Former One Direction member Liam Payne has died after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires. TMZ I will report it. Payne was 31 years old.
Born in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, Payne first got involved in entertainment at the age of 12 as a member of Pink Productions Theater Company. X factor In 2008, he made it past the first round with his performance of Frank Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon,” but was cut during boot camp. Judge Simon Cowell advised Payne to “come back in two years”, and after auditioning again in 2010, he auditioned for other roles including Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik. One of the best-selling boy bands in music history, formed with four other boys, became One Direction.
After signing Cowell’s Psycho in 2010, One Direction became a global sensation and released their first studio album. up all nightNovember of the following year. subsequent albums take me home (2012), Memories of midnight (2013), and 4 (2014) debuted on top of everything signboard They became the only group to have their first four albums reach number one. made in the morningthe group’s last album before an indefinite hiatus, was released in 2015.
Payne began working as a producer under the name Big Payno or Payno, and co-wrote and remixed several songs, including Cheryl Cole’s “I Don’t Care.” In 2016, he signed with Republic Records and released his first solo album. LP1The record features collaborations with Quavo, Rita Ora, J Balvin, French Montana, and Zedd. Payne was reportedly working on his second studio album at the time of his death, and released a single called “Teardrops” in March.
Payne is survived by a son, Bear Gray Payne, who was born in 2017.
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