With Beauty Behind the Madness quickly approaching, The Weeknd follows up his official preview of the album earlier this week, by landing the cover of Billboard’s latest issue. In this week’s Billboard cover story, Carl Wilson got to spend quality time with him at a video shoot in Brooklyn, talked about his relationship with his mom and much more.
He Strives to Make His Mother Proud
Tesfaye dropped out of high school, and moved to downtown Toronto to focus on a career in music. “I couldn’t face her until I made something out of myself,” he tells Billboard, speaking about his Ethiopian-Canadian single mother. “I couldn’t go back home as a nobody.”
Michael Jackson Made Him Want to Be a Songwriter… and Get Emotional
There’s a reason Tesfaye covered Michael Jackson’s “Dirty Diana” (as “D.D.”) on his 2011 mixtape Echoes of Silence. “I got emotional,” he says, thinking back to the first time he read its lyrics. “It’s when I first knew I wanted to write songs.”
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