Exit first solo album Harry Styles a, key participant " One Direction” and the author of most of the group’s repertoire, have been waiting for a long time - the entire year and a half that has passed since the announcement of the suspension of the group’s functioning. During this time, our own solo projects Almost all of Harry's colleagues managed to introduce themselves.
Styles' first live solo performance took place on April 7 on Jimmy Fallon's Saturday Night Live show and turned out to be a complete triumph for the artist. The debut single “Sign Of The Times” was released following the broadcast, Australia and Great Britain.
For the release of the album, the artist prepared a video for the same composition. The video was filmed in Scotland. Harry wanted to present his debut brightly, so he agreed to a rather extreme and dangerous plot - in the video he had to soar above the ground. It seemed to him quite appropriate to reveal complex meaning composition dedicated to difficult events in a person’s life.
The presentation of the video took place on May 12, ahead of the start of album sales. In just two days since its release, the video collected almost 8 million views on YouTube. "This is the song I'm most proud of," Styles told the BBC. He also said that he recorded the entire album while he was in Jamaica, where he spent two months almost completely alone.
The style of the compositions released by Styles is quite different from the style of “One Direction”, but the singer’s fans clearly do not mind - the album immediately after its release took leading positions in the charts in a dozen countries.
In July 2017, Harry will make his red carpet debut in a new role. He played the lead role in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk. The film tells the story of the rescue of three hundred thousand soldiers during the Dunkirk operation, which took place at the beginning of World War II.
Sign of the Times
Sign of the Times
Just stop your crying
Just stop crying.
It's a sign of the times
This is a sign of the times.
Welcome to the final show
Welcome to the final concert!
Hope you"re wearing your best clothes
I hope you're wearing your best outfit.
You can"t bribe the door on your way to the sky
You can't buy yourself a pass to heaven.
You look pretty good down here
You're looking pretty good down here
But you ain't really good
But you're not okay.
The bullets
From bullets...
Why are we always stuck and running from the bullets?
Why do we always get stuck and run from bullets?
The bullets
From bullets...
Chorus:
Just stop your crying
Just stop crying
It's a sign of the times
It's a sign of the times
We gotta get away from here
We need to get out of here
We gotta get away from here
We need to get out of here.
Just stop your crying
Just stop crying
It will be alright
Everything will be fine.
They told me that the end is near
I was told the end was near.
We gotta get away from here
We need to get out of here.
Just stop crying
Just stop crying
Have the time of your life
Take everything from life.
Breaking through the atmosphere
Breaking through the atmosphere -
And things are pretty good from here
From here everything looks pretty good.
Remember everything will be alright
Remember that everything will be alright.
We can meet again somewhere
We can meet again somewhere
Somewhere far away from here
Somewhere far from here.
If we never learn, we have been here before
What if we never find out that we've been here before?
Why are we always stuck and running from the bullets?
Why do we always get stuck and run from bullets?
The bullets
From bullets...
We never learn, we have been here before
We'll never know we've been here before.
Why are we always stuck and running from the bullets?
Why do we always get stuck and run from bullets?
The bullets
From bullets...
Chorus:
If we never learn, we have been here before
What if we never find out that we've been here before?
Why are we always stuck and running from the bullets?
Why do we always get stuck and run from bullets?
The bullets
From bullets...
We never learn, we have been here before
We'll never know we've been here before.
Why are we always stuck and running from the bullets?
Why do we always get stuck and run from bullets?
The bullets
From bullets...
We don't talk enough
We don't say anything
We should open up
We should be more open
Before it "s all too much
Until there was too much.
Will we ever learn?
Will we ever learn this?
We've been here before
We've been here before
It's just what we know
That's all we know.
Stop your crying baby
Just stop crying baby
It's a sign of the times
This is a sign of the times.
We gotta get away (5 times)
Need to clean up
We got to, we got to (3 times)
Needed, needed
Translation: West from Odessa
© Linguistic laboratory "Amalgam"
About
Biography
Harry Edward Styles (born February 1, 1994 in Holmes Chapel, Worcestershire) - English crooner and actor, gained fame thanks to his participation in the show “The X Factor” in 2010 and participation in the group “One Direction”. Harry showed from early childhood musical abilities. The first song he learned was "The Girl of My Best Friend".
