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
, has died after falling from a hotel room in Argentina, according to reports.Police in Buenos Aires confirmed to in a statement that Payne had fallen from the third floor of a hotel in the city’s Palermo neighborhood.
Citing local media, reported that Payne was found in an interior patio at the hotel.Payne, along with Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, and Niall Horan, formed One Direction in 2010 after the boys appeared separately on the UK’s The X Factor.
The boy band was a sensation and spawned several hits before disbanding in 2015 to focus on solo projects.Payne continued to release music, most notably a single “Strip That Down” in 2017.
That same year, he welcomed a son, Bear, with his then-girlfriend, British pop star Cheryl Cole.Liam Payne told in a 2021 interview that raising his son with Cole was “fantastic.”“Cheryl is literally the best person to co-parent with,” he said. “No stress involved.
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