144-607: Abel Makkonen Tesfaye ( Amharic : አቤል መኮንን ተስፋዬ ; born February 16, 1990), known professionally as the Weeknd , is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actor. He is known for his unconventional musical production, artistic reinventions and use of the falsetto register. Tesfaye began releasing music anonymously in 2009. After co-founding the record label XO , he released three mixtapes— House of Balloons , Thursday , and Echoes of Silence —in 2011, and gained recognition for his blend of contemporary and alternative R&B , as well as
288-580: A Mercedes-Benz commercial. On November 27, he released " Heartless " as the lead single from his fourth studio album. The song debuted at number thirty-two on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at number one, making it Tesfaye's fourth number-one single. "Blinding Lights" was released two days after the release of "Heartless" on November 29. The single debuted at number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at number one, making it Tesfaye's fifth number-one single. "Blinding Lights" would then go on to become
432-443: A falsetto register. J. D. Considine finds his singing's " tremulous quality" similar to Michael Jackson, but writes that he eschews Jackson's "strong basis in the blues " for a more Arabic -influenced melisma . Tesfaye possesses a wide light-lyric tenor vocal range, which spans over three octaves. His vocal range reaches its extreme low at the bass F (F 2 ), and its peak high at the tenor G ♯ (G ♯ 5 ), with
576-513: A holy language by the Rastafari religion and is widely used among its followers worldwide. Early Afro-Asiatic populations speaking proto- Semitic , proto- Cushitic and proto- Omotic languages would have diverged by the fourth or fifth millennium BC. Shortly afterwards, the proto-Cushitic and proto-Omotic groups would have settled in the Ethiopian highlands, with the proto-Semitic speakers crossing
720-513: A pidgin as early as the 4th century AD to enable communication between Aksumite soldiers speaking Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic languages, but this hypothesis has not garnered widespread acceptance. The preservation in Old Amharic of VSO word order and gutturals typical of Semitic languages, Cushitic influences shared with other Ethio-Semitic languages (especially those of the Southern branch), and
864-518: A "crutch" for him when he wrote music. Before releasing music under his current stage name, he went under the alias 'Kin Kane', as part of a hip-hop duo called 'Bulleez n Nerdz', and was part of a production team called 'the Noise'. In August 2009, Tesfaye began anonymously releasing music on YouTube . The following year, he met the producer Jeremy Rose at a party. Rose asked Tesfaye if he wanted to work together as
1008-538: A Grammy Award but who did contribute to a winning recording. These certificates are known as Participation Certificates or Winners Certificates. Those eligible for a certificate can apply for one in the weeks after the Grammy ceremony. A special Grammy Award of merit is occasionally awarded to recognize "ongoing contributions and influence in the recording field". It has come to be known as the Grammy Legend Award and
1152-607: A blog post by the rapper Drake . The songs subsequently received coverage from various media outlets, including Pitchfork and The New York Times . In 2011, Tesfaye met music executives Wassim "Sal" Slaiby and Amir "Cash" Esmailian , with whom, along with Taylor, he founded the XO record label. On March 21, Tesfaye released his debut mixtape, House of Balloons , which featured production from Illangelo and Doc McKinney . The mixtape also included tracks produced by Rose, although he did not receive production credits. House of Balloons
1296-526: A compilation album comprising re-mixed and remastered versions of his 2011 mixtapes, and three additional tracks. The album debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 86,000 copies, and has received platinum certifications from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and double-platinum from Music Canada . It also earned Tesfaye a nomination for
1440-504: A dark R&B project after hearing him freestyle over an instrumental. After creating multiple songs and parting ways due to creative differences, Tesfaye was allowed to use the songs they made together under the condition that Rose received production credits. In December 2010, Tesfaye uploaded "What You Need", "Loft Music" and " The Morning " to YouTube under the username "xoxxxoooxo". His identity remained undisclosed initially. These songs gained attention online and were later acknowledged in
1584-542: A follow-up album to Dawn FM in 2022, telling his fans: "[I] wonder... did you know you're experiencing a new trilogy?" via Twitter . On January 8, 2024, he further teased an upcoming album, posting pictures of his last two albums and a question mark on his social media. On March 22, 2024, he appeared on the track " Young Metro " from Future and Metro Boomin 's collaborative album, We Don't Trust You as well as several tracks on Future and Metro Boomin's We Still Don't Trust You album. On July 17, 2024, Tesfaye announced
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#17328528091931728-416: A forbidden love story — the stuff of a toxic man's fantasy", and called it "regressive rather than transgressive". He received negative reviews for his acting, with critic Robert Daniels of The Playlist writing, "Tesfaye is also a terrible actor. He lacks the comfortability, the gravitas, charisma, and charm to increase the viability of Jocelyn being attracted to him. In most scenes, Tesfaye either hides under
1872-549: A greatest hits album since Fully Loaded: God's Country (2019). Tesfaye headlined the Super Bowl LV halftime show on February 7, 2021, becoming the first Canadian solo artist to headline the show. He reportedly spent US$ 7 million of his own money on the Super Bowl performance. Reviews of the performance were generally positive. The show resulted in a surge in streaming and downloads for Tesfaye's After Hours album as well as for
2016-460: A manner that preserves the integrity of the academy and their member community. Although registered media companies may submit entries, they have no vote. The eligibility period for the upcoming 66th Annual Grammy Awards is October 1, 2022 – September 15, 2023. The 2024 Grammy Awards , unveiled by Recording Academy chief Harvey Mason Jr., are set to be held on February 4, 2024. In many categories, certificates are presented to those ineligible for
2160-466: A natural tessitura within the upper fourth octave. Tesfaye often makes use of his head voice to build resonance to belt out strong high notes within the fifth octave. Tesfaye's vocals have a recognizable Ethiopian characteristic. Hannah Giogis of Pitchfork notes that "his trademark vibrato , the characteristically pained whine that pervades much of Tesfaye's music, draws from a long Ethiopian musical legacy of tortured pining. Imbuing our voices with
2304-482: A new peak of 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 6 years after its release, a remix of the song featuring Ariana Grande was released. The remix marked their fourth collaboration. In the Billboard Hot 100 issue dated March 11, 2023, the remix reached the top of the chart, becoming both artists' seventh number one hit. On February 27, 2023, in the wake of the remix's success, the Weeknd became the first artist to surpass 100 million monthly listeners on Spotify. On March 3, 2023,
2448-490: A one-night show in São Paulo, Brazil, set to take place on September 7, 2024. He announced the title of his upcoming sixth album, Hurry Up Tomorrow , three days prior to the concert. Tesfaye cites Michael Jackson , Prince , and R. Kelly as his main musical inspirations. He has attributed Jackson's music as key in spurring him to be a singer, referencing the lyrics to " Dirty Diana " as an example. His high-flying vocal style
2592-758: A pre-telecast "Premiere Ceremony" in the afternoon before the Grammy Awards telecast. On April 6, 2011, the Recording Academy announced a significant overhaul of many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The number of categories was cut from 109 to 78. The most substantial change was eliminating the distinction between male and female soloists and between collaborations and duo/groups in various genre fields (pop, rock, rhythm and blues [R&B], country, and rap). Additionally, several instrumental soloist categories were discontinued; recordings in these categories now fall under general categories for best solo performances. In
