Liam Payne , who came to fame as a member of One Direction , has died. He was 31. On Wednesday, Secretario de Seguridad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires David Kraventz (the Security Secretary of Buenos Aires) confirmed to Rolling Stone that the British singer died after falling from the third floor of CasaSur Palmero Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
A cause of death has not yet been confirmed. The city’s medical emergency agency, SAME, also confirmed Payne’s death to Rolling Stone ’s Argentina bureau . SAME’s director, Alberto Crescenti, told the local press that it was a fall from “about 13 or 14 meters”, and that Payne “suffered severe injuries incompatible with life.
” Earlier this month, Payne was spotted taking photos with fans at Movistar Arena in Buenos Aires, where his One Direction bandmate Niall Horan was performing. The two One Direction members reunited there as well. “It’s been a while since me and Niall have spoken.
We’ve got a lot to talk about,” he said in a Snapchat video before going to Argentina. “And I would like to square up a couple of things with the boy. No bad vibes or anything like that.
But just, um , we need to talk.” Payne was born in Wolverhampton, England on Aug. 29, 1993.
He auditioned for The X-Factor in 2008 at the age of 14, where he performed a cover of Frank Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon” as a soloist. He would be placed into a group with Horan, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, and Zayn Malik when the X-Factor a.