One Direction by Lucie

One of last year’s success stories was the rise of One Direction capturing the ears and hearts of millions of girls around the world. Here is one of them, Lucie, who wanted to share her passion with all of us and she tells us about how the boys started their career and how One Direction was born.

This writing project was entirely initiated and completed by the student, based on her passion.

ONE DIRECTION
One Direction is a British boys band. There are five boys in this boys band: Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik.
All of them did an X Factor’s musical hearing, and got to the Bootcamp, but all of them failed.
Simon Cowell, an X Factor’s jury member, proposed them to become a band. The five boys finally accepted, and they became One Direction.
They did two albums: “Up all Night” and “Take Me Home”. Every boy writes songs.

Louis Tomlinson
Louis Tomlinson was born on the 24th December 1991, at Doncaster, in England. He is 21 and is the oldest member of the Band.
Louis did his first musical hearing with the song “Hey There Delilah”. For the Bootcamp, he sang “Make You Feel My Love”.
When he was about 16, he interpreted songs like, “Look After You” (The Fray), “Because Of You” (Ne-Yo), “Crawl” (Chris Brown), “Wonderwall” (Oasis) and “I Gotta Feeling” (Black Eyed Peas), that he published on his YouTube channel.


Liam Payne
Liam Payne was born on the 29th August 1993, at Wolverhampton, in England. He is 19.
When Liam was 14, he did his first musical hearing, but Simon Cowell thought that he was not ready to be a singer, so he asked him to come back two years later. Indeed, he came back at 16, with the song “Cry Me A River”. Then, he sang for the Bootcamp “Stop Crying Your Heart Out”.


Harry Styles
Harry Styles was born on the 1st February 1994, at Cheshire, in England. He is 18, and is the younger One Direction’s member.
Before presented himself to X Factor, Harry was the singer of the boys band “White Eskimo”.
He sang “Isn’t She Lovely” for his first musical hearing. He received two positive comments, and one negative. For the Bootcamp, he chose the song “Stop Crying Your Heart Out”, like Liam.


Niall Horan
Niall Horan was born on the 13th September 1993, at Mullingar, in Ireland. He is 19.
He’s playing guitar in a lot of songs of One Direction.
Niall was 17 when he presented himself to X Factor. He did his first musical hearing singing “I’m Yours”, but Simon Cowell told him that it wasn’t a good choice, so he sang “So sick”, and got to the Bootcamp. For this, he sang “Champagne Supernova”.


Zayn Malik
Zayn Malik was born on the 12 January 1993, at Bradford (his father is Pakistani and his mother is English). He is 19.
A first time, Zayn registered himself to X Factor, but he wasn’t very self-confident, and didn’t go to the musical hearing.
He registered himself a second time and went to X Factor with the song “Let Me Love You”. For the Bootcamp, he sang “Make You Feel My Love”, like Louis.

They won their first price on the 21st February 2012, “Brit Awards”, for the single “What Makes You Beautiful”.
Up today, they published three books: “One Direction: Forever Young”, “One Direction: The Official Annual 2012” and “Dare To Dream: Life as One Direction”.
We wish them more and more success for 2013 !!!!

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