
But I still want to kill The Weeknd,” Tesfaye continues. “And I will. Eventually. I’m definitely trying to shed that skin and be reborn.
Talking about when the death of “The Weeknd” might finally happen, the artist says, “The album I’m working on now is probably my last hurrah as The Weeknd.
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