Late One Path member Liam Payne bought a posthumous tribute on the 2025 BRIT Awards on Saturday, March 1, three and a half months after his dying.
Host Jack Whitehall launched the video bundle, saying, “It’s now time to take a second to recollect a really particular one that meant a lot to so most of the folks on this room and to tens of millions of you all over the world. Final October, we woke to the devastating information that Liam Payne had tragically handed away.”
Whitehall continued: “He achieved a lot within the brief time that he was on this earth and was not solely a supremely gifted musician however an extremely sort soul who touched the lives of everybody he got here into contact with. We have now so many superb reminiscences of Liam right here on the BRITs, so tonight we have fun his legacy and look again and keep in mind the outstanding Liam Payne.”
Then got here a two-minute montage with childhood images, household movies, and pictures from the singer’s time within the highlight — together with his world excursions with One Path and a meet-and-greet with Queen Elizabeth II — to the tune of Payne’s verse from the One Path music “Little Issues.”
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Payne died on October 16, 2024, at age 31, after falling from a lodge balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In a press launch shared final month, an area prosecutor’s workplace stated Payne had “alcohol concentrations of as much as 2.7 grams per liter” and “cocaine metabolites, methylecgonine, benzoylecgomine, cocaethylene, and the remedy sertraline” in his system on the time of his dying, per Individuals.
As Whitehall talked about, the late boy-bander singer was no stranger to the BRIT Awards. With One Path, Payne gained seven trophies on the British Phonographic Business’s annual awards present and was nominated for 5 others. In his solo profession, he bought three extra BRIT Award nominations, two for the music “Strip That Down” and one for “For You.” Payne was additionally a recipient of a number of BMI London Awards, a BMI Pop Award, a World Award, and a Teen Selection Award as a solo artist.
Following Saturday’s montage, fellow One Path member Louis Tomlinson wrote on X, “Thanks @BRITs. Stunning tribute. Miss you at all times, brother.”