He failed to progress to the "Boys" category at the end of the final bootcamp stage of the competition at Wembley Arena, London, in July 2010. He then sang " Hey There Delilah" by the Plain White T's and received three yeses from the judges, sending him through to bootcamp. He sang a rendition of " Elvis Ain't Dead" by Scouting for Girls before Cowell requested he sing another song. In 2010, Tomlinson auditioned for the seventh series of the singing competition The X Factor in front of main judges Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh and guest judge Nicole Scherzinger. Tomlinson (right) with One Direction bandmates Harry Styles (left) and Liam Payne (center) in the X Factor Live Tour in Glasgow. He was determined to return the following year. Tomlinson auditioned for The X Factor in 2009, but failed to progress past the producer's audition. Tomlinson has cited this experience as motivation for him to audition for The X Factor. When Tomlinson was 14, he was kicked out of a band and replaced with a new vocalist. He had small parts in an ITV drama film If I Had You and BBC's Waterloo Road. After Fat Friends, he attended an acting school in Barnsley. Tomlinson, along with two of his siblings, had extra roles in Fat Friends. Taking the lead role of Danny Zuko in the Hall Cross musical production of Grease motivated him to audition for The X Factor. At Hall Cross, Tomlinson appeared in several musical productions, which gave him a growing sense of ambition and determination. He had a number of jobs, including at a Vue cinema and at Doncaster Rovers football stadium as a waiter in the hospitality suites. He failed his first year of A levels at the Hayfield School and ended up going to Hall Cross School and starting his A levels again. Tomlinson attended The Hayfield School and later Hall Cross School (now Hall Cross Academy), both located in Doncaster. He also has three other half-siblings a younger paternal half-sister, Georgia, and twins Doris and Ernest (born 2014) from Poulston's relationship with Dan Deakin, whom she later married. He was raised with four younger half-sisters Charlotte, Félicité (2000–2019), and twins Phoebe and Daisy from Poulston's marriage to Mark. He is estranged from his father and later took on his then stepfather Mark Tomlinson's surname, legally changing his name to Louis William Tomlinson. Louis Troy Austin was born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England to Johannah "Jay" Poulston and Troy Austin, who split up when he was a toddler. 2.5 2019–2022: Walls and Away From Home Festivals.2.4 2015–2018: Television endeavours and first solo projects.His debut solo album, Walls, was released in January 2020. The following year, Tomlinson released the singles " Two of Us", " Kill My Mind", " We Made It", " Don't Let It Break Your Heart" and " Walls". When his mentee Dalton Harris won the competition, Tomlinson became the first former contestant of the show to become the winning mentor. In 2018, Tomlinson appeared on the fifteenth series of The X Factor as a judge and a mentor of the "Boys" category. In the same year, he appeared on Debrett's 2017 list of the most influential people in the UK. In 2017, Tomlinson released " Back to You" with American singer Bebe Rexha (which was certified platinum in the USA and the UK) and " Miss You". It peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart and was certified platinum in the UK. One Direction went on to become one of the best-selling boy bands of all time.įollowing the group's hiatus in 2016, Tomlinson released " Just Hold On" as a debut solo single in December 2016. After being eliminated as a solo performer, he was placed into a group with four other contestants, forming One Direction. Tomlinson began his career appearing in television dramas before he auditioned on the British music competition series The X Factor in 2010. He rose to fame as a member of the boy band One Direction. Louis William Tomlinson ( / ˈ l uː i ˈ t ɒ m l ɪ n s ə n/ born Louis Troy Austin 24 December 1991) is an English singer and songwriter.
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