Liam Payne's highs and lows after shock death at 31: From his X Factor rise to fame to his conflicts with One Direction bandmates

Liam Payne died successful Buenos Aires connected Wednesday astatine the property of 31.

The hitmaker reportedly fell from a 3rd level of a edifice in the Argentinian superior of Buenos Aires, according to TMZ. Investigations into his decease are inactive ongoing. 

The English prima roseate to fame arsenic a subordinate of the lad set One Direction, alongside his erstwhile bandmates Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson.

He made his debut arsenic a vocalist on the British tv bid The X Factor, erstwhile helium was 14.

As Hollywood mourns the musician, DailyMail.com takes a look backmost astatine the highs and lows of his beingness and career.

The X Factor (2008) 

Payne had his archetypal audition for the 5th bid of The X Factor successful 2008, erstwhile helium was conscionable 14 years old.

The audition was held successful beforehand of judges Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole, Dannii Minogue and Louis Walsh.

He precocious past the archetypal circular of X Factor aft impressing the judges with his rendition of Frank Sinatra's 'Fly Me to the Moon.'

Though helium was initially eliminated astatine the Boot Camp stage, Cowell brought Payne backmost for the judges' houses stage. He was chopped again during judges' houses but was encouraged by Cowell to instrumentality successful 2 years.

The vocalist returned to the amusement successful 2010, auditioning successful beforehand of Cowell, Cole, Walsh and impermanent justice Natalie Imbruglia.

Following a proposition from erstwhile justice Nicole Scherzinger, helium was enactment unneurotic with Horan, Malik, Styles and Tomlinson to signifier a lad band.

The instrumentality absorption was instant too, with 1D hysteria soon dwarfing the show. Despite the adoration, the set yet finished successful 3rd spot connected the X Factor.

Cowell aboriginal admitted to Rolling Stone that it took him 'about a millionth of a second' to spot the group's worldwide potential. 

After the X Factor, One Direction were signed to Simon Cowell's Syco Entertainment.

One Direction (2010 - 2016) 

One Direction's debut single, What Makes You Beautiful, was released September 2011 and reached fig 1 successful respective countries.  

It was followed by their debut album, Up All Night, making One Direction the archetypal UK radical to person their debut medium scope fig 1 successful the United States. 

The radical released 'Live While We're Young', the pb azygous from their 2nd medium successful September 2012. It became an instant planetary success.

By November 2012, they released their 2nd album, Take Me Home, which reached fig 1 successful implicit 35 countries.

The group's 3rd album, Midnight Memories, was released successful November 2013. It became the best-selling medium worldwide that year, with 4 cardinal copies sold globally.

The group's 3rd header tour, the Where We Are Tour, grossed implicit $290 million, mounting a caller grounds arsenic the highest-grossing circuit of each clip by a vocal group. 

The radical released their 4th album, Four, successful 2014. It was the past medium that included Gigi Hadid's ex Zayn. 

After Malik announced his departure from the set successful 2015, the set went their abstracted ways.

During their clip arsenic a band, One Direction won 5 Brit Awards, 4 MTV Video Music Awards, amassed implicit 3 cardinal YouTube views and sold 50 cardinal records worldwide.

Solo Career  

After releasing 5 albums with 1 of the biggest boybands of each time, Liam released his archetypal solo medium titled LP1 successful 2019.

His singles Strip That Down co-written with Ed Sheeran climbed its mode to fig 10 connected the Billboard Hot 100 illustration that aforesaid year.