The Weeknd grew up watching the Toronto Blue Jays play at the SkyDome . So it was only fitting that he would refer to Rogers Centre by its old name multiple times as he closed out the last of four sold-out shows in his hometown Friday night.
The Scarborough-born R&B superstar, born Abel Tesfaye, played his last-ever show in Toronto before he retires his Weeknd moniker with a two-plus hour concert that covered a 15-year hit streak that began in earnest after a trio of mixtapes — House of Balloons , Thursday and Echoes of Silence — helped catapult him to music stardom in 2011.
Unlike other stops on his now three-year-old After Hours Til Dawn tour, Tesfaye was back in the city that shaped his signature sound, and he never stopped acknowledging how important Toronto was in his mu