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
Sam Smith is all for One Direction reuniting and, honestly, same. The Leave Your Lover singer, 27, proved that they are just as much a Directioner as the rest of us, as they revealed their hopes of the five-piece boyband getting back together.
Speaking on Sirius XM via video link during the coronavirus lockdown, Sam was very much of the opinion that a 1D reunion is what the world needs right now and the sooner the better. ‘They should do it.
They should do it soon,’ Sam said, joking that there’s no point the band – made up of Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan – waiting ‘until their 60 years old’ to do it.
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