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 blames One Direction’s split on ‘tiredness’
peoplemagazine.co.zaLiam Payne has claimed One Direction’s split was caused by “tiredness more than anything”. The British boyband officially went on hiatus in January 2016, not long after Zayn Malik departed the group.
But in a recent interview on Jordan Stephens’s Spotify podcast Killing It, Liam admitted that the boys’ hectic schedules and lack of sleep were partly responsible for the split. “We all just got on with it, you know, it was just a case of this is your job and this is what you do and then you just slowly spiralled into this thing,” he explained. “I mean, more than anything for us, I think the danger zone is in the band.
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