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Liam Payne of One Direction – a life in pictures | Music

British boy band star and solo singer Liam Payne has died aged 31 after falling from a hotel in Argentina. Payne was 16 when he joined One Direction, which was formed by music director Simon Cowell in 2010 on the reality show The X Factor. The band – Payne, Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik – became one of the biggest boy bands of all time. In 2016 they went on an indefinite hiatus and Payne began a solo career

Liam Payne, former One Direction singer, dies at the age of 31