If you’ve ever felt insecure in your abilities and thought you’re not good enough, well fret not you’re not alone! And know that there is hope that things get better & you’ll grow into your skin!

Able Tesfaye much more famously known as The Weeknd kick started his career in 2009 by uploading a unique style of RnB on youtube! He spoke about it recently saying he wanted people to judge him based on his voice, not his looks.

He opened up about this insecurity of his in an interview saying: “I wanted to be very calculated about how I wanted people to see me or hear my music. The initial reason I did that was I didn’t think I was marketable when I was younger, especially for R'n'B. I didn’t think I had the right look. The R'n'B look was very sexual back in the day. Obviously, there were a lot of singers that didn’t have the conventional R'n'B look, but for me, it was more of a personal thing. I liked getting an unbiased reaction from my music. People got to just judge me for the art, for the music I was putting out.”

He then further explained: The real challenge was the live performances, going out there and showing yourself to people for the first time. And on top of that, I had to sing, and I had never performed live before, so I got thrown into the fire for that as well. I think Coachella was my first performance in the US and it might have been my fourth performance ever.”

Luckiy The Weeknd has since overcome his insecurities and worries and have now turned out as one of the biggest artists in modern day music. He was in fact crowed Spotify’s most streamed artist of 2022 with a whopping 111.4 million monthly listeners.