Police say 31-year-better singer, who obtained fame in pop supergroup, fell to his death from a hotel in Argentina’s capital.
Liam Payne, a establisher member of the globpartner well-understandn One Direction pop group, has died at age 31.
Police in the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires shelp Payne fell from the third floor of the Casa Sur Hotel in the trendy Palermo neighbourhood on Wednesday. He persisted “excessively grave injuries” and was pronounced dead at the scene.
In a statement to The Associated Press, Pablo Policicchio, the spokesperson for the Security Ministry of the Buenos Aires municipality, shelp police had been called to the hotel in response to a inestablish of an “unfriendly man who could be under the impact of substances or spirits”.
Policicchio tbetter the novels agency that Payne “had thrown himself from the balcony of his room”. Further details were not instantly clear, and authorities are still scatterigating the death.
Local media in Argentina inestablished that Payne had been in Buenos Aires to combine the concert of his establisher One Direction prohibitdmate Niall Horan.
In 2010, Payne and Horan auditioned splitly, alengthened with Zayn Malik, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson, for the UK singing competition The X Factor.
While none of the boys progressd individupartner, they were grouped together by record executive Simon Cowell and his fellow assesss. They went on to become one of the most prosperous boy prohibitds in history.
During the six years the members were together as a prohibitd, One Direction had six top-10 hits on the Billboard charts. The perestablishers ultimately disprohibitded in 2016. Their chart-topping songs integrate What Makes You Beautiful, Story of My Life and Perfect.
The members of the group all went on to chase solo atgentles, with Payne putting out the album LP1 in 2019.
His last free was a individual in March called Teardrops.
Payne is persistd by a seven-year-better son, Bear Grey Payne, whom he had with his establisher girlfriend, the musician Cheryl Cole.
The One Direction singer ecombineed to have posted on the social media platestablish Snapchat hours before his death on Wednesday.
He talked about riding horses and carry outing polo in Argentina while seeing forward to returning home to see his dog.
“It’s a adocount on day here in Argentina,” he shelp in the video.
