The Weeknd Was Almost Burned On Stage While Performing At Coachella

The Weeknd Was Almost Burned By Stage Flames While Performing At Coachella

The Weeknd had a very close call with some pyrotechnics during his recent Coachella performance, which so easily could have burnt his face and left him with permanent damage.

On Saturday (April 22), a Twitter fan page dedicated to The Weeknd (@NewsWeeknd) shared a video of the Canadian singer’s surprise Coachella performance from last weekend.

As he performed his verse on Future‘s 2016 track “Low Life,” the Grammy-Award winner almost got torched by some flames. The clip shows the singer trying to hype up the crowd when a sudden burst of fire blows up near him, causing him to back up and shout, “wooo!” Fortunately, he wasn’t burned.

 

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ALMOST COOKED ME https://t.co/pxWS7cTKwT

— The Weeknd (@theweeknd) April 22, 2023

“Be careful Abel,” the fan page wrote in the post’s caption. Quote tweeting the post, The Weeknd quickly acknowledged that he almost got burned while performing. “ALMOST COOKED ME,” he wrote.

Among the world’s best-selling music artists with over 75 million records sold, Tesfaye holds several streaming and Billboard chart records. He is the first Canadian artist to earn four diamond-certified singles from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), as well as the first artist to simultaneously hold the top three spots on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

“Blinding Lights” became the most-streamed song in Spotify history, and is ranked as the greatest Hot 100 song in Billboard history.

Tesfaye was listed by Time as one of the world’s most influential people in 2020, and was dubbed the “world’s most popular artist” by Guinness World Records in 2023. An advocate for racial equality and food security, he was appointed a World Food Programme Goodwill Ambassador in 2021.