Before They Were Famous: Watch This Rare Clip of The Weeknd at an Early Studio Session
A recently unearthed clip shows The Weeknd during his earlier days.
Before the matted dreads and countless radio hits, The Weeknd was just a young artist making experimental tunes with his friends.
A recently unearthed video shows Abel Tesfaye in these earlier days.
The rare clip shows a bespectacled Tesfaye and his producer playing bhangra compositions during a studio session.
Check it out below via, The6Track's Twitter.
Never before seen video of The Weeknd in the studio (Multiple years back) tweeted and deleted by a producer he worked with pic.twitter.com/muMat2J1i7
— The6Track (@the6Track) March 3, 2017
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