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
Zayn Malik has spoken about his reasons for leaving One Direction in March 2015, saying that the excuse of “stress” given at the time was not true.
In fact, he now says, he had seen that the group’s days were numbered and simply wanted to get “ahead of the curve” in terms of starting a solo career.
The rest of the band confirmed they were going “on hiatus” later that year.Speaking to Alex Cooper on her Call Her Daddy podcast, he said: “I don’t want to go into too much detail, but … there was a lot of politics, certain people didn’t want to sign contracts and I knew something was happening.
So, I was like, I’ll just get ahead of the curve and get out of here, I think this is done”.“I just [saw] it [coming] and I completely selfishly wanted to be the first person to go and make my own record”, he went on. “I jumped the gun and when it comes to my music I’m serious and competitive and I wanted to be the first to do that”.He added that the group’s interpersonal relationships had become strained by early 2015, saying: “There were obviously underlying issues within our friendships too – we’d got sick of each other, if I’m being completely honest.
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