Biography
Harry Edward Styles (born February 1, 1994 in Holmes Chapel, Worcestershire) is an English pop singer and actor, who gained fame thanks to his participation in the show “The X Factor” in 2010 and participation in the group.
Harry showed musical talent from early childhood. The first song he learned was "The Girl of My Best Friend." best friend"). Stiles says Presley influenced his musical tastes.
When the boy was seven years old, his parents divorced. He, his mother and older sister Gemma moved to live in the village. Stiles had a hard time with the breakup of his family and was very happy when his mother remarried. By this time Harry had become a soloist school group"White Eskimo", which he himself organized. The band won the local Battle of the Bands Competition. After leaving school, Harry decided not to continue his studies, but went to work part-time in a bakery.
In 2010, Styles took part in the television show “The X Factor”. Soon Harry had to leave the project without passing the competition, but he was included in the composition vocal group, which he later came up with the name “One Direction”. In addition to him, the group included Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and , who came to the competition separately and had to drop out. Judge Nicole Scherzinger suggested that the contestants form a group.
In the show, One Direction took third place, and immediately after the show ended they signed a contract with Syco Records. In November 2011, One Direction's debut album, Up All Night, was released. The group released 4 more albums: “Take Me Home” (2012), “Midnight Memories” (2013), “Four” (2014) and “Made in the A.M.” (2015). Styles became the author of most of the repertoire.
On April 7, 2017, Harry Styles released his first solo single "Sign of the Times". This philosophical song is about life and death, about what needs to be done now. The song is written in the form of an address to the listener. Harry said that the reason for writing the song was Brexit - Britain's exit from the European Union. Immediately after its release, the song topped the charts in Australia and the UK.
Styles' solo album was released on May 12, 2017. The singer recorded all the material in 2 months, while in Jamaica completely alone. Immediately after its release, the album topped the British national charts, as well as the charts in the USA, Australia, Ireland and Canada.
In 2017, the film “Dunkirk” about the evacuation of English and French soldiers from France in 1940 was released on cinema screens. For Harry, it was his first acting job in a movie.
Styles chose the song (“Two Ghosts”) as the second single from his debut album. To celebrate this event, he arranged for his fans. The performance was filmed at the iconic Abbey Road Studios in London and was included in documentary"Harry Styles: Behind the Album", produced by the Apple Music service.
With a concert in San Francisco on September 19, 2017, Siles' first international concert tour began, which expanded significantly. All tickets were sold out almost instantly.
Discography:
"Harry Styles" (2017).
In the photo Harry and his mother
Harry Edward Styles, singer, member of the Anglo-Irish group One Direction, was born on February 1, 1994 in England in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. His father's name is Des Stiles and his mother's name is Anne Cox. Harry's parents divorced when he was seven years old. He and his older sister Gemma were raised by their mother, and after the divorce the family almost immediately moved to a place called Holmes Chapel, Cheshire. Relatively recently, Harry's mother remarried, Harry's stepfather's name is Robin Twist. At his mother's wedding, Harry stated that his stepfather was the best man for his mother.
As a child, Harry loved to sing; his favorite performer was Elvis Presley. Harry believes that this musician is among those who influenced his work.
In Holmes Chapel, Harry attended a comprehensive school. After school and on weekends, Harry worked at a local bakery. Before joining One Direction, Harry was the frontman of another music group- White Eskimo, which he created together with his school friends. The band consisted of himself, guitarist Hayden Morris, bassist Nick Kloof and drummer Will Sweeney.
The first step to fame was Harry’s independent participation in the Xfactor show - Styles performed Stevie Wonder’s song “Isn’t She Beautiful.” The judges were concerned: they thought Harry wouldn't last too long on the show. Before, by their decision, Harry became part of Group One Direction (the judges decided that the young singer would work more productively in the group), he performed the Oasis song “Stop Crying Your Heart Out”.
Most don't know that long time, including the beginning of it musical career, Harry suffered from stage fright: before big performances, Stiles was often nervous, to the point of forgetting the words of a song on stage; there are also cases when he vomited right on stage!
