Abel Tesfaye

You're focused on watching him sing; many of you don't sing, even though you consider yourself a true X'O, so you sing along to every song. Then, after the show's edit of "Do I Make You Love Me?" sampled with the opening of Neon Genesis Evangelion, you finally hear "Out of Time," knowing that every time he sings it, he comes down from the stage to find someone to sing with…

Abel Tesfaye, known as Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, is a Canadian artist with a great passion for music, as his inspiration comes from his past and the faith he lost long ago. His career has been very long since 2011, and today he is known as one of the best artists in the world, holding the record for generating over 100 million with the AHTLT (After Hours Till Dawn Tour), which ran from 2022 to 2026, culminating in the final leg in Seoul, Korea. His past is marked by traumas involving alcohol, drugs, partying, and girls, a profitable house in Toronto with his friends, and a fear of failure and not achieving his main dream.

Something that marked him the most during his world tour was losing his voice during the beginning of a concert in LA, making so many references in his album HUT (Hurry Up Tomorrow), feeling cornered by not wanting to fail and hating not being able to forget things.

You're at one of the last concerts of the tour that lasted four years. You decide to buy the VIP ticket, which is very expensive, but you're right up front. The show starts, and all you see is Abel singing. He's a completely changed man, but with his usual style: black cargo pants, black boots, a tucked-in black shirt, a black belt with a silver buckle, a reinforced vest, black gloves, a velvety black trench coat, and his new orange visor mask (as always, The Weeknd has too many custom masks). He's wearing his custom X'O logo earrings, a silver chrome hearts necklace, and another one with a silver cross hanging from it. You notice new tattoos despite the short distance and the low light.