2736-481: A private online listening service. After nominees have been determined, final voting ballots are sent to NARAS voting members, who may then vote in the general field and cast ten votes in various genre categories spread to three of the eleven fields. Members are encouraged, but not required, to vote only in their fields of expertise. Ballots are tabulated secretly by the independent accounting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu . After vote tabulation, winners are announced at
2880-401: A question remained what to call them. One working title was the 'Eddie', to honor Thomas Edison , the inventor of the phonograph . Eventually, the name was chosen after a mail-in contest whereby approximately 300 contestants submitted the name 'Grammy', with the earliest postmark from contest winner Jay Danna of New Orleans, Louisiana, as an abbreviated reference to Emile Berliner 's invention,
3024-428: A second appearance on Saturday Night Live as the musical guest alongside actress Margot Robbie . During the show, he performed "Starboy" and " False Alarm ". On November 23, he released the short film M A N I A . Directed by Grant Singer, it featured excerpts from the album, including snippets from " All I Know " featuring Future , " Sidewalks " featuring Kendrick Lamar , " Secrets " and " Die for You ". Upon release,
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#17328528091933168-509: A snippet of new music on social media. He appeared on the cover of the September 2021 issue of GQ , marking the magazine's first global publication. Then, in a collaboration with NBC Sports and the 2020 Summer Olympics , Tesfaye announced his single " Take My Breath ", which was released on August 6. Later that month, he appeared on Kanye West 's tenth studio album Donda on the track " Hurricane ", which won Best Melodic Rap Performance at
3312-702: A songwriter, producer and a featured artist on the album's seventh single, " Crew Love ". He released his third mixtape, Echoes of Silence , on December 21. It was a longlisted nominee for the 2012 Polaris Music Prize . In April 2012, Tesfaye began performing at more shows, such as the Coachella Festival , and two sold-out shows at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City. He also performed at various European festivals, such as Primavera Sound in Spain and Portugal and
3456-564: A television music special in partnership with Amazon Prime Video . On March 20, the Weeknd played in an episode of the cartoon The Simpsons . On April 18, he headlined the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival for the second time, performing alongside Swedish House Mafia. On July 26, 2022, the Weeknd announced that he would host a haunted house at Universal Studios Florida and Hollywood , as part of Universal's Halloween Horror Nights hosted every Halloween. Tesfaye appeared on
3600-532: A total of 94 categories, will be presented on February 2, 2025. After over fifty years being broadcast on CBS , it was announced on October 30, 2024, that the Grammys would move to ABC , Disney+ and Hulu as part of a ten-year broadcast deal between the Recording Academy and The Walt Disney Company . Harry's House Midnights The Grammys had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in
3744-550: A weekend. He removed the last 'e' in 'weekend' to avoid trademark issues with the Canadian pop rock band the Weekend . He has also experienced homelessness and was incarcerated on several occasions during this time, which encouraged him to "smarten up, to focus". During this time, Tesfaye frequently engaged in drug use, including substances such as ketamine , cocaine , MDMA , magic mushrooms , and cough syrup , stating that drugs were
3888-522: A work is entered, review sessions are held that involve over 150 recording industry experts, to determine that the work has been entered in the correct category. The resulting lists of eligible entries are then circulated to voting members, each of whom may vote to nominate in the general fields ( Record of the Year , Album of the Year , Song of the Year , and Best New Artist ) and in up to nine out of 30 other fields on their ballots. The five recordings that earn
4032-730: Is a South Ethio-Semitic language, along with Gurage , Argobba , Harari , and others. Due to the social stratification of the time, the Cushitic Agaw adopted the South Ethio-Semitic language and eventually absorbed the Semitic population. Amharic thus developed with a Cushitic substratum and a Semitic superstratum . The northernmost South Ethio-Semitic speakers, or the proto-Amhara, remained in constant contact with their North Ethio-Semitic neighbors, evidenced by linguistic analysis and oral traditions. A 7th century southward shift of
4176-533: Is also fluent in French , as he attended a French immersion school . He was further educated at West Hill Collegiate Institute and Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute . At seventeen, Tesfaye dropped out of school and relocated to an apartment in the neighbourhood of Parkdale with two friends, one of whom is La Mar Taylor —his best friend and now creative director . Living a hedonistic lifestyle with his friends, Tesfaye adopted his stage name because he left home on
4320-796: Is an Ethiopian Semitic language , which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages . It is spoken as a first language by the Amharas , and also serves as a lingua franca for all other populations residing in major cities and towns in Ethiopia . The language serves as the official working language of the Ethiopian federal government, and is also the official or working language of several of Ethiopia's federal regions . As of 2020, it has over 33,700,000 mother-tongue speakers and more than 25,100,000 second language speakers in 2019, making
4464-571: Is an abugida , and the graphemes of the Amharic writing system are called fidäl . It is derived from a modification of the Ge'ez script . Each character represents a consonant+vowel sequence, but the basic shape of each character is determined by the consonant, which is modified for the vowel. Some consonant phonemes are written by more than one series of characters: / ʔ / , / s / , / tsʼ / , and / h / (the last one has four distinct letter forms). This
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4608-658: Is because these fidäl originally represented distinct sounds, but phonological changes merged them. The citation form for each series is the consonant+ ä form, i.e. the first column of the fidäl . The Amharic script is included in Unicode , and glyphs are included in fonts available with major operating systems. As in most other Ethiopian Semitic languages , gemination is contrastive in Amharic. That is, consonant length can distinguish words from one another; for example, alä 'he said', allä 'there is'; yǝmätall 'he hits', yǝmmättall 'he will be hit'. Gemination
4752-493: Is called an abugida ( አቡጊዳ ). The graphemes are called fidäl ( ፊደል ), which means "script", "alphabet", "letter", or "character". There is no universally agreed-upon Romanization of Amharic into Latin script . The Amharic examples in the sections below use one system that is common among linguists specializing in Ethiopian Semitic languages. Amharic has been the official working language of Ethiopia, language of
4896-661: Is categorized as R&B and dark wave . His next three albums, Beauty Behind the Madness , Starboy and After Hours , are considered R&B and pop; with Starboy utilizing heavy trap influences, and After Hours drawing on new wave and dream pop influences. Tesfaye's fifth studio album Dawn FM explores dance-pop and synth-pop genres. Amharic language Amharic ( / æ m ˈ h ær ɪ k / am- HARR -ik or / ɑː m ˈ h ɑːr ɪ k / ahm- HAR -ik ; native name : አማርኛ , romanized : Amarəñña , IPA: [amarɨɲːa] )
5040-463: Is generally categorized as alternative R&B , due to his contributions in broadening the genre's musical palette to incorporate indie and electronic styles. Mistry writes that he "will be obsequiously praised as the future of R&B music—because Tesfaye is a black singer, not because he's making quantifiable, canonical R&B." Tesfaye shared his thoughts on the primary label during an interview with Time in 2015, stating: "Alternative R&B