Some interesting facts about Harry Styles
- Harry's zodiac sign is Aquarius
- Harry has four nipples
- Harry said he doesn't think it's wrong or weird to date a fan, "because if you like someone, you like them. And if this is your fan, then there shouldn’t be any difference.”
- When Harry got his latest tattoo (a star), Zayn Malik held his hand
- When Harry was younger he did figure skating
- One of Harry's girlfriends was named Carolyn Flack, and she was 15 years older than him.
- His favorite films: "The Notebook", "Titanic" and "Love Actually"
- The first word Harry spoke was the word "cat".
Singer and former lead singer of One Direction Harry Styles is going through a family drama: as it became known today, Harry's stepfather, 57-year-old Robin Twist, passed away earlier this week. The musician's stepfather has been battling cancer for the past few years.
Robin Twist married Harry Styles' mother Anna in 2013. Before this they for long years lived in a civil marriage. It was Robin who raised Harry and his sister after they biological father left home. In his autobiography, Harry Styles: Every Piece of Me, Harry talked about how much Robin influenced his personality.
We are sad to announce that Harry's stepfather, Robin Twist, passed away this week. The family asks for time to be alone,
This is stated in the official statement of the musician’s family.
Meanwhile, not so long ago, Harry experienced a difficult episode in his personal life. According to Page Six, the musician's girlfriend Tess Ward, a food blogger and author of the cookbook The Naked Diet, left him for her ex-boyfriend. Fortunately, Harry and Tess’ romance did not last long, only 1.5 months.
Tess met her ex-boyfriend and feelings flared up between them again. She had to explain herself for her affair with Harry, but her lover forgave her,
Insiders report.
Tess Ward and Harry Styles
Harry Styles
Singer Date of birth February 1 (Aquarius) 1994 (25) Place of birth Redditch Instagram @harrystyles
Harry Edward Styles - British singer and actor. He is the youngest member of One Direction. guy with early years interested in music. The subject of his admiration were his talented predecessors - Mick Jagger, Elvis Presley, etc. He adopted their style of performance, tried to imitate his idols in everything, and gradually developed his own style. Now he is very famous himself. Talented, handsome and successful, he boldly goes through life, invariably delighting his fans.
Biography of Harry Styles
Harry was born on February 1, 1994 in the English city of Redditch. He is the second child of Ann Cox and Desmond Steeley. When Harry was 7 years old, his parents filed for divorce. As a result, the future idol of millions moved with his mother and sister to the small settlement of Holmes Chapel (Cheshire County). The boy had a hard time hearing about his parents' separation. He experienced this painful and difficult breakup for a long time. His mother later married Robin Twist.
Harry liked the music early age. The first song I learned was the hit “The Girl of My Best Friend” by the famous Elvis Presley. With school friends, our hero organized his own quartet. He became a soloist musical ensemble. The first victory with the song “Summer of 69” among local amateur groups confirmed Styles’ intention to become a singer. After school, the teenager worked part-time in a bakery and at the same time improved his vocals. His brilliant career was just beginning.
In 2010, Harry Styles decided to participate in the casting of the super popular British project “The X Factor”. He didn't pass the casting solo artist. But the competition judge, Nicole Scherzinger, former soloist The Pussycat Dolls invited him and several other guys to form a boy band. This is how One Direction was created. Harry came up with the name of the group.
The group consisted of Harry Styles and four other members. At the finale of the show, the group secured 3rd place and signed a contract with a recording studio.
After the end of the British Got Talent show, the participants were expected to go on tour. Then hard work began on the debut disc of the boy band “Up All Night”. The album was released in late autumn 2011 and made Music band out of five guys famous. In December of the same year, One Direction toured England. In the spring of 2012, the tour touched Australia and North America. Tickets sold out a couple of months before the performance day. Harry's group was extremely popular among teenagers.
The wave of popularity allowed the musicians to release DVDs with recordings of concerts. Several books have been published. For example, "Forever Young" and "Dare to Dream". They talk about success after the show. This was followed by several high-profile victories: an award at the Brit Awards (2012) and prizes in several Teen Choice Awards categories.
