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The Weeknd

Abel Tesfaye known as the weeknd. Beauty Behind the Madness was released in August 28, 2015, an album that have brought popularity and several awards to the famous canadian singer. The weeknd was born february 16,1990. He was raised by his grandmother who always took care of him most of his young life. Dropping out of high school at the age of 17 and having a difficult life, the weeknd made him become a songwriter, record producer and singer. Inspired by Michael Jackson music, the weeknd became interested in the genre of R&B, and Pop. Beauty Behind the Madness is an album full of variety songs where they all focus on mostly drugs, relationships, and parties. The instrumentals and sounds in Beauty Behind the Madness tend to be classy and smooth in a different way. "Earned it" & "The hills" one of the songs that made the weeknd gain much more popularity, Also one of the songs that where played in the radio for several weeks. Having to wrote most of the songs in this album by himself the weeknd have been recognized by many people and artist like drake. Beauty Behind the madness have truly became one of the most successful albums so far in the weeknd music career.

Work Cited

http://respect-mag.com/2015/08/-the-weeknd-beauty-behind-the-madness/

http://www.biography.com/people/the-weeknd-011316