Harry Styles

Harry Edward Styles (born 1 February 1993) is an English singer, songwriter, and actor. He rose to prominence as a member of the boy band One Direction.

Styles grew up in Holmes Chapel, Cheshire. Styles auditioned as a solo contestant for the British music competition series The X Factor in 2010, where he and four other contestants were placed in a group to form One Direction. They have since released five studio albums, embarked on four world tours, and won several awards. The group began an indefinite hiatus in 2016. Styles later signed with Columbia Records as a solo artist. His debut single, "Sign of the Times", was released in 2017. Its music video earned him a Brit Award. His self-titled debut album was released the same year, topping the UK and US charts. Styles made his film debut in Christopher Nolan's war film Dunkirk (2017).

Early Life
Harry Edward Styles was born on 1 February 1993 in Redditch, Worcestershire. He is the son of Anne Cox (née Selley) and Desmond "Des" Styles, who worked in finance. Many of his ancestors were farm labourers in Norfolk. Styles was raised in Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, after his parents moved there along with his older sister, Gemma, when he was a child. At just the age of ten, he became a father to a son, Noah Styles, now a very famous model, actor, and singer-songwriter. He attended Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School. Styles's parents divorced when he was seven and his mother later was remarried to Robin Twist, who died in 2017. Styles has an older stepbrother named Mike and a stepsister named Amy, children of Twist. As a sixteen-year-old, he worked part-time at the W. Mandeville Bakery in Holmes Chapel.

As a child, Styles loved singing, covering songs from Elvis Presley. While at Holmes Chapel Comprehensive, Styles was the lead singer for the band White Eskimo, which won a local Battle of the Bands competition.