The first album was immediately followed by the second album “Take me Home”. In 2012, the disc was released. After that, the guys went on another tour, which raised several tens of millions of dollars. In the winter of 2013, the film One Direction: This Is Us was released. During 3 days of sales, the number of copies of the tape sold exceeded 260 thousand. Two more albums were later released: Midnight Memories and Four. Last title“Four” was chosen for a reason – one of the members left the boy band.
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Personal life of Harry Styles
Harry is known for his many romantic adventures. He is free from marriage. When the singer turned 15, he began a relationship with Felicity Skinner. They lasted about a year. The girl always spoke well of Styles.
While participating in The X Factor, he began a relationship with TV presenter Caroline Flack. The chosen one was 15 years older than Harry - this became the subject of discussion among many of the performer’s fans. The couple was together less than a year. Later, she began a short relationship with model Eleanor Calder. From the beginning of winter 2012 until January 2013, his girlfriend was Taylor Swift.
The singer was credited with relationships with Kendall Jenner and several other celebrities. On this moment Harry is dating Liam Payne.
British singer and actor. Member of a famous English group One Direction, formed as part of the seventh season of the popular British music talent show The X Factor.
Harry Styles / Harry Styles. Biography
Harry Edward Styles born February 1, 1994 in Redditch (Worcestershire, England) into a family Ann Cox(Selli) and Desmond Styles, who worked in the financial sector. Many of Harry's ancestors were farmers in Norfolk. When the boy turned seven, he, his mother and older sister Gemma settled in the town of Holmes Chapel in Cheshire, where he studied at secondary school. Subsequently, Harry had an older half-brother Mike - a son Robin Twista, whom the mother of the future singer married.
Since childhood, Harry had a passion for music; his work was influenced by Elvis Presley, Freddie Mercury, The group Rolling Stones and The Beatles. At school, he organized the group White Eskimo, which won the Battle of the Bands Competition, where amateur teenage groups participated. After graduating from high school, 16-year-old Styles took a part-time job at a candy store in Holmes Chapel and developed his vocal talent along the way.
Harry Styles / Harry Styles. Creative path
In 2010, Harry took part in the popular British music talent show The X Factor, but as a solo artist he was unable to achieve success. However, the project judge Nicole Scherzinger invited the guy to join a group with other contestants - Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik. This is how a boy band called One Direction. The team, which took 3rd place on the show, soon signed a contract with Cowell's Syco label and recorded their first album, Up All Night.
In 2011, the collection became a real bestseller in Britain, and in 2012 – in the USA. Six months after the birth of the first album, the group released their second record - “Take Me Home”, which turned out to be no less popular. In 2013, the guys went on a world tour in support of their second album. Then the albums Midnight Memories (2013), Four (2014) and Made in the A.M. were released. (2015). At the beginning of 2016, the band members went on sabbatical.
Harry Styles, like his other colleagues One Direction, also decided to build solo career. In March 2017, the artist announced his debut single “ Sign of the Times", which soon topped the charts in several countries. And his first full album, consisting of 10 songs and called “ Harry Styles", released on May 12.
Before this, Styles managed to make his debut in a feature film, receiving in 2016 one of the main roles in the war drama directed by Christopher Nolan “Dunkirk”, which premiered in July 2017.
Christopher Nolan on Styles: “When we assembled the ensemble, we already had famous names– Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Cillian Murphy. But for the roles of the guys on the beach, we wanted to choose young, unknown actors. Undoubtedly, Harry cannot be called unknown, but he had never been an actor before. That's why he auditioned with us. Literally thousands of young actors participated in the casting. But he had what we needed."
By the way, film critics praised Styles’ acting, and he himself was at the premiere of “ Dunkirk"in London admitted that he does not intend to develop a film career. Probably the reason for such thoughts young musician was a large-scale world tour starting in the fall of 2017, bringing together 50 concerts on five continents.
Harry Styles / Harry Styles. Personal life
For several months Harry had romantic relationship with food blogger and cookbook author of The Naked Diet Tess Ward, however, in early June 2017, she left the musician for her ex-boyfriend.
Harry Styles / Harry Styles. Filmography
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Dunkirk (2017). Alex
Saturday evening at live/ Saturday Night Live (TV series 2017)
One Direction: The TV Special (2014, short)
iCarly / iCarly (TV series 2012), Harry Styles