They briefly dated for four months before calling it quits. Zayn then dated X Factor star Rebecca Ferguson despite the six years of the age gap between the two of them. Image Source: usmagazineĭuring his time in X Factor, Zayn Malik dated fellow contestant Geneva Lane, but things didn’t go very well for the both of them and they ended up having an ugly breakup. He even actively supported the Black Lives Matter Movement.
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He donated £10,000 to a GoFundMe website for a little girl’s medical expenses. He became the ambassador of the British Asian Trust and donated his guitar to Kean’s Children fund in Dundee. Which in return pushed him to do a lot of charity work. Zayn did not have an easy time in school, because of his mixed heritage. The English singer then returned to music in 2021 with quite a long gap with a song called “Vibez” which is a part of his album “Nobody Is Listening”. He then went on to release a cover song for Aladdin “A whole new world” with Zhavia Ward. The singer-songwriter returned in 2016 with the release of “Pillowtalk” from his solo debut album “Mind of Mine”. Zayn departed from the boy band in 2015, his last performance with the band was on March 18, 2015.
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One Direction went on to be a global success with its albums: Up all night (2011), Take Me Home (2012), Midnight Memories (2013), and Four (2014) topped the charts in many countries. As soon as the season ended the group signed with Simon Cowell’s famous record label Syco records. Although they finished in third place in the finals of X Factor that season. Judges Simon Cowell and Nicole Scherzinger grouped him with other four contestants: Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson, to form the very famous One Direction, also popularly known as 1D. CAREER:Ī 17 years old Zayn competed in X Factor. He even wanted to be an English teacher but life had other plans for him. It would not be wrong to say this was the laying stone to his career ahead. As a young boy he was very keen on music and singing, so he took up a performing arts course and appeared in multiple school productions. He grew up in an Islamic household, although he no longer identifies as a Muslim. He did his primary schooling in Lower Fields Primary High school. He grew up with three sisters Doniya, Waliyha, and Safaa in East Bowling. His father is a Pakistani and mother a British-Irish.
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Zayn Javadd Malik was born on 12th January 1993 to Yaser Malik and Tricia Brannan Malik in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.