Confessions.
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3. At 14-years-old after signing his first recording contract, Usher moved to New York and lived with
Diddy, who also served as his mentor.
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The Weeknd
4. He tweaked the spelling of his stage name for legal reasons. I took out the e because there was already a Canadian band named the weekend (copyright issues), he explained. The Weeknd was born Abel Makkonen Tesfaye.
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5. Anonymous videos of The Weeknd singing were uploaded to YouTube in 2010. He remained so anonymous that even his American Apparel coworkers at the time listened to his music without realizing he was the voice behind the videos.
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