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Zayn Malik
Pop SingerAbout
English singer and former member of the boyband One Direction. He left the band in March 2015 and released his debut album Mind of Mine, featuring the single "Pillowtalk," in March 2016. In 2018, he released his second album Icarus Falls, which included his hit "Dusk Till Dawn" featuring Sia.
Before Fame
Before pursuing a music career, he planned on becoming an English teacher. He tried out for The X Factor as a solo artist, but did not make the show, and was later added to One Direction by Simon Cowell.
Trivia
- In 2017, he won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Collaboration for his song "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" with Taylor Swift. He performed a cover version of the iconic song "A Whole New World" with Zhavia Ward for the soundtrack to the 2019 live-action film Aladdin.
Family Life
His parents, Yaser and Trisha Malik, raised him alongside his sisters, Doniya, Safaa and Waliyha. He dated X Factor contestant Rebecca Ferguson in 2010 and he was engaged to Little Mix singer Perrie Edwards for two years until they split in August 2015. In 2016, he began dating model Gigi Hadid. He and Hadid welcomed their first child together, a daughter named Khai, in September 2020. He and Hadid split in October 2021.
Associated With
He made a cameo in the 2018 film Ocean's 8 starring Rihanna and Dakota Fanning.
Quotes
"I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool."
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"I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in."
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"We didn't really expect to achieve anything outside of the UK, and it just went crazy. It's just crazy that people know our music. We're just humbled by it."
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"We needed to make a sound that's not gonna fit in with everything else - we wanted to make something that was completely unique and individual to us. We spent a lot of time trying to make a sound that was a One Direction sound. At first it was quite hard to do that, but I'm really happy with the sound."
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"I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy."
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"I'd call myself the mediator. I kind of just float around and do my own thing. I'm kind of chilled out, laid back."
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"I'm a massive fan of Drake, and we walked right past him. He's too cool to be clapping One Direction though."
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"If you meet a girl, you meet a girl. It's normal, so if you exchange numbers, whatevs, it's cool."
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"Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games."
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