ONE
DIRECTION
One Direction (commonly initialized as
1D) are an English-Irish pop boy band based in London, consisting of Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and
Louis Tomlinson.
They signed with Simon Cowell's record label Syco
Records after being formed and finishing third in the seventh series of the
British televised singing competition The X Factor in 2010.
Propelled to
international success by the power of social media, One Direction's three
albums, Up All Night, Take Me Home and Midnight Memories, (released in 2011,
2012 and 2013 respectively), broke several records, topped the charts of most
major markets, and generated hit singles, which include "What Makes You
Beautiful", "Live While We're Young" and "Story of My
Life".
Their achievements include two BRIT
Awards and four MTV Video Music Awards among many others.
According to Nick
Gatfield, the chairman and chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment UK, One
Direction represented a $50 million business empire by June 2012.
They were
proclaimed 2012's "Top New Artist" by Billboard.
According to the
Sunday Times Rich List, by April 2013 they had an estimated personal combined
wealth of £25 million ($41.2m) making them the second wealthiest musicians in
the UK under 30 years of age.
After the release of Midnight Memories, One
Direction became the second band to have their first three albums debut at
number one on the Billboard 200.
Additionally, the album was a global success,
debuting at number one on the UK Albums Chart and becoming the fastest and
biggest selling album of 2013 in the UK.
MEMBERS :
Harry
Styles
Full Name : Harry Edward Styles
Born : February, 1st 1994 Redditch, United Kingdom
Height : 1,80 m
Parents : Des Styles & Anne Cox
Nationality : English
Siblings : Gemma Styles
Twitter : https://twitter.com/Harry_Styles
Early life
Tomlinson is from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England.
Born to Johannah Poulston and Troy Austin,his parents split up when he was young and he took on his stepfather Mark Tomlinson's name.
Tomlinson was a sixth form student at Hall Cross School (a state comprehensive school) and a former pupil of the Hayfield School.
He failed his first year of A levels at the Hayfield School and ended up going back to Hall Cross and starting A levels again.
He had a number of jobs, including at a Vue cinema and at Doncaster Rovers football stadium as a waiter in the hospitality suites.
As a student at Hall Cross, Tomlinson appeared in several musical productions.
Taking the lead role of Danny Zuko in the Hall Cross musical production of Grease motivated him to audition for The X Factor
Harry Edward Styles is an English
pop singer & actor, known as a member of the boy band One Direction.
He made his debut as a singer with
his band White Eskimo, who performed locally in Holmes Chapel, Cheshire,
England.
Styles was born in Redditch,
Worcestershire.
He is the son of Anne Twist (née Cox
and Selley) and Desmond "Des" Styles.
Many of his ancestors were farm
labourers in Norfolk.
Styles was raised in Holmes Chapel,
Cheshire, after his parents moved there along with his older sister, Gemma,when
he was a baby.
He attended Holmes Chapel
Comprehensive School.
Styles' parents divorced when he was
seven and his mother later remarried.
As a sixteen-year-old he worked
part-time at the W. Mandeville Bakery in Holmes Chapel.
As a child, Styles loved singing,
noting Elvis Presley and The Beatles as his influences.
While at Holmes Chapel
Comprehensive, Styles was the lead singer for the band White Eskimo,which won a
local Battle of the Bands competition.
Louis
Tomlinson
Full Name : Louis William Tomlinson
Born : December, 24th 1991 Doncaster, United Kingdom
Height : 1,75 m
Parents : Troy Austin & Johannah Poulston
Siblings : Felicite Tomlinson, Daisy Tomlinson, Charlotte Tomlinson, Phoebe Tomlinson, Georgia Austin
Nationality : English
Twitter : https://twitter.com/Louis_Tomlinson
Early life
Tomlinson is from Doncaster, South Yorkshire,
England.
Born to Johannah Poulston and Troy Austin,his parents split
up when he was young and he took on his stepfather Mark Tomlinson's name.
Tomlinson was a sixth form student at Hall Cross
School (a state comprehensive school) and a former pupil of the Hayfield
School.
He failed his first year of A levels at the Hayfield School and
ended up going back to Hall Cross and starting A levels again.
He had a
number of jobs, including at a Vue cinema and at Doncaster Rovers football
stadium as a waiter in the hospitality suites.
As a student at Hall
Cross, Tomlinson appeared in several musical productions.
Taking the lead
role of Danny Zuko in the Hall Cross musical production of Grease motivated him
to audition for The X Factor.
Niall
Horan
Full Name : Niall James Horan
Born : September, 13th 1993 Mullingar, Country Westmeath, Ireland
Twitter : https://twitter.com/NiallOfficial
Early life
Born to Bobby and Maura (née Gallagher) Horan, he has an older brother named Greg. Their parents divorced when he was five.
He and his brother lived between each of their homes for a few years before eventually deciding to live with their father in Mullingar.
