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About Harry Styles

Harry Edward Styles was born February 1, 1994, in Redditch, Worcestershire, and raised primarily in the village of Holmes Chapel in the Cheshire countryside south of Manchester after his parents separated when he was around seven. He sang in school assemblies, joined a small local band called White Eskimo with friends from Holmes Chapel Comprehensive, and worked weekends at the W. Mandeville bakery in the village high street — a detail he has returned to in interviews more than once. The pivot point arrived in 2010 when he auditioned for the seventh series of The X Factor UK at sixteen with a Stevie Wonder cover; eliminated as a solo act in the bootcamp round, he and four other young hopefuls — Liam Payne, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, and Louis Tomlinson — were grouped together by the show's producers into One Direction. The group finished third on the series, signed to Syco Records, and across five years released five studio albums (Up All Night, Take Me Home, Midnight Memories, Four, and Made in the A.M.) with hits including What Makes You Beautiful, Story of My Life, Drag Me Down, and Best Song Ever. They headlined stadium tours, sold out Madison Square Garden, the O2 Arena, Wembley Stadium, and the Tokyo Dome, and broke streaming and chart records that had not previously been associated with a group operating that young. When Malik left in early 2015 and the four remaining members agreed to a hiatus at the end of the Made in the A.M. cycle, Styles signed a solo deal with Columbia Records and went into a Jamaican villa with Jeff Bhasker, Mitch Rowland, Tyler Johnson, and the small core band that has stayed with him since. Harry Styles, his self-titled solo debut, arrived in May 2017 with Sign of the Times as the lead single and announced a complete pivot from group-era pop into seventies-leaning rock and ballad work. Fine Line in December 2019 produced Adore You, Watermelon Sugar (a US Hot 100 number one and Grammy winner), and the title track's slow-burn six-minute ballad. Harry's House in May 2022 was the breakthrough into universal mainstream — As It Was, Late Night Talking, Music for a Sushi Restaurant, Daydreaming, and Matilda — and won the Grammy Album of the Year at the 2023 ceremony. His film work began with a substantial supporting role in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk in 2017 and continued with Olivia Wilde's Don't Worry Darling and the period drama My Policeman, both released in 2022. The fashion practice — Gucci collaborations under Alessandro Michele, a December 2020 US Vogue cover in a Gucci dress that made him the first solo male cover subject in the magazine's history, Met Gala co-chair credits, and the Pleasing beauty line launched in late 2021 — has run alongside the music. He has been publicly reticent about specifics of his romantic life and broadly described himself in fluid terms around gender expression. He remains signed to Columbia and Erskine Records, lives between London and Los Angeles, and has not confirmed any specific touring or album follow-up to Harry's House at the time of writing — hedge any forward-looking specifics accordingly.

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