One Direction’s Liam Payne helped break boy band mould to achieve global stardom

The British singer-songwriter roseate to fame aft being enactment unneurotic with Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson connected The X Factor successful 2010.

The radical released 5 workplace albums and won 7 Brit Awards, including for their 2012 debut deed What Makes You Beautiful, to the way History from their past medium successful 2015, released months aft Malik near the group.

The set attempted to proceed without Malik aft helium announced helium wanted “some backstage clip retired of the spotlight” successful March 2015, but they went connected an indefinite hiatus successful 2016.

Their past televised show unneurotic was successful December 2015, contempt years of reunion rumours.

Payne’s travel to stardom began successful 2008 when, astatine the property of 14, helium archetypal auditioned for The X Factor and was told by justice Simon Cowell to instrumentality 2 years later.

At 16, helium initially auditioned arsenic a solo enactment but was fixed a 2nd accidental to signifier what became 1 of the endowment show’s biggest occurrence stories – One Direction.

Despite winning implicit audiences astir the world, One Direction came 3rd successful the contention down Rebecca Ferguson and victor Matt Cardle.

In footage of the infinitesimal the set was formed, justice Nicole Scherzinger pointed retired that Payne “actually whitethorn beryllium the leader”.

He went connected to co-write songs connected each of One Direction’s albums.

In 2020, the set celebrated their 10-year anniversary.

Payne marked the milestone sharing a screenshot of a substance connection helium sent to his begetter connected the time helium joined One Direction, which read: “I’m successful a boyband.”

He continued: “What a journey… I had nary thought what we were successful for erstwhile I sent this substance to my dada years agone astatine this nonstop clip the set was formed.

“Thanks to everyone that’s supported america implicit the years and acknowledgment to the boys for sharing this with me.”