5184-519: Is in Africa.' ልጁ Lǝǧ-u the boy ተኝቷል täññǝtʷall. asleep is ልጁ ተኝቷል Lǝǧ-u täññǝtʷall. {the boy} {asleep is} 'The boy is asleep.' ( -u is a definite article. Lǝǧ is 'boy'. Lǝǧu is 'the boy') አየሩ Ayyäru the weather ደስ däss pleasant Grammy Award The Grammy Awards , stylized as GRAMMY , and often referred to as the Grammys , are awards presented by
5328-571: Is in my soul. It's not going anywhere. When I put out songs from House of Balloons in 2010, people said I made R&B cool again. I'm assuming that's when the label was created. I feel honored that a good part of today's music is inspired by it, consciously or subconsciously. The only way I could have done that was to be ambitious and grand." Tesfaye's first three mixtapes; House of Balloons , Thursday and Echoes of Silence , are alternative R&B projects that draw on dream pop, post-punk and trip hop , amongst others. His debut studio album Kiss Land
5472-469: Is mostly heard as the affricate sound [ t͡sʼ ]. The rhotic consonant is realized as a trill when geminated and a tap otherwise. The closed central unrounded vowel ⟨ə⟩ /ɨ/ and mid-central vowel ⟨ä⟩ /ə/ are generally fronted to [ ɪ ] and [ ɛ ], respectively, following palatal consonants , and generally retracted and rounded to [ ʊ ] and [ ɔ ], respectively, following labialized velar consonants . The Amharic script
5616-416: Is not indicated in Amharic orthography, but Amharic readers typically do not find this to be a problem. This property of the writing system is analogous to the vowels of Arabic and Hebrew or the tones of many Bantu languages , which are not normally indicated in writing. Ethiopian novelist Haddis Alemayehu , who was an advocate of Amharic orthography reform , indicated gemination in his novel Love to
5760-522: Is seen especially in After Hours and House of Balloons . Hermione Hoby of The Guardian characterizes Tesfaye's songs as "narcotised- slow jams " and delineates their message as "partying is an existential experience, sex is fraught with alienation, and everything registers as unreal and unsettling." Paul MacInnes of The Guardian stated that he views Tesfaye's three mixtapes as "a rough trajectory of party, after-party and hangover ." Anupa Mistry of
5904-775: The Billboard Music Awards . He was nominated for a record sixteen awards, and won ten, including Top Artist and Top Hot 100 Song . When accepting his awards, Tesfaye continued to tease new music by saying "the After Hours are done, and The Dawn is coming". On May 28, he performed the remix of "Save Your Tears" at the iHeartRadio Music Awards with Ariana Grande. On June 25, Tesfaye appeared on Doja Cat 's single " You Right " from her third studio album Planet Her . On July 22, he appeared on Belly's single " Better Believe " with Young Thug from his third studio album See You Next Wednesday . On August 2, 2021, Tesfaye released
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6048-502: The 2015 MTV Video Music Awards , Apple debuted a two-part promotional commercial featuring Tesfaye, which had a guest appearance from John Travolta . In July, Tesfaye headlined the inaugural FVDED in the Park festival in Surrey, British Columbia . On June 29, Tesfaye was featured on Meek Mill 's second studio album Dreams Worth More Than Money (2015), on the track "Pullin' Up". Beauty Behind
6192-404: The 2023 Cannes Film Festival out of competition, where it received significant controversy for its graphic depiction of onscreen nudity and sexual content. The series debuted to widespread negative reviews from critics. The Hollywood Reporter stated that the series confirms the allegations that "Instead of subtly skewering the misogynistic and predatory nature of the business, The Idol became
6336-545: The 64th Annual Grammy Awards . On October 4, 2021, during an episode of Memento Mori , Tesfaye revealed that his fifth studio album was complete and that he was waiting on a "couple characters that are key to the narrative." On October 18, Tesfaye announced that his upcoming tour, originally titled the After Hours Tour, would be held entirely in stadiums due to arena constraints and was scheduled to commence in July 2022. The tour
6480-506: The 66th Annual Grammy Awards , set to take place in 2024. Three new categories were announced, bringing the total number to 94, the highest since the peak of 109 in 2010. In addition, both Producer of the Year, Non-Classical and Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical , were moved to the General Field, the first time new categories had been added to this field since the concept of the Big Four
6624-608: The Crypto.com Arena (known as the Staples Center from 1999 to 2021) became the permanent home of the award ceremonies. The Grammy Museum was built across the street from the Crypto.com Arena in LA Live to preserve the history of the Grammy Awards. Embedded on the sidewalks on the museum streets are bronze disks, similar to the Hollywood Walk of Fame , to honor each year's top winners, Record of
6768-483: The Grammy Living Legend Award at different ceremonies. As of 2018, fourteen solo musicians and one band have received this award. The Grammy Salute to Industry Icons Award honors those who have made innovative contributions to the music industry. Recipients include: Before 1971, Grammy Award ceremonies were held in different locations on the same day. Originally New York City and Los Angeles were
6912-455: The HBO drama series The Idol , which was a critical failure. Its accompanying soundtrack saw commercial success. Tesfaye has sold over 75 million records, making him one of the world's best-selling artists . He has earned seven diamond-certifications from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for his singles, and is the first artist to simultaneously hold the top three spots on
7056-704: The Hard Summer Music Festival , and the Bumbershoot Festival. He announced The Madness Fall Tour , his first large-scale tour across the United States, which began in November, and concluded in December. The album was certified double platinum in the U.S., and sold 1.5 million copies worldwide. It was the most-streamed album in 2015, with over 60 million streams, and was ranked on multiple lists of albums of
7200-578: The Hot R&;B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. "Blinding Lights" became the most-streamed song in Spotify history , the best-performing song in the Billboard Hot 100's history and the longest-charting song by a solo artist in the chart's history. Tesfaye was listed by Time as one of the world's most influential people in 2020, and was dubbed the "world's most popular artist" by Guinness World Records in 2023. An advocate for racial equality and food security , he
7344-633: The Los Angeles Kings , Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Sparks to play an extended length of road games. With 32 Grammy Awards, Beyoncé is the artist with the most Grammy wins. U2 , with 22 Grammy Awards, holds the record for most awards won by a group. When Pearl Jam won a Grammy for the Best Hard Rock Performance in 1996, the band's lead singer Eddie Vedder commented on stage, "I don't know what this means. I don't think it means anything." In 2008, Glen Hansard , leader of
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#17328528091937488-522: The Sinai Peninsula into Asia . A later return movement of peoples from South Arabia would have introduced the Semitic languages to Ethiopia. Based on archaeological evidence, the presence of Semitic speakers in the territory date to some time before 500 BC. Linguistic analysis suggests the presence of Semitic languages in Ethiopia as early as 2000 BC. Levine indicates that by the end of that millennium,
7632-830: The Sound of 2013 poll award by BBC . On May 17, 2013, Tesfaye released the title track to his debut studio album, Kiss Land and announced the album's release date of September 10. Upon its release, the album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with 96,000 copies and received generally positive reviews from music critics. Tesfaye further promoted the album with a fall tour that occurred in North America and England in September to November 2013. Between November 6 and 13, he served as an opening act for Justin Timberlake during The 20/20 Experience World Tour . He also contributed two songs to
