The singer, who rose to fame with the British band One Direction, has died in Argentina, according to police. Liam Payne was 31 years old.
Liam Payne is dead. The former One Direction star died in Argentina on Wednesday, according to police. Accordingly, Payne fell from a balcony on the third floor of a hotel in the capital Buenos Aires. He was only 31 years old.
The British singer “suffered very serious injuries” in the fall, the head of the city’s emergency services, Alberto Crescenti, told local television. There was “no possibility of revival”.
According to Crescenti, rescue workers rushed to the hotel in the Palermo district after receiving an emergency call at 5:04 p.m. local time. They arrived seven minutes later and “discovered the death of the man, who we later learned was a singer.” Crescenti said an investigation has been launched to determine the circumstances surrounding Payne’s death.
Payne took part in the British talent show “XFactor” in 2010 at the age of 16. The resulting boy band One Direction, whose members also included Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson, was enormously successful around the world. In 2016, the group announced a break and Payne then started his solo career.
The musician attended a concert by his former bandmate Niall Horan in Buenos Aires at the beginning of October and is said to have gone on vacation afterwards. Social media footage published by the British Daily Mail, which Payne is said to have posted a few hours before the fall, shows him smiling in the hotel room with his girlfriend Kate Cassidy.
Between 2015 and 2018, Payne was in a relationship with British singer Cheryl Cole, and their son Bear Gray was born in 2017.