Liam Payne. Karwai Tang/WireImage
The Recording Academy remembered Liam Payne in the course of the 2025 Grammys on Sunday, February 2, almost 5 months after his dying.
Footage of Payne throughout his One Route days was proven on the high of the In Memoriam section. His voice could possibly be heard as music performed within the background.
“We by no means anticipated any of this to occur,” Payne stated, earlier than Chris Martin began singing. “We now have carried out some wonderful issues.”
Payne was launched into fame alongside Harry Kinds, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik, who met when One Route was shaped on U.Okay.’s The X Issue in 2010. They launched 4 albums through the years earlier than Malik’s departure from the group in March 2015. The remaining 4 members launched their fifth album later that yr earlier than happening an indefinite hiatus in December 2015.
The 2025 Grammy Awards turned up the amount on music’s greatest night time. Trevor Noah returned to the Grammy Awards stage on Sunday, February 2, internet hosting the ceremony for the fifth yr in a row. New voices corresponding to Chappell Roan and Teddy Swims supplied stiff competitors for Grammys favorites — together with Taylor Swift and Billie […]
Every member subsequently went their separate methods, kicking off solo singing careers through the years, however displaying one another main assist. Previous to his sudden October 2024 dying, Payne was an enormous champion for his former bandmates when it got here to their music releases.
Whereas Kinds, Malik, Tomlinson and Horan weren’t in attendance throughout Sunday’s awards present, the remaining 4 members briefly reunited at Payne’s November 2024 funeral in England.
“[Liam’s death] was a wake-up name for all of them. Prior, they stored in contact sporadically however didn’t have shut friendships in any respect,” a supply advised Us Weekly solely in December 2024. “They’re all nonetheless mourning however are checking in on one another and really feel nearer than they’ve in years. It introduced them again collectively.”
Payne died at age 31 after falling from a third-floor balcony on the CasaSur Palermo Resort in Buenos Aires. The day following Payne’s dying, Kinds, Malik, Tomlinson and Horan launched a joint assertion to mourn their former bandmate. (Every singer additionally shared separate tributes on their very own social media pages.)
One Route alum Liam Payne died on October 16, 2024, on the age of 31. That night, Us Weekly confirmed Payne had fallen to his dying from a third-floor balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The singer had sustained a cranial fracture and different critical accidents that have been too extreme for therapy. Native emergency responders […]
“We’re utterly devastated by the information of Liam’s passing. In time, and when everybody is ready to, there will probably be extra to say,” they stated on the time. “However for now, we are going to take a while to grieve and course of the lack of our brother, who we cherished dearly. The reminiscences we shared with him will probably be treasured perpetually. For now, our ideas are along with his household, his associates, and the followers who cherished him alongside us. We are going to miss him terribly. We love you Liam.”
A preliminary post-mortem acknowledged that Payne’s explanation for dying was “a number of traumas,” together with hemorrhages in his chest, cranium and stomach. It has additionally been broadly reported {that a} partial post-mortem discovered “pink cocaine” — a mixture of methamphetamine, ketamine and MDMA — together with cocaine, benzodiazepine and crack in Payne’s system on the time of his dying.
