Police say 31-year-old singer, who gained fame in pop supergroup, fell to his dying from a resort in Argentina’s capital.
Liam Payne, a former member of the globally common One Direction pop group, has died at age 31.
Police within the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires mentioned Payne fell from the third flooring of the Casa Sur Lodge within the stylish Palermo neighbourhood on Wednesday. He sustained “extraordinarily severe accidents” and was pronounced lifeless on the scene.
In an announcement to The Related Press, Pablo Policicchio, the spokesperson for the Safety Ministry of the Buenos Aires municipality, mentioned police had been known as to the resort in response to a report of an “aggressive man who might be underneath the affect of medication or alcohol”.
Policicchio informed the information company that Payne “had thrown himself from the balcony of his room”. Additional particulars weren’t instantly clear, and authorities are nonetheless investigating the dying.
Native media in Argentina reported that Payne had been in Buenos Aires to attend the live performance of his former One Route bandmate Niall Horan.
In 2010, Payne and Horan auditioned individually, together with Zayn Malik, Harry Types and Louis Tomlinson, for the UK singing competitors The X Issue.
Whereas not one of the boys superior individually, they had been grouped collectively by file govt Simon Cowell and his fellow judges. They went on to change into one of the vital profitable boy bands in historical past.
Throughout the six years the members had been collectively as a band, One Route had six top-10 hits on the Billboard charts. The performers finally disbanded in 2016. Their chart-topping songs embody What Makes You Lovely, Story of My Life and Good.
The members of the group all went on to pursue solo careers, with Payne placing out the album LP1 in 2019.
His final launch was a single in March known as Teardrops.
Payne is survived by a seven-year-old son, Bear Gray Payne, whom he had together with his former girlfriend, the musician Cheryl Cole.
The One Route singer appeared to have posted on the social media platform Snapchat hours earlier than his dying on Wednesday.
He talked about driving horses and taking part in polo in Argentina whereas trying ahead to returning residence to see his canine.
“It’s a beautiful day right here in Argentina,” he mentioned within the video.
