The Weeknd has changed his name on social media to his birth name, Abel Tesfaye.
Tesfaye opted to keep his handles on Instagram and Twitter as The Weeknd, and made no changes to his Facebook at all.earlier this month, Tesfaye said that he's"getting ready to close the Weeknd chapter" and reinvent himself as a musician.
"I’m going through a cathartic path right now,” he told the magazine. “It’s getting to a place and a time where I’m getting ready to close the Weeknd chapter. I’ll still make music, maybe as Abel, maybe as The Weeknd. But I still want to kill The Weeknd. And I will. Eventually. I’m definitely trying to shed that skin and be reborn.”
Tesfaye went on to say that the album he's currently working on might be his"last hurrah as The Weeknd."Earlier this year, the"Blinding Lights" and"Die for You" singer
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