Liam Payne, the previous One Course star who finally blossomed right into a profitable solo profession, died Wednesday (Oct. 16), in response to CNN. He was 31 years previous.
In line with police, Payne died after falling from a third-floor resort room in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Earlier than his loss of life, the native police acquired a telephone name from the resort, which reported the presence of a person with aggressive habits. No additional info has been revealed in regards to the fall.
Billboard has reached out to Payne’s reps for affirmation and extra info.
The musician was greatest generally known as a key member of British boy band One Course, which additionally included Harry Kinds, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan. The group was shaped in 2010 on the U.Okay. model of The X Issue. As a band, One Course boasts greater than 300 reveals performed throughout 4 sold-out world excursions, 4 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200, six Billboard Scorching 100 high 10 hits, 4 MTV Video Music Awards, 28 Teen Selection Awards, two Saturday Night time Reside appearances and billions of streams.
After the group went on hiatus in 2015, Payne launched his solo profession in 2017 with the Quavo-assisted “Strip That Down,” which peaked at No. 10 on the Scorching 100. After a string of singles, together with “For You” from Fifty Shades Freed with Rita Ora, “Get Low” with Zedd and “Acquainted” with J Balvin, Payne unveiled his first solo EP, Quick Time, in August 2018. His debut album, LP1, arrived in December 2019.
In 2021, Payne mentioned his substance-use points on the Diary of a CEO podcast, revealing his battle with despair and habit in the course of the 1D years. Nevertheless, in Might 2023, the star revealed he had gone 100 days with out alcohol. “Issues are actually, actually good. I’m sober now over 100 days. I really feel superb,” Payne stated on the time “I really feel actually, actually good, and assist from the followers and all the pieces has been actually, actually good. So, I’m tremendous joyful.”
Just some months later, in August 2023, Payne posted to his social media accounts that he had been hospitalized with a “severe kidney an infection” and was suspending his South African tour dates. He was launched from the hospital a number of weeks later.
In March 2024, Payne launched his first new music in three years, a single titled “Teardrops,” which was written alongside *NSYNC member JC Chasez. Simply weeks previous to his loss of life, on Oct. 2, the star was seen attending his fellow 1D member Niall Horan’s present at Movistar Enviornment in Buenos Aires, the place he greeted followers from a field suite and sang together with them.
Payne has one baby, a son named Bear Gray, whom he welcomed with singer Cheryl Cole in March 2017.
