{"id":14453,"date":"2024-10-17T14:12:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T14:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/liam-payne-life-of-former-one-direction-singer-in-pictures\/"},"modified":"2024-10-17T14:12:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T14:12:33","slug":"liam-payne-life-of-former-one-direction-singer-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/liam-payne-life-of-former-one-direction-singer-in-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Payne – life of former One Direction singer in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Singer Liam Payne has died at the age of 31. <\/p>\n

Payne rose to stardom in the group One Direction, before going on to have a solo career. <\/p>\n

He had a son, Bear, with the former Girls Aloud singer Cheryl.<\/p>\n

Here, we take a look at his life in pictures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Payne came to fame on the seventh series of the X Factor in 2010 as part of the group One Direction<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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He joined the contest as an individual, but judges on the show paired him up with Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Despite being pipped to the X Factor title by Matt Cardle, the group were signed by Simon Cowell’s label and released their debut single What Makes You Beautiful <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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One Direction became heartthrobs to teenage girls and later released their debut album Up All Night, which included hits like One Thing and Gotta Be You <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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In 2012, the group won their first Brit award for best British single <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The group performed for the final time on US TV in 2015<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Payne entered a relationship with singer Cheryl in 2016. They went on to have a baby together named Bear in 2017<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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In 2019, Payne released his debut solo album LP1, spawning single Strip That Down <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The singer, seen with his girlfriend Kate Cassidy, released his last single Teardrops in March this year<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Payne died at the Casa Sur hotel in Argentinian capital Buenos Aires on 17 October<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n


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Getty Images Singer Liam Payne has died at the age of 31. Payne rose to stardom in the group One Direction, before going on to have a solo career. He had a son, Bear, with the former Girls Aloud singer Cheryl. Here, we take a look at his life in pictures. Getty Images Payne came […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[6169,1248,283,6168,135,1677],"class_list":["post-14453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-pictures","tag-direction","tag-liam","tag-life","tag-payne","tag-pictures","tag-singer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14455,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14453\/revisions\/14455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}