7776-479: The Toronto Standard observes throughout his mixtapes a "cast of supine, stoned zombie-women... whose legs willingly part after being plied with substances and who morph into threats only when [he is] coming down and feeling vulnerable." Tesfaye has stated that by singing vulgar, ignorant lyrics in an elegant, sexy way, he is "paying homage to R Kelly, and even Prince to a certain extent." Tesfaye often sings in
7920-716: The Wireless Festival in the United Kingdom. In September, Tesfaye signed with Republic Records ; XO was assumed as a subsidiary label . That same month, he embarked on his first concert tour, the Fall Tour, which included his own headlining shows and some opening shows for the English band Florence and the Machine . The tour was performed in North America in September to November 2012. On November 13, 2012, Tesfaye released Trilogy ,
8064-530: The debut album from Wu-Tang Clan . The nomination review committees would be disbanded in 2021 following criticism of the lack of nominations for The Weeknd 's album After Hours . At the 38th Annual Grammy Awards , artist Mariah Carey was nominated for six awards for her album Daydream , including Album of the Year and Record of the Year for her single " One Sweet Day ". Although critics believed Carey would be "cleaning up" that year, Carey ultimately lost in all her nominated categories that night, much to
8208-599: The four major annual American entertainment awards with the Academy Awards (for films), the Emmy Awards (for television), and the Tony Awards (for theater). The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4, 1959, to honor the musical accomplishments of performers for the year 1958. After the 2011 ceremony, the Recording Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 67th Annual Grammy Awards , featuring
8352-657: The gramophone . Grammys were first awarded for achievements in 1958. The first award ceremony was held simultaneously in two locations on May 4, 1959, the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, and the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City, New York, with 28 Grammys awarded. The number of awards given grew, at one time reaching over 100, and fluctuated over the years with categories added and removed. The second Grammy Awards , also held in 1959,
8496-413: The rock field, the hard rock and metal album categories were combined. The Best Rock Instrumental Performance category was also eliminated. In R&B , the distinction between best contemporary R&B album and other R&B albums has been eliminated, consolidated into one Best R&B Album category. In rap , the categories for best rap soloist and best rap duo or group have been merged into
8640-568: The soundtrack for the 2013 film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire , "Devil May Cry" and the soundtrack's second single, " Elastic Heart " with Sia and Diplo . In February 2014, Tesfaye released a remix of " Drunk in Love " from Beyoncé 's eponymous studio album , and Ty Dolla Sign 's " Or Nah ". He announced the King of the Fall Tour in June 2014, a 4-city tour of North America between September and October and
8784-504: The total number of speakers over 58,800,000. Amharic is the largest, most widely spoken language in Ethiopia, and the second most spoken mother-tongue in Ethiopia (after Oromo ). Amharic is also the second most widely spoken Semitic language in the world (after Arabic ). Amharic is written left-to-right using a system that grew out of the Geʽez script . The segmental writing system in which consonant-vowel sequences are written as units
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#17328528091938928-648: The '80s – Siouxsie and the Banshees , Cocteau Twins – play such a huge role in my sound." Tesfaye has named Deftones as one of his influences during the making of House of Balloons , Thursday and Echoes of Silence . He has also cited Lana Del Rey , David Bowie , the Smiths , Bad Brains , Talking Heads , DeBarge , 50 Cent , Wu-Tang Clan , and Eminem as influences and inspirations. When Daft Punk announced their split in 2021, Tesfaye praised them during an interview with Variety , saying: "Those guys are one of
9072-576: The 1950s. As recording executives on the Walk of Fame committee compiled a list of significant recording industry people who might qualify for a Walk of Fame star, they realized that many leading people in their business would not earn a star on Hollywood Boulevard . They determined to rectify this by creating awards given by their industry similar to the Oscars and the Emmys . After deciding to go forward with such awards,
9216-447: The Banshees and Aaliyah . Tesfaye worked mostly with producers Illangelo and Doc McKinney , whom Ian Cohen of Pitchfork credits with developing "a state-of-the-art R&B template" with the artist. In concert, Tesfaye reappropriates his digitized productions with a suite -like arena rock aesthetic. His emotional, plaintive lyrics often express feelings of hurt and deal with subject matter such as sex, drugs, and partying; this
9360-476: The Best New Artist award in 2009 and her other three awards in 2012 and 2017. At age 18, Eilish is the youngest artist to have won all four awards. As of 2024, an additional two awards were added to the "General Field". Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres and for other contributions such as artwork and video. Special awards are also given for longer-lasting contributions to
9504-705: The COVID-19 Delta cron hybrid variant. The ceremony was also moved from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles to the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas due to the former having scheduling conflicts with sports games and concerts nearly every night through mid-April. The gold-plated trophies, each depicting a gilded gramophone , are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado . In 1990,
9648-489: The Centric Award at the BET Awards , Tesfaye performed "Earned It" with Alicia Keys . On June 8, he released the song " Can't Feel My Face " as the album's third single. The track was previously leaked in May, but was released as a single following a performance by Tesfaye at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference . The single debuted at number twenty-four on the Billboard Hot 100, and peaked at number one, making it Tesfaye's third top 10 hit and his first number-one song in
9792-408: The Ethiopianist tradition they are often transcribed with a dot below the letter. The notation of central vowels in the Ethiopianist tradition is shown in angled brackets. The voiced bilabial plosive /b/ is phonetically realized as a voiced labial approximant [β̞] medially between sonorants in non- geminated form. The fricative ejective / sʼ / is heard as a fricative ejective [ sʼ ], but
9936-425: The Fall Tour . The tour was in support of his third studio album Starboy (2016) and concluded on December 14, 2017. He visited the continents Europa, North- and South America and Oceania. On February 15, 2017, Tesfaye was featured on Nav 's commercial debut single " Some Way ", which also served as the lead single from his self-titled mixtape . On February 24, he appeared on Future's sixth studio album Hndrxx , on
10080-541: The Grammy Awards. The recording with the most votes in a category wins, and it is possible to have a tie (in which case the two [or more] nominees who tie are considered winners). Winners are presented with a Grammy Award; those who do not win receive a medal for their nomination. In both voting rounds, Academy members are required to vote solely based on quality, without consideration for sales, chart performance, personal friendships, regional preferences or company loyalty. Gifts may not be accepted. Members are urged to vote in
10224-471: The Grave by placing a dot above the characters whose consonants were geminated, but this practice is rare. Punctuation includes the following: One may construct simple Amharic sentences by using a subject and a predicate . Here are a few simple sentences: ኢትዮጵያ ʾItyop̣p̣ya Ethiopia አፍሪካ ʾAfrika Africa ውስጥ wǝsṭ in ናት nat is ኢትዮጵያ አፍሪካ ውስጥ ናት ʾItyop̣p̣ya ʾAfrika wǝsṭ nat {Ethiopia} {Africa} {in} {is} 'Ethiopia
10368-452: The Irish rock group The Frames , stated that the Grammys represent something outside of the real world of music "that's fully industry based". He said he was not particularly interested in attending that year's ceremony, even though he had been nominated for two awards. Maynard James Keenan , lead singer of progressive rock band Tool , did not attend the Grammy Awards ceremony to receive one of
