Harry Styles is a British singer. His star lit up quite recently. He became a finalist of the popular music project The X Factor. In addition, Harry for a long time was the lead singer of the famous band One Direction.
Childhood and youth Harry Styles
Harry Styles was born on February 1, 1994. His homeland was the small town of Redditch, located in the northeast of the ceremonial county of Worcestershire (England). Harry is the second child in the family.
In the early 2000s, Harry's parents divorced. The boy, along with his mother and older sister, was forced to move to the village parish of Holmes Chapel (Cheshire). A little later, my mother remarried. Soon the family grew by one person.
As a child, Harry began to take an active interest in music. The idol of a teenager was, is and will be Elvis Presley. In his youth, the guy memorized the words of the song The Girl of My Best Friend.
At school, the boy studied very mediocre. Harry attended the Holmes Chape school. While attending school, the young man was more interested in the opportunity to create his own group than in knowledge.
As a schoolboy, Harry created the White Eskimo band. In the group, he took the position of frontman and vocalist. The band consisted of guitarist Hayden Morris, bassist Nick Kloof and drummer Will Sweeney.
Harry really enjoyed working in the group, but this did not make his wallet thicker. In parallel with schooling and the development of the group, Stiles worked part-time at a local bakery.
The new team performed at school concerts and local discos. They were real favorites of the public. Soon the musicians won the Battle of the Bands Competition, which was attended by amateur teen bands.
After graduating from high school, Harry did not plan to enter a higher educational institution. The young man focused his attention on the development of the group, and also worked on vocals.
Performing on stage and working in a group helped the teenager understand that he likes to perform on stage, and music is his calling. By the way, the young man was the frontman of the quartet and its author of the name, and a little later he came up with the same “juicy” name for the current One Direction group.
The creative path of Harry Styles
2010 turned Harry's life upside down. The musician decided to go to the casting of one of the most popular television shows "X-Factor". Harry performed the songs Isn't She Beautiful by Stevie Wonder and Stop Crying Your Heart Out by Oasis for the jury and the audience.
Harry didn't make the right impression on the judges. The jury did not see the guy as a strong solo artist. Nicole Scherzinger made an offer to Stiles - to team up with other members: Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik.
Actually, this is how a new musical group appeared. Harry invited the musicians to unite under the name One Direction. As a result, the team in the show The X Factor took an honorable 3rd place.
Signing with Syco Records
After the end of the project, the team was already of great importance in the music industry. Soon the recording studio Syco Records, which belonged to Simon Cowell, offered the group a contract.
It was a step that helped the newcomers to take the top of the musical Olympus. The following year, the band's discography was replenished with the debut collection Up All Night. After this event, the guys woke up famous.
The composition What Makes You Beautiful from the new collection topped the prestigious music charts, and the album became the first in the famous Billboard 200 rating.
Two more tracks Gotta Be You and One Thing entered the top 10 of the UK charts. They soon signed with Columbia Records.
In 2012, the band's discography was replenished with the second studio album, Take Me Home. The "pearl" of the new disc was the track Live While We're Young, which hit the top 10 of all world charts.
A year later, the musicians pleased the fans with their third studio album, which was called Midnight Memories. The album repeated the success of previous works. The collection took the 1st position in the Billboard 200. One Direction is the first band in the history of music, whose first three collections started from the maximum position in the ranking.
In 2014, the musicians presented their fourth studio album, which received a very symbolic name Four. The album peaked at number 1 on the Billboard 200.
Harry Styles Big Tour
In support of the fourth studio album, the guys went on a big tour, On the Road Again Tour. Concerts were held until 2015. Not all members of the group withstood the intense tour. At the end of the year, Zayn Malik was forced to leave the team. He took up a solo career.
Interesting but true - Harry Styles can't play musical instruments. He failed to master classical guitar and piano. However, this "misunderstanding" did not prevent him from shining on stage.
Harry was rightfully considered the band's most stylish singer. In 2013, he was named the most handsome member of the group by the MTV Europe Music Awards. At the same time, he was awarded the British Fashion Awards in the category "British Style by Vodafone".
Harry Styles solo career
After Zane left the group, Harry Styles also thought about a solo career. The last work of the band, in which the musician took part, is the album Made in the AM, which was released in 2015. A week after the start of sales, the new album went to number 1 in the UK.
Harry Styles ended his contract with the producer in 2016. Fans did not even suspect that the reason for Harry's departure from One Direction was the unwillingness to build a solo career, but strained relations with other members of the group.
Later, Harry spoke about the fact that recently the relationship between the musicians has become unbearable. During the tour, the musician even demanded a separate plane. Styles tried to minimize communication with the lead singers of One Direction.
Immediately after leaving the group, Styles began to build a solo career. Some time later, Harry presented a video clip for the musical composition Sign of the Times. The single was successful. In the first week, he took the leading position in the prestigious music charts of European countries. The musician presented his debut album Harry Styles a month later.
Harry proved himself not only as a talented singer, but also as a film actor. He starred in Christopher Nolan's military drama Dunkirk. In the movie, he played the military soldier Alex. For the sake of the role, Harry sacrificed his luxurious hair. Instead, the celebrity appeared before the audience with a “under zero” hairstyle.
The singer donated his hair to the Little Princess Trust. The company was engaged in the manufacture of wigs for children with cancer.
Personal life Harry Styles
Harry's personal life is full of bright events. However, the artist still focused on the fact that at this stage of his life, creativity occupies the 1st position.
The girls with whom there was an affair have always been associated with show business. When Styles was on The X Factor, he dated flamboyant TV presenter Caroline Flack. Interestingly, the girl was 14 years older than the young man. Soon the couple broke up. Harry talked about how he and Caroline remained on friendly terms.
Harry Styles has been in a relationship with country singer Taylor Swift for several months. The singer admitted to reporters that he sought the location of Taylor for about a year. Young people broke up due to employment.
Harry's next lover was model Cara Delevingne. There were no serious relationships. In 2013, the singer's heart was taken by Kendall Jenner, the younger half-sister of Kim Kardashian. The relationship of the lovers lasted for three years. It was a vibrant romance that was accompanied by scandals, expenses and reunions.
For a year, Harry was in a relationship with Camille Rowe, a French model for Victora's Secret. But it didn't work out with this girl either. Stiles spent more time on tour than with a new lover.
In 2018, the singer surprised the “fans” by performing the song Medicine at a solo concert in Paris. After the performance of the track, music lovers began to parse the words of the song into “pieces”.
The lyrics were hailed by fans and music critics as Harry Styles' coming out.
Harry Styles now
In 2018, Harry Styles appeared in a Gucci ad. In addition, the young man tried his hand as a journalist by posting an interview with Timothée Chalamet on the pages of the British magazine iD. In 2019, the performer talked about taking a temporary break.
Harry broke his silence in 2020. The singer presented his second studio album Fine Line. The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 1, selling half a million copies. Fine Line's music has been described by critics as rock, pop and pop rock.
May 2022 marked the release of the Harry's House album. Recall that this is the third album in the singer's discography, and also the most anticipated pop album of this year. Shortly before the release, the singer released a cool "little thing" As It Was with a clip from Tanya Muinho. For about 3 weeks, the track did not leave the leading line in one of the country's music charts.
“I recommend listening to the new album. It got very personal. Probably the pandemic affected me. I recorded a record with the support of a small team in a small room, ”said Harry.
