Where did The Weeknd go to college and high school? Did The Weeknd go to film school?

Abel Makkonen Tesfaye also known as Weeknd was born in Toronto, Ontario on February 16, 1990.

He is the only child of Ethiopian immigrants Makkonen Tesfaye and Samrawit Hailu, who divorced soon after he was born.

His mother and grandmother raised him in the Scarborough neighborhood. Weeknd was brought up as an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian. In 2020, when asked if he was still religious, he told Variety, “I dunno…everything is a test, and if you are religious or spiritual, you have to go through things.”

Where did The Weeknd go to college and high school? Did The Weeknd go to film school?

Amharic is his native language, which he learned from his grandmother.  He later improved his French skills by attending a French immersion school.

He went on to receive his secondary education at West Hill Collegiate Institute and Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute.

Weeknd dropped out of school at the age of 17 and moved to Parkdale with two friends, including his best friend and now creative director La Mar Taylor.

He has also been homeless and incarcerated on several occasions during this time, which has motivated him to “smarten up and focus.”

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