The Weeknd
The Weeknd in 2015, photo by Prphotos.com
Birth Name: Abel Makkonen Tesfaye
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Date of Birth: February 16, 1990
Ethnicity: Amhara Ethiopian
The Weeknd is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. His songs include “Love Me Harder,” “Earned It,” “The Hills,” “Can’t Feel My Face,” “In the Night,” “Acquainted,” “Starboy,” “I Feel It Coming,” “Party Monster,” “Die for You,” “Pray for Me,” “Call Out My Name,” “Heartless,” “Blinding Lights,” “After Hours,” “In Your Eyes,” “Smile,” “Save Your Tears,” “Hawái,” “You Right,” “Take My Breath,” “Hurricane,” “One Right Now,” “Sacrifice,” “Out of Time,” “Less than Zero,” “Creepin’,” “Double Fantasy,” “K-pop,” “Young Metro,” “Dancing in the Flames,” “Timeless,” and, in a feature role, “Crew Love” and “Low Life.” He has often used the falsetto register, and has created music in the contemporary and alternative R&B, pop, hip hop, dance-pop, new wave, and dream-pop styles. He co-founded the XO record label, co-created and starred on the series The Idol, and featured in the films Uncut Gems and Hurry Up Tomorrow. The Weeknd has sold over 75 million records worldwide; his song “Blinding Lights” has been the most-streamed in Spotify history. He has been a World Food Programme Goodwill Ambassador since 2021, and is an advocate against racism and food insecurity. He is also known as The Noise, Kin Kane, and by his birth name Abel Tesfaye.
The Weeknd’s parents, Samrawit Hailu and Makkonen Tesfaye, are Ethiopian. He is fluent in Amharic, a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia. Growing up, he attended services at an Ethiopian Orthodox church. He was raised in Scarborough, and attended a French-immersion school. The Weeknd grew up listening to soul, quiet storm, hip hop, funk, indie rock, and post-punk.
The Weeknd’s paternal grandfather is named Tesfaye.
The Weeknd’s maternal grandmother is named Hailu.
Ethiopian-Eritrean naming standards have the following name format:
Given name (Child’s name) – Middle name (Father’s name) – Last name (Paternal grandfather’s name)
Example: Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed Ali, son of Ahmed Ali, son of Ali
Based on this format, The Weeknd’s paternal grandfather is named Tesfaye.
I just got back to this as I stated before @nieltenant The Weekend does not look half caucasian at all. He looks regular black. The average black man. His hair is much much too kinky. Most mixed people do not have hair like his, it tends to be finer, etc.. His hair extremely thick, course and bushy. The hair is a giveaway with the exception of singer Lenny Kravitz and even his hair is not as course. Most lighter skinned black people and he is not that light that have very very kinky hair like “The Weekend” are usually not half caucasian and you should know that one. There are tons of 100 percent black Africans his skin tone and lighter. Not to mention The Weekend has very heavy lips and other features. I do not know how he gets supermodels as he is not that good looking. Link to more 100 percent light skinned black Africans https://youtu.be/lOTH8_CCr5M
_ He looks regular black. The average black man
LMFAO
The woman in your video is a South African Khoisan, which are not even classified as “Negroid” by some anthropologists, and are a different people from the other Sub-Sarahan ethnic groups.
Ethiopians are different but are they part black, African, perhaps? But not only African, because it certainly has different traits, right?
Andrew
What African woman is this
I thought that these people were just a conjoint without having light or dark skin
Are all these ethnicities like this?
I thought that people of that ethnicity could have be very dark skin tone or light
Wilson et al. (2001), conducted a DNA study based on cluster analysis that looked at a combined sample of Amhara and Oromo, examining a single enzyme variant: drug metabolizing enzyme (DME) loci. They found that 62% of Ethiopians fall into the same cluster of Ashkenazi Jews, Norwegians and Armenians based on that gene, and only 24% of Ethiopians cluster with Bantus and Afro-Caribbeans, 8% with Papua New Guineans, and 6% with Chinese.[49]
An investigation by Tishkoff et al. (2009) identified fourteen ancestral population clusters which correlate with self-described ethnicity and shared cultural and/or linguistic properties within Africa, in what was the largest autosomal study of the continent at the time.[failed verification][50] The Burji, Konso and Beta Israel were sampled from Ethiopia. The Afroasiatic speaking Ethiopians sampled were cumulatively (Fig.5B) found to belong to: 71% in the “Cushitic” cluster, 6% in the “Saharan/Dogon” cluster, 5% in the “Niger Kordofanian” cluster, 3% each in the “Nilo-Saharan” and “Chadic Saharan” cluster, while the balance (12%) of their assignment was distributed among the remnant (9) Associated Ancestral Clusters (AAC’s) found in Sub-Saharan Africa.[51] The “Cushitic” cluster was also deemed “closest to the non-African AACs, consistent with an East African migration of modern humans out of Africa or a back-migration of non-Africans into Saharan areas and Eastern Africa.”[52]
Other studies conducted on Ethiopians belonging to Semitic and Cushitic ethnic groups mostly from the north of the country (Oromo, Amhara, Tigray, and Gurage), estimate approximately 40% of their autosomal ancestry to be derived from an ancient “non-African” back-migration from the Near East and about 60% to be of native African origin (from a population indigenous or “autochthonous” to the Horn of Africa).[53][54] Pickrell et al. (2014) found that the West Eurasian ancestry peaks in the Amhara and Tigrayans at 49% and 50%, respectively.[55] Walsh, Sandra et al. (2020) which sampled 119 genome-wide-samples of Ethiopian populations similarly outlined the proportion of West Asian ancestry, their data showed that: “The masked West Asian component measures the proportion of West Asian ancestry in each population. The Amhara and Oromo populations have the highest amount (54 and 51%, respectively), Wolayta and Somali show 43 and 44%, respectively, while in contrast the Gumuz show the low amount of 0.7%. These values agree with previous estimates.”[56]
Ethiopes has striking features african, but looks mixed too
CORRECTION: Add this, He is the son is Samra and Makkonen Tesfaye
Never mind.
So he’s now 27 and not 30? Hmmm…
PRINCE the singer had two black parents and was African American compare him to the WEEKEND and the WEEKEND does not look mixed at all.
PRINCE
http://groovevolt.com/2016/06/29/prince-purple-rain-motorcycle-jacket-and-ruffled-shirt-auctioned-on-ebay/