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 has marked 10 years since he shot to fame on The X Factor when he was a “scared, young man”. One Direction were famously formed on the ITV show in 2010.
Payne, 26, now a solo singer, posted a snap on Instagram of his younger self auditioning for the judges. “It’s been 10 years today since my X Factor audition… and I just read that my first album just hit over two billion streams,” he wrote. “That scared young man didn’t think that was gonna happen. “Seriously, thank you everyone who’s made this decade of my life possible and to everyone who’s listening thank you for enjoying my music and my bands too. “PS, thanks also for putting up with some awful haircuts like the one above.” One Direction went on hiatus in 2016, a few months
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