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
Liam Payne cancels latest tour amid kidney infection, rehab stay
nypost.comin an Instagram video Friday.“I ended up in hospital with a bad kidney infection. We started rehearsals and I’ve been advised that now is really not the right time to be traveling on the road while I recover from this.”The “Strip That Down” songster added that he has “the best people around me at home trying to help me recover ” and his team will work to reschedule the tour.Last month, the boy band grad revealed he spent 100 days in a rehab facility to “get well” after a public spat with his former One Direction bandmates on Logan Paul’s “Impulsive” podcast.“I kind of became somebody who I didn’t recognize and I’m sure you didn’t either,” Payne told fans in a YouTube video on July 8.“I was in bad shape up to that point.
I was really happy more than anything when I arrived to kind of put a stopper on life and work. I didn’t have my phone for nearly 100 days,” he added.One Direction has been on hiatus since 2015..
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