2024-10-16 23:36:00
theOne Direction fans are in shock. Liam Payne, a former member of the famous British boy band, died on Tuesday in Argentina, Buenos Aires police announced. He was 31 years old.
“Liam James Payne, singer-songwriter and guitarist, former member of the group One Direction, died today after falling from the third floor of a hotel,” read a police statement. This fall would not be accidental: indicated Pablo Policicchio, spokesperson for the Ministry of Security of Buenos Aires at the AP agency that the singer “jumped from his bedroom balcony. »
“Aggressive” behavior.
Police received an emergency call from the hotel reporting a man acting “aggressively, who may be under the influence of drugs or alcohol.” When officers arrived, they heard the sound of an impact and found the singer’s body in the hotel courtyard. He suffered “very serious injuries following the fall, we declared him dead, there was no possibility of resuscitation”, the emergency manager, Alberto Crescenti, said on television.
READ ALSO How much is “Moon Music”, Coldplay’s tenth album, worth?Liam Payne had been in Argentina for two weeks. According to his publications on social networks, he attended Niall Horan’s concert, former member of One Direction, on October 2nd.
Global success
Liam Payne first auditioned in 2008 on the British show X factor at 14 years old. He tried his luck again two years later and found himself in the group competition with Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson. If they don’t win, the boy band signs to presenter Simon Cowell’s label and becomes a global phenomenon. “1D”’s hiatus in 2016 left many fans in tears.
He didn’t have the same solo success as Harry Styles and Zayn Malik, but Liam Payne still had 4 million monthly listeners on Spotify. His hit “Strip,” featuring rapper Quavo, has surpassed one billion streams, and “For You,” featuring Rita Ora, featured on the soundtrack to the film Fifty Shades Freed, is approaching 500 million streams.
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