10512-470: The Madness (2015) and Starboy (2016), both of which debuted atop the US Billboard 200 . The former yielded his first two US Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles, " Can't Feel My Face " and " The Hills ", while Starboy spawned two more: its title track (featuring Daft Punk ), and after a 2023 remix with Ariana Grande , " Die for You ". He returned to alternative R&B for his debut extended play , My Dear Melancholy (2018), which included
10656-449: The Madness , Tesfaye's second studio album, was released on August 28, 2015, and debuted atop the Billboard 200, earning 412,000 album-equivalent units in its first week. It reached the top 10 in over ten countries and reached number one in Canada, Australia, Norway, and the United Kingdom. The album was promoted by Tesfaye headlining various summer music festivals, including Lollapalooza ,
10800-538: The Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry . They are regarded by many as the most prestigious and significant awards in the music industry worldwide. They were originally called the Gramophone Awards , as the trophy depicts a gilded gramophone . The Grammys are the first of the Big Three networks ' major music awards held annually, and are considered one of
10944-451: The Recording Academy and that voting members are active creative professionals involved in the recording process, such as performers, songwriters, producers, and engineers. Nomination review committees, composed of anonymous industry figures, were established following the 37th Grammy Awards , which attracted criticism for the slate of Album of the Year nominations. The winner, Tony Bennett 's live album MTV Unplugged , competed against
11088-586: The Recording Academy for introducing a policy of charging nominees $ 1200 for a plus one, saying the policy "makes it ever more obvious who is valued, and more specifically what (that would be lots of money, for the folks in the back)." A Billboard article clarified that the new policy was a tiered system, ranging from $ 375 to $ 2000 for a ticket to attend the pre-telecast ceremony. The Grammys also have been criticized for snubbing awards to some nominated artists. The organization's awards journey states that nominees and winners are determined solely by voting members of
11232-656: The South Korean girl group Blackpink . Later in June he received an invitation from the Academy to become a member. On July 21, Tesfaye appeared on Travis Scott's lead single " K-pop " from his fourth studio album Utopia , and later appeared on another track on Scott's album, " Circus Maximus ". Tesfaye appeared on Diddy 's single " Another One of Me " on September 15, which he called his "final feature", despite releasing multiple collaborations with Metro Boomin and Future in 2024. On December 2, 2023, Fortnite announced that
11376-511: The US top-ten single " Call Out My Name ". He explored the dream-pop and new wave genres with his fourth studio album, After Hours (2020), which spawned the record-setting single, " Blinding Lights ", and two other US number-one singles: " Heartless " and " Save Your Tears ". Tesfaye began exploring dance-pop , leading to his fifth album, Dawn FM (2022), which included the US top-ten single, " Take My Breath ". In 2023, he co-created and starred in
11520-427: The United States. The song was nominated for Record of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards. He occupied all three slots on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart simultaneously with the aforementioned singles, becoming the first artist in history to accomplish this. He was also unveiled as one of the musical faces of the streaming service Apple Music, alongside Drake. During
11664-499: The Weeknd released his first live album, titled Live at SoFi Stadium . It featured recordings from his HBO concert film of the same name, showcasing the last concert of the North American leg of his After Hours til Dawn Tour at SoFi Stadium . He subsequently featured on four songs — "Artificial Intelligence," "Defame Moi," "More Coke!!," and "Emotionless" — from Mike Dean 's album 4:23 , released on April 29, 2023. In May 2023,
11808-416: The Weeknd stated that he was intending to retire the moniker of "the Weeknd" in favor of performing under his birth name, or adopting a new pseudonym altogether. He explained that his upcoming album would most likely serve as his "final hurrah" under the name. The Weeknd co-created the HBO drama series The Idol with Sam Levinson , and stars in the show alongside Lily-Rose Depp . The series premiered at
11952-507: The Weeknd would be featured as the headlining artist for its Fortnite Festival gamemode and outfits of him would become available to play with on December 9. His outfits have three different variants of himself; the red suit seen throughout the promotional material for After Hours , the outfit from his 2022 Coachella performance, and two of the costumes that he was seen wearing during the After Hours til Dawn Tour. Tesfaye first teased news of
12096-453: The Year, Best New Artist, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year. Since 2000, the Grammy Awards have taken place outside of Los Angeles only three times. New York City 's Madison Square Garden hosted the awards in 2003 and in 2018 , while the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas hosted in 2022 . The annual awards ceremony at the Crypto.com Arena requires the local sports teams such as
12240-674: The album and his EP My Dear Melancholy , he began his sixth concert tour, the Weeknd Asia Tour , a six-show tour of Asia during November and December. On January 11, 2019, Tesfaye was featured on Gesaffelstein 's song " Lost in the Fire ", the second single from his second studio album Hyperion . On April 18, he released " Power Is Power " with SZA and Travis Scott, the lead single from the Game of Thrones -inspired soundtrack . On November 24, 2019, Tesfaye teased his single " Blinding Lights " through
12384-478: The album debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 with 348,000 units, making it Tesfaye's second consecutive number-one album. As of January 2019, the album is certified triple platinum by the RIAA. The album won Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards , making it Tesfaye's second win in the category. On February 17, 2017, the Weeknd began his fifth concert tour, called Starboy: Legend of
12528-543: The album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with 148,000 units, marking Tesfaye's eighth top ten entry and his second non-consecutive album to debut at number two. He also broke the record for the most simultaneous entries for a male soloist on the Billboard Global 200 , with twenty-four songs on the chart. In addition to "Take My Breath", Dawn FM was supported by the singles " Sacrifice " and " Out of Time ". February 26, Tesfaye premiered The Dawn FM Experience ,
12672-422: The album's title track , which featured the duo on September 21. The song debuted at number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, and peaked at number one, making it Tesfaye's third number-one single. As of March 2023, the song is certified Diamond by the RIAA. Their second collaboration, " I Feel It Coming " was released on November 24. The single peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. On October 1, Tesfaye made
12816-429: The album's first charting week, Tesfaye also became the first artist to lead the Billboard 200, Billboard Hot 100, Billboard Artist 100 , Hot 100 Songwriters and Hot 100 Producers charts simultaneously, and repeated his lead the following week. The deluxe version of After Hours was released on March 29, 2020, and contained the tracks "Nothing Compares", "Missed You" and "Final Lullaby". On August 7, 2020, Tesfaye
12960-449: The alphabet used for writing the Geʽez language. There are 34 basic characters, each of which has seven forms depending on which vowel is to be pronounced in the syllable. There are also 49 "wa" letters, which form compound sounds involving "w." All together, the alphabet has some 280 letters. Until 2020 Amharic was the sole official language of Ethiopia. The 2007 census reported that Amharic
