Date: July 20
Location: Olympic Stadium
The chart-topping pop, hip hop and R&B star. One of the biggest artists of the 2010s, The Weeknd’s razor-edged music is an alchemy of genres and real-life experiences. Born in Toronto as Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, he’s a native Canadian of Ethiopian descent. His first language was Amharic, which he still speaks fluently, and he grew up listening to Ethiopian artists such as Tilahun Gessesse and Aster Aweke, while Michael Jackson and Prince also spurred him on to becoming a singer.
At the age of 17, Tesfaye left home, grabbing his mattress and packing a bag one weekend. He hated his name at the time and thought “The Weekend” sounded cool – but removed the “e” because another Canadian band had already laid claim to the name.
In 2010, he uploaded a handful of songs to YouTube as The Weeknd, including What You Need and Loft Music. The following year, he wrote and sang on several tracks for Drake’s Take Care album before co-founding the Canadian record label XO and releasing a trio of mixtapes: House Of Balloons, Thursday and Echoes Of Silence (containing D.D., a re-interpretation of the Michael Jackson’s Dirty Diana). These mixtapes were remastered and reissued as Trilogy in 2012, the same year The Weeknd made his US live debut at Coachella.
The Weeknd’s first full-length album, Kiss Land, arrived in 2013. A dark and eerie collection of songs, he said that his aim was to capture the feeling of fear that comes from watching a horror movie.
His follow-up, 2015's Beauty Behind The Madness, began his reign on the Billboard albums and singles charts. Selling over three million copies, it was certified triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. In addition to scoring No.1 hits with The Hills and Can’t Feel My Face, three more tracks – Often, In The Night and Acquainted – climbed onto the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with Earned It being featured in the film Fifty Shades Of Grey. The Weeknd received seven Grammy nominations, winning for Best Urban Contemporary Album and Best R&B Performance, while the song Earned It scored him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song.
The After Hours Til Dawn Stadium Tour will arrive in Madrid and Barcelona: on July 18 at the Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano and on July 20 at the Estadi Olímpic Lluis Companys
Info: https://www.ticketmaster.es/artist/the-weeknd-tickets/884434?language=en-us
Location: Olympic Stadium
The chart-topping pop, hip hop and R&B star. One of the biggest artists of the 2010s, The Weeknd’s razor-edged music is an alchemy of genres and real-life experiences. Born in Toronto as Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, he’s a native Canadian of Ethiopian descent. His first language was Amharic, which he still speaks fluently, and he grew up listening to Ethiopian artists such as Tilahun Gessesse and Aster Aweke, while Michael Jackson and Prince also spurred him on to becoming a singer.
At the age of 17, Tesfaye left home, grabbing his mattress and packing a bag one weekend. He hated his name at the time and thought “The Weekend” sounded cool – but removed the “e” because another Canadian band had already laid claim to the name.
In 2010, he uploaded a handful of songs to YouTube as The Weeknd, including What You Need and Loft Music. The following year, he wrote and sang on several tracks for Drake’s Take Care album before co-founding the Canadian record label XO and releasing a trio of mixtapes: House Of Balloons, Thursday and Echoes Of Silence (containing D.D., a re-interpretation of the Michael Jackson’s Dirty Diana). These mixtapes were remastered and reissued as Trilogy in 2012, the same year The Weeknd made his US live debut at Coachella.
The Weeknd’s first full-length album, Kiss Land, arrived in 2013. A dark and eerie collection of songs, he said that his aim was to capture the feeling of fear that comes from watching a horror movie.
His follow-up, 2015's Beauty Behind The Madness, began his reign on the Billboard albums and singles charts. Selling over three million copies, it was certified triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. In addition to scoring No.1 hits with The Hills and Can’t Feel My Face, three more tracks – Often, In The Night and Acquainted – climbed onto the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with Earned It being featured in the film Fifty Shades Of Grey. The Weeknd received seven Grammy nominations, winning for Best Urban Contemporary Album and Best R&B Performance, while the song Earned It scored him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song.
The After Hours Til Dawn Stadium Tour will arrive in Madrid and Barcelona: on July 18 at the Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano and on July 20 at the Estadi Olímpic Lluis Companys
Info: https://www.ticketmaster.es/artist/the-weeknd-tickets/884434?language=en-us