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Harry Styles (born 1 February 1994) is an English pop singer for the boy band One Direction.

Early Life
Styles was raised in Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, England, where he attended Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School. He was born to Anne Cox (née Selley) and Des Styles  and has an older sister, Gemma. Styles' parents divorced when he was seven and his mother later remarried. As a sixteen-year-old he worked part-time at the W. Mandeville Bakery in Holmes Chapel.

One Direction
After auditioning as a solo member for the seventh series of the British televised singing competition The X Factor, Styles was selected to be a founding member of the band One Direction.

The band finished the show in third place while amassing a large fan following. They were signed to Simon Cowell's Syco Entertainment in 2010. One Direction released their first album, Up All Night, in 2011, followed by their second, Take Me Home, in 2012. . One Direction: This Is Us, a documentary about the band directed by Morgan Spurlock, was released in August 2013. The film grossed more than $30 million worldwide its first weekend in theaters.

Their third album, Midnight Memories, will be released on 25 November 2013.