Horan was a pupil at Coláiste Mhuire, a boys' Christian Brothers school.
He was in his school's choir, performing seasonally around Christmas.
Prior to participating in The X Factor, he performed around his homeland, including as a support act for Lloyd Daniels in Dublin.
Horan has been playing guitar since his childhood.
Horan has also stated that he is a "big swing" fan, citing favourite artists Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Michael Bublé.
Horan liked rock music and is a fan of The Eagles, Bon Jovi and The Script.
Zayn Malik
Full Name : Zain Javadd Malik
Born : January, 12th 1993 Bradford, West Yorkshire, England
Twitter : https://twitter.com/zaynmalik
Early life
His father, Yaser Malik, is British Pakistani, and his mother, Tricia (née Brannan) Malik, is of Irish and English descent.
He has one older sister, Doniya, and two younger sisters, Waliyha and Safaa.
He grew up in East Bowling,was a pupil at Lower Fields Primary School, and went to Tong High School, a state comprehensive school.
Malik did not fit in at his first two schools due to his mixed heritage.
Malik has stated that he started taking pride in his appearance after moving schools at the age of twelve.
Upon auditioning for The X Factor, he stated: "I was looking for an experience".
He cites urban music as his main musical influence, growing up, he was into R&B and rap.
He as well as other members of One Direction further notes artists such as Bruno Mars, as a "dream collaborator."
Malik is a heavy cigarette smoker; in late 2011, he expressed his desire to quit.
Malik is Muslim, and once affirmed that by tweeting "La ila ha ill lalla ho muhammed door rasoolalah" (declaration of faith, meaning: "There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the prophet of Allah").
In June 2012, Malik's approach to Islam was criticised by blogger Debbie Schlussel, who accused him of advertising Islam to young fans; at the same time, he was criticised, on Twitter, by conservative Muslims, for not taking Islamic doctrine seriously enough.
Liam
Payne
Full Name : Liam James Payne
Born : August, 29th 1993 Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England
Twitter : https://twitter.com/Real_Liam_Payne
Early life
Born three weeks early, to Karen and Geoff
Payne,
he has two older sisters, Ruth and Nicola.
Until the age of
four, Payne had regular tests done in hospital as doctors noticed one of his
kidneys was scarred and dysfunctional.
To help cope with the pain, he had
32 injections in his arm in the morning and evening as a child.As a
student, Payne was heavily involved in sports.
Payne was bullied in
secondary school and took up boxing lessons at the age of 12.
He was a music
technology student at City of Wolverhampton College.
Payne had once performed in front of a crowd of
26,000 at a Wolverhampton Wanderers football match.
Payne first
auditioned in 2008 to The X Factor's fifth series when he was fourteen.
He
made it to the judges' houses, but Cowell thought he was not ready for the
competition and asked him to come back in two years.
Payne cites Justin
Timberlake as one of his biggest influences.
He also said that he draws
inspiration from Take That member Gary Barlow when performing.
Payne is currently in a relationship with model
Sophia Smith, from Wolverhampton.
ONE DIRECTION'S SONG :
- Forever Young
- Another World
- Taken
- Tell Me A Lie
- I Wish
- I Want
- Save You Tonight
- Same Mistakes
- One Thing
- Na Na Na
- More Than This
- Moments
- Got To Be You
- Everything About You
- Another World
- Stole My Heart
- Stand Up
- Up All night
- What Makes You Beautiful
- Torn
- C’mon, C’mon
- Change My Mind
- Blame It All On You
- Back For You
- Summer Love
- Take Me Home
- I Would
- I Should Have Kissed You
- I Can Love You More
- Heartbreaker
- Heart Attack
- Echos
- Dreaming
- She’s Not Afraid
- Rock Me
- Still The One
- Back For You
- Nobody Knows
- Nobody Compares
- Over Again
- One Way Or Another
- Last First Kiss
- Kiss You
- Little Things
- Loved You First
- Magic
- Maths Song
- Irresistible
- They Don’t Know About Us
- Live While We’re Young
- Wonderwall
- Vas Happenin’ Boys
- Better Than Words
- Best Song Ever
- Beggin On Your Knees
- Alive
- All You Need Is Love
- All I Have For You
- Happily
- Half a Heart
- Dominate Me
- Don’t Forget Where You Belong
- don’t let me go
- Does He Know?
- Diana
- Alive
- All I Have For You
- All You Need Is Love
- Begin On Your Knees
- Best Song Ever
- Story Of My Life
- Strong
- Stay With Me
- Right Now
- Something Great
- Look Into Her Eyes
- Just Can’t Let Her Go
- Midnight Memories
- Little White Lies
- The Wake Up Song
- Little Black Dress
- Through The Dark
- Truly Madly Deeply
- Why Don’t We Go There
- You & I
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