Liam James Payne (born 29 August 1993) is an English singer and songwriter.
He rose to fame as a member of the boy band One Direction.
Payne made his debut as a singer when he auditioned for the British television series The X Factor in 2008. After being eliminated as a solo performer, he auditioned again in 2010 and was put into a group with four other contestants to form One Direction
10 Reasons to Celebrate One Direction on the Group’s 10th Anniversary
variety.comJanet W. Lee One Direction returned to Twitter for the first time in two years on Wednesday, July 22, posting ahead of its 10-year anniversary: “Tomorrow!
You and me got a whole lot of history #10YearsOf1D,” the band wrote. The tweet swiftly accumulated nearly 1 million re-tweets in 14 hours and more than 1.7 million likes and spurred chatter all over the internet as to whether the group was planning to reunite.What’s the significance of July 23?
It marks the moment on “The X Factor” when Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson progressed in the U.K.
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