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One Direction : How Did One Direction Start?

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How did One Direction begin? It all started in 2010 on a TV singing show in the UK called Xfactor. Five individual guys audition not knowing what the next couple of weeks will bring. Season 7 started off and all five members Niall, Zayn, Liam, Harry and Louis kicked it off by going to boot camp. Through boot camp they had to learn how to dance and team up with other people to go to the next round. They all had difficulties dancing, but Zayn had it the worse to where he wanted to quit and Simon Cowell convinced him otherwise. At the end of boot camp, they were all sent home crushing all of them. As they were about to leave they were called back with another set of girls and were told they’ll get a second chance as a band. As a band,
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Sadly, during the OTRA tour on March 31 st, 2015 Zayn deicides to leave the band due to stress.

With him leaving caused fans to become upset with him. One even said, “ZAYN
LEAVING THE BAND LITERALLY RIPPED A PART OF MY SOUL AWAY OF ME” and
“PRAY FOR ZAYN GIRLS THEY NEED IT.” (Schwartz) While everyone was still in shock, the other four continued on with the tour and finished it out. Later the four of them released an album called Made in The A.M., that was good, but not the same without Zayn. In January, He released his first single as a solo artist it was called Pillowtalk which was a hit, then he dropped his album in March called Mind of Mine. The remainder of the group decided to take a “break” and do solo things in their life now. ”Many months after Zayn had scored a chart-topper with
“Pillowtalk,” Irish singer Niall Horan became the second 1D vocalist to reach the highest region as a solo man. His first cut under his own name, the One Direction-soundalike “This Town,” made it all the way to No. 9 in the U.K., while it peaked slightly higher in his home country, stalling at No. 6. Recent follow-up single “Slow Hands,” which sees the singer going in a sexier direction, has yet to grow to its full potential.” (McIntyre) At the end of 2016 Louis released his first single and dedicated it to the passing of his mother on the finale of Xfactor.

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In 2017, Harry releases his first single in April and continues on by releasing a full album in May. Also during that

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