13104-525: The band's awards, explaining that: I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself. That's basically what it's all about. The Grammys have also been criticized for generally awarding or nominating more commercially successful albums rather than critically successful ones. In 1991, Sinéad O'Connor became
13248-527: The center of gravity of the Kingdom of Aksum and the ensuing integration and Christianization of the proto-Amhara also resulted in a high prevalence of Geʽez sourced lexicon in Amharic. Some time after the 9th century AD, Amharic diverged from its closest relative, Argobba , probably due to religious differences as the Argobba adopted Islam. In 1983, Lionel Bender proposed that Amharic may have been constructed as
13392-493: The core inhabitants of Greater Ethiopia would have consisted of dark-skinned agropastoralists speaking Afro-Asiatic languages of the Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic branches. Other scholars such as Messay Kebede and Daniel E. Alemu argue that migration across the Red Sea was defined by reciprocal exchange, if it even occurred at all, and that Ethio-Semitic-speaking ethnic groups should not be characterized as foreign invaders. Amharic
13536-566: The courts, the language of trade and everyday communications and of the military since the late 12th century. The Amhara nobles supported the Zagwe prince Lalibela in his power struggle against his brothers which led him to make Amharic Lessana Negus as well as fill the Amhara nobles in the top positions of his Kingdom. The appellation of "language of the king" ( Ge'ez : ልሳነ ነጋሢ ; "Lǝssanä nägaśi," Amharic : የነጋሢ ቋንቋ "Yä-nägaśi qʷanqʷa") and its use in
13680-509: The cover of dim lighting, obtrusive coverage, or re-recorded dialogue dubbed into several scenes." On August 28, 2023, HBO announced it had cancelled The Idol after one season. On June 8, 2023, the Weeknd announced series of EPs featuring music from The Idol . Originally intended as a soundtrack album , each EP was released following the premiere of each episode of the show, which featured collaborations with Future , Playboi Carti , Madonna , Lil Baby , Lily-Rose Depp , and Jennie from
13824-473: The exclusion of Contemporary Christian Music (CCM). Therefore, the field and some categories were renamed as Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music. Since 2012, small adjustments have been made to lists of categories and genre fields. The number of categories has risen from 78 in 2012 to 84 since 2017. In 2020, amid the George Floyd protests , several urban, rap, and Latin music categories were renamed. In 2022,
13968-463: The first musician to refuse a Grammy, boycotting the ceremony after being nominated for Record of the Year , Best Female Pop Vocal Performance , and Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance . O'Connor would go on to win the latter award. She said her reasoning came from the Grammys' extreme commercialism. In 2024, Rhiannon Giddens described the financial strain of attending the ceremony for middle and working class musicians. She criticized
14112-446: The first song in the chart's history to hold a spot in the top ten for an entire year. It also became the longest charting song by a solo artist on the Hot 100 at 90 weeks, ending the week of September 11, 2021. On November 23, 2021, "Blinding Lights" was ranked as the #1 Greatest Hot 100 Hit of All Time by Billboard , surpassing " The Twist " by Chubby Checker . On January 1, 2023, it became
14256-880: The first time. He appeared in multiple festivals throughout 2018 to support the EP, most notably the Mawazine Festival in Morocco, Lollapalooza in both Chicago and Berlin, and a post-race concert at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix . On June 6, 2018, Tesfaye announced his new Apple Music 1 radio show Memento Mori . The first episode was released two days later. He would later feature on two tracks from Travis Scott's third studio album, Astroworld , which were "Skeletons" and " Wake Up " on August 3, 2018. On November 21, he released his first greatest hits album The Weeknd in Japan . In support of
14400-684: The host cities. Chicago joined as a host city in 1962 and Nashville became a fourth location in 1965. The 1971 ceremony at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles was the first to take place in one location. In 1972, the ceremony was then moved to Madison Square Garden 's Felt Forum in New York City, then moved in 1973 to Nashville's Tennessee Theatre . From 1974 to 2003, the Grammys were held in various venues in New York City and Los Angeles, including New York's Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall ; and Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium , Staples Center and Hollywood Palladium. In 2000,
14544-489: The live classical album The Three Tenors in Concert 1994 , Seal 's second eponymous album , and the twelfth albums from Bonnie Raitt and Eric Clapton , both longtime musical mainstays. Not nominated that year were several albums that would later be recognized as classics, including Nas 's debut album Illmatic , Oasis 's debut album Definitely Maybe , Hole 's album Live Through This , Jeff Buckley 's Grace , and
14688-439: The most streamed song on Spotify with 3.3 billion streams. On February 19, 2020, Tesfaye revealed that his fourth studio album would be titled After Hours , and would be released on March 20. He also released the album's title track as a promotional single. On March 7, he made his third appearance as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live , alongside actor Daniel Craig . On the show, he performed "Blinding Lights" and debuted
14832-527: The most votes in each category become the nominees, while in some categories (craft and specialized categories) review committees determine the final five nominees. There may be over five nominees if a tie occurs in the nomination process. Although members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences generally are invited to screenings or are sent DVDs of films nominated for Oscars, NARAS members do not receive nominated recordings, but instead receive access to
14976-463: The music industry. Because of the large number of award categories (94 as of 2024), and a desire to feature several performances by various artists, only awards with the most popular interest – typically about 10 to 12, including the four general field categories and one or two categories in the most popular music genres (i.e., pop, rock, country, and rap) – are presented directly at the televised award ceremony. Most other Grammy trophies are presented in
15120-426: The mystery surrounding his identity. He signed with Republic Records to reissue the mixtapes into the compilation album Trilogy (2012), and release his debut studio album, Kiss Land (2013) the following year. After a string of collaborations and film soundtrack contributions from 2013 and 2014, Tesfaye transitioned from alternative R&B to a pop sound with his second and third studio albums, Beauty Behind
15264-477: The new Best Rap Performance category. The roots category had the most eliminations. Up through 2011, there were separate categories for regional American music forms, such as Hawaiian, Native American, and Zydeco/Cajun music. A consistently low number of entries in these categories led the Recording Academy to combine these music variations into a new Best Regional Roots Music Album , including polka , which had lost its category in 2009. In same-genre fields,
15408-451: The number of awards was increased from 86 to 91. Performance categories were added for the Americana and alternative music genres alongside new categories for video game score and spoken word poetry albums. A songwriter category (non-classical) and a song for social change category were also added and several categories were adjusted slightly. In 2023, several key changed were announced for
15552-475: The number of geographically distinct Cushitic languages that have influenced Amharic at different points in time (e.g. Oromo influence beginning in the 16th century) support a natural evolution of Amharic from a Proto-Ethio-Semitic language with considerable Cushitic influences (similar to Gurage, Tigrinya, etc.). The Amharic ejective consonants correspond to the Proto-Semitic " emphatic consonants ." In
