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
Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981), occasionally known by his initials JT, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, dancer, and record producer.
Raised in Tennessee, he appeared on the television shows Star Search and The All-New Mickey Mouse Club as a child. In the late 1990s, Timberlake rose to prominence as one of the two lead vocalists and youngest member of NSYNC, which eventually became one of the best-selling boy bands of all time.
Timberlake began to adopt a more mature image as an artist with the release of his debut solo album, the R&B-focused Justified (2002), which yielded the successful singles "Cry Me a River" and "Rock Your Body", and earned his first two Grammy Awards.
One Direction: What have they been up to since their split?
msn.comOne of the cruellest games to play when confronted by a new boy band is speculating which members will vanish once they split.
For every Justin Timberlake, there’s a Chris Fitzpatrick – the answer to a collective “who?” mere minutes after NSYNC went their separate ways.
Unusually, One Direction didn’t have their own Fitzpatrick, each member hanging around in the pop culture ecosystem despite the source of their fame being long extinguished.This week marks 10 years since floppy haired youths Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne were melded together by Simon Cowell to make one sentient scream-inducer on The X Factor.
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