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
I Started a One Direction Stan Account to Find My Tribe. I’ve Revived It to Process Liam Payne’s Death
variety.comThania Garcia After nearly half a decade spent obsessively keeping up with One Direction in my youth, one of the first things I did after finding out Liam Payne died in Buenos Aires on Oct.
16 was re-open the Twitter (now X) fan account I dedicated to the band in 2012. To my surprise, I wasn’t the only one who had returned.
My timeline was just as flooded as it was during the band’s glory years, but now with words of comfort, and old videos of the group doing or saying silly things.
Some fellow fans wondered if the news of his death was true, despite the countless reports confirming that it was. And for the first time in four years, One Direction was active on Instagram, with a statement signed by all of the boys — but surreally, including Zayn (who’d left in 2015), and without Payne.
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