15696-687: The original Grammy design was reworked, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, making the trophy bigger and grander. Billings developed Grammium, a zinc alloy which they trademarked. Trophies engraved with each recipient's name are not available until after the award announcements, so "stunt" trophies are re-used each year for the ceremony broadcast. By February 2009, some 7,578 Grammy trophies had been awarded. The "General Field" are four awards which are not restricted by music genre. To date, three artists have won all four awards, two won all four at once: Christopher Cross (1981) and Billie Eilish (2020). Adele won
15840-559: The past" and out of touch with "new media" and trends among music listeners such as music sharing , stating: The major nominations for the 54th annual awards clearly show that the recording academy has been working overtime to be all-inclusive, but more significantly, they also reveal a deep chasm between its goals and the listening habits of the general population...The focus is still on the old music industry model of cash-cow hits, major label investments and commercial radio... In an article for Time , journalist Touré also responded to
15984-504: The project were teased and leaked. The EP debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 169,000 units, making it Tesfaye's third consecutive number-one album and the shortest album, by track count, to top the chart in eight years. On April 6, Tesfaye released the EP's lead single " Call Out My Name ", which peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. On April 13, he headlined the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival for
16128-633: The reasons I make music, so I can't even compare them to other people..." Tesfaye's songs are "built around a fogged, crepuscular production", and feature slow tempos , rumbling bass, and forlorn echoes. His music incorporates samples that are unconventional in R&;B production, including punk , shoegaze , dream pop and alternative rock . Marc Hogan of Spin says that Tesfaye's samples tend "to draw from rock critic-approved sources, though generally ones that already share elements of his sexual menace", sampling artists such as Beach House , Siouxsie and
16272-484: The remix of Maluma 's " Hawái ", was nominated for Best Urban Fusion/Performance at the 22nd Annual Latin Grammy Awards . On December 10, he performed at iHeartRadio 's Jingle Ball . On February 5, 2021, Tesfaye released his second greatest hits album The Highlights . The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, making it Tesfaye's highest charting compilation album and the biggest first week debut for
16416-612: The royal court are otherwise traced to the Amhara Emperor Yekuno Amlak . It is one of the official languages of Ethiopia , together with other regions like Oromo , Somali , Afar , and Tigrinya . Amharic is an Afro-Asiatic language of the Southwest Semitic group and is related to Geʽez , or Ethiopic, the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox church; Amharic is written in a slightly modified form of
16560-591: The same month. When asked about a new album during an interview with Variety , he explained that "if the last record is the After Hours of the night, then The Dawn is coming". On May 11, Tesfaye performed "Save Your Tears" at the Brit Awards . He also accepted his first Brit Award for International Male Solo Artist , which was presented to him by former first lady of the United States Michelle Obama . On May 24, Tesfaye performed "Save Your Tears" at
16704-431: The second single from Beauty Behind the Madness , " The Hills ". The single debuted at number twenty on the Billboard Hot 100, and peaked at number one, becoming Tesfaye's second number-one single, following " Can't Feel My Face ", which had reached the number one position before it. In June 2019, "The Hills" was certified diamond by the RIAA, marking Tesfaye's first diamond-certified record. In June 2015, after winning
16848-425: The seven other songs he performed. The halftime show earned three nominations at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards : Outstanding Variety Special (Live) , Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Special , and Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Special . Over 2021, Tesfaye reissued his three mixtapes in its authentic form with the original mixes and samples to celebrate
16992-460: The shaky pain of loss—romantic or otherwise—is a hallmark of Ethiopian musical tradition. Tesfaye, with his staccato wails and aching nostalgia, is a young, North American addition to a dynasty of melodramatic Ethiopian singers." In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked the Weeknd at number 110 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. Tesfaye's discography spans pop , R&B , hip hop , dance , alternative and new wave genres. His work
17136-420: The shock of critics and Carey herself. In 2011, Los Angeles Times journalist Randall Roberts criticized the exclusion of Kanye West 's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy from Album of the Year nominations for the 54th Grammy Awards . He described West's album as "the most critically acclaimed album of the year, a career-defining record". Roberts went on to criticize the Grammy Awards for being "mired in
17280-464: The show's musical guest. This was his first performance on the show as a solo artist, after appearing with Ariana Grande to perform "Love Me Harder". In November, he began his debut arena tour, The Madness Fall Tour , which included shows at Toronto's Air Canada Centre and New York City's Madison Square Garden . On December 18, Tesfaye was featured on Belly 's single " Might Not " from his eighth mixtape Up For Days . On February 14, 2016, Tesfaye
17424-521: The snub and expressed general displeasure with the awards, stating "I don't pretend to understand the Grammys. I have never been able to discern a consistent logic around who gets nominated or who gets statues. I comprehend the particular logic of the Oscars, but not the big awards for music. My normal state of confusion around what drives Grammy decisions was exponentialized this week when, to the shock of many, Kanye's masterpiece My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
17568-570: The song " Comin Out Strong ". On April 19, Tesfaye appeared on the title track and second single from Lana Del Rey 's fifth studio album . On August 15, he was featured on French Montana 's track " A Lie ", the third single from his second studio album Jungle Rules . He then appeared on the Virgil Abloh -directed music video for Lil Uzi Vert 's " XO Tour Llif3 " alongside Nav. He was later featured on Lil Uzi Vert's debut album Luv Is Rage 2 on
17712-421: The song " Creepin' " from Metro Boomin's album, Heroes & Villains , on December 2, 2022. His song " Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength) ," made for the film Avatar: The Way of Water ' s official soundtrack, was released on December 16, 2022. On February 24, 2023, following months-long renewed interest in and virality of the Weeknd's 2016 song "Die for You," which began charting in 2022 and reached
17856-423: The song " Earned It " from the soundtrack for Fifty Shades of Grey (2015). The single, which peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, earned Tesfaye his first Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song . The song won Best R&B Performance and was nominated for Best R&B Song and Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards . On May 27, 2015, Tesfaye released
18000-642: The tenth anniversary of their release, with House of Balloons coming first in March 2021. Thursday ' s reissue followed in August 2021, and in December, Echoes of Silence was reissued. On April 23, Tesfaye released a remix of " Save Your Tears " with Ariana Grande, marking their third collaboration. The remix launched the song to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 on the chart dated May 8, 2021, becoming both artists' sixth number one hit. He later began to tease new music in
18144-477: The track " 6 Inch ". On August 26, Tesfaye was featured on Cashmere Cat 's single " Wild Love " with Francis and the Lights , which served as the lead single from Cashmere Cat's debut studio album 9 (2017). In September 2016, Tesfaye announced that his third studio album, Starboy , would be released on November 25, and included collaborations with now-disbanded French electronic music duo Daft Punk . He released
