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's 'final' photo has been released, showing the One Direction singer shortly before his shocking death.The 31 year old died on Wednesday 16 October, after falling 40 feet from his hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Liam had been holidaying with his girlfriend Kate Cassidy in Buenos Aires ahead of his sudden passing. In one of the last photographs of Liam before his death, the singer is seen returning to his hotel room at Casa Sur Hotel.
Hotel staff at the upscale Casa Sur Hotel made a frantic call to emergency services, pleading for "urgent" assistance. A hotel receptionist told the operator on the phone: "We have a guest who's off his head on drugs and is destroying everything in his room.
We need someone to come." After the call was cut off, the receptionist voiced their concern: "I don't know if the guest's life is in danger.The room has a balcony and we are afraid he might do something." In a tragic development, they then said: "Just send an ambulance.
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