Abel Makkonen Tesfaye religion is Ethiopian Orthodox and Canadian by nationality. He was born in Toronto, Ontario February 16, 1990.
When Abel was asked whether he is still religious or not, he said to Variety, “I dunno…everything is a test, and if you are religious or spiritual, you have to go through things.”
He was born to Makkonen Tesfaye and Samrawit Hailu, who divorced shortly after his birth. Before that, they were Ethiopian immigrants.
After the duo’s split, He was nurtured in the district of Scarborough by his grandmother and mother. He has an estranged relationship with his dad, which he expressed in the American monthly magazine Rolling Stone.
Not only that, he learned Amharic from his grandmother, which is his native language. He later became well-spoken in French by attending a French-immersion school.