18288-400: The track " Scared to Live ". Tesfaye released the album's third single " In Your Eyes " on March 24. The track peaked at number sixteen on the Billboard Hot 100. Upon release, After Hours debuted atop the Billboard 200, earning 444,000 units, marking Tesfaye's fourth consecutive number-one album. It became the most streamed R&B album of all-time, surpassing Tesfaye's own Starboy . In
18432-449: The track "UnFazed" and on Gucci Mane 's eleventh studio album Mr. Davis on the track " Curve ". On February 2, 2018, Tesfaye contributed to the soundtrack for Black Panther on the song " Pray for Me " with Kendrick Lamar. The track served as the third single from the soundtrack, and peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100. On March 30, 2018, Tesfaye released his debut extended play My Dear Melancholy , after news of
18576-428: The traditional and contemporary blues categories and the traditional and contemporary folk categories each were consolidated into one per genre due to the number of entries and the challenges in distinguishing between contemporary and traditional blues and folk songs. In the world music field, the traditional and contemporary categories also were merged. In the classical field, its main category Best Classical Album ,
18720-549: The world that has been released either in Ibero-America , the Iberian Peninsula , or the United States. The 63rd Annual Grammy Awards were postponed from its original January 31, 2021, date to March 14, 2021, due to the music industry impact of COVID-19 pandemic . The 64th Annual Grammy Awards were also postponed from its original January 31, 2022, date to April 3, 2022, due to health and safety concerns related to
18864-441: The year. The three singles that preceded the album were certified platinum in the United States. The album won Best Urban Contemporary Album and was nominated for Album of the Year at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards. On September 4, 2015, Tesfaye was featured on Travis Scott 's debut album Rodeo , on the track "Pray 4 Love". On October 10, Tesfaye appeared on Saturday Night Live alongside actress Amy Schumer , performing as
19008-633: Was appointed a World Food Programme Goodwill Ambassador in 2021. His accolades include four Grammy Awards , 20 Billboard Music Awards , 22 Juno Awards , six American Music Awards , three MTV Video Music Awards , a Latin Grammy Award and nominations for an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award . Abel Makkonen Tesfaye was born on February 16, 1990, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The only child of Ethiopian Amhara immigrants Makkonen Tesfaye and Samrawit Hailu, who separated shortly after his birth, he
19152-496: Was discontinued because most recipients in the category had also won in other classical categories for the same album. Classical recordings are now eligible for the main Album of the Year category. A few minor name changes were also made to better reflect the nature of the separate categories. The Recording Academy determined that the word "gospel" in the gospel genre field tends to connote images and sounds of traditional soul gospel to
19296-532: Was established. The total number of fields was consolidated from 26 to 11 to ensure that all voting members would be able to exercise their allocated ten genre votes, as some members were prevented from doing so previously due to some fields only containing one category. Members of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), both media companies and individuals, may nominate recordings for consideration. Entries are made and submitted online. When
19440-434: Was featured on Kanye West 's seventh studio album The Life of Pablo on the track " FML ". It marked their second collaboration, with West previously writing and producing on Tesfaye's track " Tell Your Friends " from Beauty Behind the Madness . On March 1, Tesfaye was featured on Future 's single " Low Life " from his fourth studio album Evol . On April 23, he was featured on Beyoncé's sixth studio album Lemonade on
19584-466: Was featured on Rosalía 's single " La Fama " from her third studio album Motomami . On December 16, Tesfaye was featured on FKA Twigs ' single " Tears in the Club " from her debut mixtape Caprisongs . The next day, on December 17, he was featured on Aaliyah 's single " Poison " from her posthumous album Unstoppable . Tesfaye released his fifth studio album Dawn FM on January 7, 2022. Upon release,
19728-610: Was featured on the late Juice Wrld 's single " Smile " from his first posthumous album Legends Never Die . On August 28, he was featured on Calvin Harris ' single " Over Now ". On October 30, Tesfaye appeared on Ariana Grande's song " Off the Table " from her sixth studio album Positions . On the same day, he appeared on Oneohtrix Point Never 's track "No Nightmares" from his ninth studio album Magic Oneohtrix Point Never , which he also executive produced with OPN. On November 5, he appeared on
19872-499: Was influenced by Ethiopian singers such as Aster Aweke . He grew up listening to a variety of music genres, including soul , hip hop , funk , indie rock , and post-punk . Tesfaye is heavily influenced by 1980s music , and credits the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) for "opening my eyes" to the music of that era. "I've always had an admiration for the era before I was born", he said in an interview for Billboard . "You can hear it as far back as my first mixtape that
20016-837: Was named as one of the ten shortlisted nominees for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize . Tesfaye started working with Drake in May 2011, eventually earning a spot at the latter's OVO Fest on July 31. In July 2011, Tesfaye held his first live performance at the Mod Club Theatre in Toronto. He also participated in concerts hosted by the Black Student Association at the University of Toronto . On August 18, Tesfaye released his second mixtape, Thursday , which garnered usually positive reviews. Tesfaye contributed to four songs on Drake's second studio album, Take Care , released on November 15, as
20160-553: Was raised in the suburb of Scarborough by his mother and grandmother. Tesfaye's patronymic is spelled "Makkonen" instead of the traditional Ethiopian name " Makonnen ". The similarity with the Finnish surname Makkonen is pure coincidence. The spelling of Tesfaye's patronymic might be the result of a typographic error or a new form of the traditional name. Tesfaye is proficient in Amharic , his native language acquired from his grandmother, and
20304-408: Was renamed as the After Hours til Dawn Tour , and would incorporate elements from his fourth and fifth studio albums. On October 22, 2021, Tesfaye appeared on Swedish House Mafia 's single " Moth to a Flame " from their debut studio album Paradise Again . On November 5, he appeared on Post Malone 's single " One Right Now " from his fourth studio album Twelve Carat Toothache . On November 11, he
20448-467: Was spoken by 21.6 million native speakers in Ethiopia. More recent sources state the number of first-language speakers in 2018 as nearly 32 million, with another 25 million second-language speakers in Ethiopia. Additionally, 3 million emigrants outside of Ethiopia speak the language. Most of the Ethiopian Jewish communities in Ethiopia and Israel speak Amharic. Furthermore, Amharic is considered
20592-559: Was supported by Schoolboy Q and Jhené Aiko . In promotion of the tour, he released the songs " King of the Fall " and " Often " in July of that year. On August 25, Tesfaye collaborated with Ariana Grande on the song " Love Me Harder " from Grande's second studio album My Everything . It was later released on September 30 as the fourth single from the album, and peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 . On December 23, Tesfaye released
20736-648: Was the first ceremony to be televised, but the ceremony was not aired live until the 13th Annual Grammy Awards in 1971. The concept of a separate Grammy Awards for Latin music recorded in Spanish or Portuguese began in 1989, as it was deemed too large to fit on the regular Grammys ceremony. The Recording Academy then established the Latin Recording Academy in 1997, and the separate Latin Grammy Awards were first held in 2000. The Latin Grammys honor works recorded in Spanish or Portuguese from anywhere around
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