Former One Route member Liam Payne has died after falling off a lodge balcony in Buenos Aires, TMZ studies. Payne was 31 years outdated.
Hailing from Wolverhampton, West Midlands in England, Payne first obtained concerned with leisure as a member of the Pink Productions Theatre Firm on the age of 12. He first auditioned for The X Issue in 2008, and, regardless of shifting previous the primary spherical with a efficiency of Frank Sinatra’s ‘Fly Me to the Moon’, was subsequently reduce on the Boot Camp stage. Choose Simon Cowell suggested him to “come again in two years,” and after auditioning once more in 2010, Payne was put into a gaggle with 4 different boys – Harry Types, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, and Zayn Malik – that will turn into One Route, one of many best-selling boy bands in music historical past.
After signing with Cowell’s Syco imprint in 2010, One Route turned a world sensation and launched their first studio album, Up All Night time, the next November. Their subsequent albums Take Me House (2012), Midnight Reminiscences (2013), and 4 (2014) all debuted atop the Billboard 200, making them the one group to have their first 4 albums find yourself at primary. Made within the A.M., the group’s final album earlier than occurring an indefinite hiatus, got here out in 2015.
Payne started working as a producer beneath the monikers Large Payno or Payno, co-writing and remixing a number of tracks together with Cheryl Cole’s ‘I Don’t Care’. In 2016, he signed with Republic Information and launched his first solo album, LP1, in 2019. The document featured collaborations with Quavo, Rita Ora, J Balvin, French Montana, and Zedd. On the time of his dying, Payne was reportedly engaged on his second studio album, and he launched a single referred to as ‘Teardrops’ in March.
Payne is survived by his son, Bear Gray Payne, who was born in 2017.
