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 widespread One Course pop group, has died at age 31.
Police within the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires stated 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, stated police had been known as to the resort in response to a report of an “aggressive man who may very well be underneath the affect of medication or alcohol”.
Policicchio instructed 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 Course bandmate Niall Horan.
In 2010, Payne and Horan auditioned individually, together with Zayn Malik, Harry Kinds 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 report government Simon Cowell and his fellow judges. They went on to grow to be some of the profitable boy bands in historical past.
Throughout the six years the members had been collectively as a band, One Course had six top-10 hits on the Billboard charts. The performers finally disbanded in 2016. Their chart-topping songs embrace What Makes You Stunning, Story of My Life and Excellent.
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 Course singer appeared to have posted on the social media platform Snapchat hours earlier than his dying on Wednesday.
He talked about using horses and enjoying polo in Argentina whereas trying ahead to returning house to see his canine.
“It’s a stunning day right here in Argentina,” he stated within the video.
