The fans of Liam Payne They wanted to see their idol live, in September of last year in Buenos Aires, as planned months ago.
The Movistar Arena’s official website then said the artist had canceled his visit, saying: “We regret to inform you that due to health issues, Liam Payne’s show scheduled for September 9 at Movistar Arena has been cancelled. The artist has been in the hospital due to a serious kidney infection and doctors have strictly ordered him to restwhich led him to cancel all his scheduled dates in South America.”
He was going to come to the country with his solo material for the first time.in a show that would span his career and where surprises were expected from the Boy band that marked the direction of pop in the last decade.
The event was going to be on September 9 at the Movistar Arena stadium, with production by DF Entertainment.
Liam Payne entered the music industry through the front door: at 16 years old, he formed One Direction, the most important boy band of recent timesjunto a Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson y Niall Horan.
But it wasn’t all that simple. With dreams of being a singer since he was very young, Liam had appeared for the first time in the British talent scouting program. The X Factor at the age of 15, when one of the judges had advised him to return a little older.
Liam Payne tried again in 2010, with a memorable audition that received a standing ovation. That same year, Nicole Scherzinger, singer of The Pussycat Dolls and judge of the competition, suggested to Liam and the rest of the members of One Direction that they perform together, in band format, in one of the most notable successes in recent musical history. .
One Direction in Argentina, on their memorable visit in 2014.The group came third in the contest, but the seed and chemistry remained unchanged and they took them to the studio for the first time to record together. His first single, What Makes You Beautiful It was a huge success and soon the songs that would make up their first album arrived. Up All Nightwhich was released in November 2011.
From then on, One Direction would mark the north in pop with very important awards, five studio albums and indelible hits like Night Changes, Story of My Life, 18, Right Nowto name just a few.
One Direction went on an indefinite hiatus at the end of 2015.but the band members still had a lot of music to make.
The British group One Direction during their concert on Saturday, May 3, 2014, at the Vélez Sarfield stadium in Buenos Aires. Photo: EFEIn Liam’s case, it all started with the single Strip That Down, a collaboration with Quavo, co-written with Ed Sheeran and Steve Mac which premiered in May 2017 and which showed a much more mature and daring Liam, both in the lyrics and in terms of the sound search.
It was a preview of what the singer had in hand to begin a solo stage: other rhythms, forays into dance music, darker themes than those they had tackled during the Boy Band stage.
Another sample would arrive in 2018 with the single For Youalong with Rita Ora, for the soundtrack of the thriller Fifty Shades Freed.
In August of that same year, he released his first EP, First Timeof four songs that began to show us different facets of the artist, between an incursion into Latin rhythms in the homonymous First Timegoing through a deep approach to a separation in Home With You and a raw ballad as it is Depend On It.
His first album, LP1came to delve into those themes and new proposals regarding the genres and styles that enter and amalgamate in a unique and personal trap-pop environment.