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
Sneaks – ‘Happy Birthday’ review: an experiment in sound that fits and starts (but never gets boring)
nme.com“I’m not underrated / I’m not overrated / I’m just slightly sophisticated,” Eva Moolchan deadpans amid experimental synth whirrs and scything beats on ‘Slightly Sophisticated’, the sixth track on her uncompromising fourth album, which continues the odyssey into oddball dance-pop that began with last year’s ‘Highway Hypnosis’.
The message: she’s a best-kept secret musical outlier not waiting to be ‘discovered’, but content doing her own weird thing.Moolchan emerged from the Washington DC alternative scene under her Sneaks moniker with 2016 debut album ‘Gymnastics’, comprised of spit-and-sawdust bass and drums and her distinctive, sardonic sing-song delivery.
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