At sixteen, he entered a talent contest, now he rules the music charts. Harry Styles will perform in Prague | iRADIO
Actor, composer, fashion icon, but above all singer. British artist Harry Styles started working as one of the five members of the boy band One Direction, but after the end of the band in 2016, he went his own way. The pretty face from the boy band partially got rid of the labels already with their eponymous album in 2017, but they definitely won critics over with their next albums Fine Line and Harry’s House. On Friday, he will perform in Prague’s O2 arena.
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In 2010, then sixteen-year-old Harry auditioned for the seventh series of the British TV singing competition The X Factor. When asked about himself, he answered the judges: “I work in a bakery.” He sang the song Isn’t She Lovely by Stevie Wonder and made it to the next round.
One direction
During the competition, four other contestants his age were eliminated from the boys category: Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik. They formed a group, named One Direction at Harry’s suggestion, and competed together. They ended up in third place in the competition.
One of the competition’s judges took Simon Cowel under his wing, with whose companies Syco Records signed the band to a recording contract worth two million pounds. In 2011 they began recording their debut album and embarked on The X Factor tour, playing to over half a million fans across the UK.
Their debut single What Makes You Beautiful was released in August 2011 and quickly became a worldwide hit. It topped the music charts in several countries. Album Up All Night was the first album by a British group to top the US charts.
Their next four albums were also successful worldwide. One Direction became the first in history, i.e. the first four records to debut at number one in the US charts.
And that left four
In March 2015, during the On The Road Again tour, Zayn Malik announced that he was leaving the group. He justified his departure by saying that he wants to be a normal twenty-two-year-old person who has the right to relax and not be the center of attention.
Nevertheless, the group continued without him. The quartet released another album, Made In The AM, and embarked on their last tour together. They then announced that I would be taking a break that was supposed to last 18 months, until now of course she didn’t finish.
Fans speculated about the group’s return in connection with its ten-year anniversary in 2020. However, the comeback did not come and none of the group members even hinted at it.
Solo career
In February 2016, he signed a Style contract with Columbia Records and began recording his first solo album in the fall. The single Sign of the Times, which was released in April 2017, topped the UK chart of the best-selling music singles in Great Britain. Rolling Stone magazine named it the best song of 2017.
The Harry Styles album debuted at number one in the UK, Australia, USA and many other countries.
The next album, called Fine Line, was a huge success not only among fans, but also among music critics. Styles received several nominations for music awards, including the Brit Awards and the Grammys.
So far, the last album called Harry’s House was released this May. His lead single As It Was debuted at the top of the UK and US charts and became his second solo number one single in the countries. The record also debuted at the top of the UK and US charts as the fastest selling record of 2022 so far.
Harry Styles is currently on the Love on Tour and on Friday he gets off in Prague’s O2 arena. Fans will see the concert two years later than planned. The tour was postponed twice due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Like Harry, the other members of One Direction also went on their own journey. Each of them managed to release a substantial album and stay at the top of the charts. However, Styles’ success is the most stable and the biggest.
One Direction were and remain one of the most successful and best-selling boy bands of all time. They have sold 70 million records worldwide since their debut. In 2018, their first song What Makes You Beautiful crossed one billion views on Youtube.
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