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Early Life
Harry Edward Styles was born on February 1, 1994, in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, in
the West Midlands region of England. His parents, Des and Anne, divorced when he was
7 years old. He and his sister Gemma were brought up by their mother in the town of
Holmes Chapel in Cheshire. His mother was later remarried, to Robin Twist.
Styles attended Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School, where he and three of his friends
formed a band called White Eskimo. Styles was White Eskimo's lead singer, and the band
was popular enough to win a band competition at their school. After school and on
weekends, Styles worked at the W. Mandeville bakery in Holmes Chapel.

'The X Factor'
In 2010, when he was 16 years old, Harry competed in the seventh season of the
television show The X Factor, singing Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely" as his audition
song and Oasis' "Stop Crying Your Heart Out" in a later round. He was cut before the
finals, but in a surprise move, judges Nicole Scherzinger and Simon Cowell put him
together with fellow competitors Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn
Malik to form a new group act for the remainder of the competition.
Performing as One Direction (a name reportedly suggested by Styles), the five boys
became one of the most popular contenders in the X Factor finals that season. Although
they finished the competition in third place, they were immediately signed to Cowell's
Syco music label.
One Direction
Styles, the youngest member of One Direction, became a fan favorite for his curly hair,
wide smile and sweet-yet-naughty demeanor. He sang some of the lead vocals on the
band's first single, "What Makes You Beautiful," which was released in September 2011
in the United Kingdom. One Direction's debut album, Up All Night, was a best seller in
both the United Kingdom and the United States the following year. In another highlight
of 2012, Styles and the rest of One Direction performed at the Olympics closing
ceremony in London.
Styles went on to enjoy immense success with his bandmates, One Direction
following Up All Night with Take Me Home (2012), Midnight Memories (2013)
and Four (2014), all debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The group's final
album, Made in the A.M., just missed the cut by arriving at No. 2 in 2015, before the
band split for a lengthy hiatus.
Solo Albums: 'Harry Styles,' 'Fine Line'
Styles made a successful solo entry in 2017 with the epic single "Sign of the Times," his
accompanying self-titled album debuting in the familiar No. 1 spot. Fans then waited
another two years for his next single, which came in October 2019 with the soulful
"Lights Up." His sophomore solo album, Fine Line, contained his first No. 1 single,
"Watermelon Sugar." That year he was also nominated for three Grammy awards.

'Dunkirk'
After appearing in concert documentaries with One Direction, Styles made his feature
film debut in Christopher Nolan's 2017 war thriller Dunkirk, as an Allied soldier named
Alex.

BY BILLBOARD:
Harry Styles was born and raised in England. His birthday is Feb. 1, 1994, and his height is 6'0".
He first found fame as a member of boy band One Direction, which was formed on the British
singing competition 'The X Factor' in 2010, with the group landing four No. 1 albums on the
Billboard 200. 1D announced its hiatus in August 2015, and the members went on to solo
projects, with Styles' self-titled debut studio album arriving in May 2017; it debuted at No. 1 on
the Billboard 200. Subsequent albums 'Fine Line' (2019) and 'Harry's House' (2022) also topped
the chart. His first solo No. 1 song was "Watermelon Sugar" off his sophomore album, while his
second No. 1 -- "As It Was" from 'Harry's House' -- topped the Hot 100 for 15 weeks. He has
multiple Grammy wins, including best pop solo performance for "Watermelon Sugar" and album
of the year for 'Harry's House.' The star has also dipped his toe into acting, making his big-screen
debut in 2017's 'Dunkirk,' appearing as Eros in the Marvel film 'Eternals' (2021) and starring in
'My Policeman' and 'Don't Worry Darling' in 2022.
Review: Harry Styles Is a True Rock Star on Superb Solo Debut
For his debut, the One Direction heartthrob invokes an intimately emotional Seventies soft-rock
vibe
Harry Styles doesn’t just want to be a rock star – he wants to be the rock star. And on his
superb solo debut, the One Direction heartthrob claims his turf as a true rock & roll
prince, a sunshine superman, a cosmic dancer in touch with his introspective acoustic
side as well as his glam flash. He avoids the celebrity-guest debutante ball he could have
thrown himself – instead, he goes for a intimately emotional Seventies soft-rock vibe.
No club-hopping or bottles popping – it’s the after-hours balladry of a 23-year-old star
wondering why he spends so much time in lonely hotel rooms staring at his phone.
Harry digs so deep into classic California mellow gold, you might suspect his enigmatic
new tattoos that say “Jackson” and “Arlo” refer to Browne and Guthrie.

“You can’t bribe the door on your way to the sky,” he warns early on in “Sign of the
Times,” but the sky is where he’s aiming, and his sheer brazen confidence is dazzling –
he never sounds like he’s trying too hard or scrounging for cred, which is where boy-
band alumni usually screw up their solo records. The whole album has the personal yet
witty spirit of the cover photo, where a topless Harry has a moment of doubt and pain in
a bathtub full of pink unicorn tears. (His original title was Pink, because it’s “the only
true rock & roll color.”) He spends a lot of the album wet, actually – whether it’s tears,
other bodily fluids, or just “candy dripping on me till my feet are wet.”
Harry’s soft-rock fetish won’t surprise fans of One Direction gems like “Olivia” or
“Stockholm Syndrome,” but this is the first time we’ve heard Sweet Baby Styles run with
it for a whole album. The songs he tipped in advance didn’t play coy about his old-school
inspirations – the Badfinger hook of “Ever Since New York,” the “Blackbird” guitar of
“Sweet Creature,” the way “Sign of the Times” tweaks Queen and Bowie in candelabra
mode – yet they all sound like him, playful and tender in equal measure. In most of
these songs, he mourns a dead-end relationship, the kind where “comfortable silence is
so overrated,” and you can hear that he’s been binging on singer-songwriter
confessionals from Harry Nilsson’s Nilsson Schmillson to Taylor Swift’s Red. “Meet Me
In The Hallway” sets the tone – a touch of John Lennon echo in his voice, a touch of
Jimmy Page in the acoustic guitar – as he pleads like a love junkie craving a fix.
“Carolina” rides a tropical low-rider summer groove, while the lovelorn “Two Ghosts”
could pass for vintage Bread. “Woman” could be a lost slow-jam duet between Prince
and Joe Walsh, as Harry asks, “Should we just search romantic comedies on Netflix and
see what we can find?”
He dabbles in hard rock raunch with “Kiwi” (“She worked her way through a cheap pack
of cigarettes/Hard liquor mixed with a bit of intellect”) and “Only Angel.” Yet he sounds
brassiest, most confident, most himself when he gets vulnerable. He ends with “From
the Dining Table,” an acoustic lament where he wakes up alone in yet another hotel
room. (“Played with
myself, where were you?/I fell back asleep and was drunk by noon/I’ve never felt less
cool.”) Through it all, he manages to steer clear of all the traps that ordinarily sabotage a
boy-band star’s solo move. But as the whole album proves, there’s not a thing ordinary
about this guy.
 Harry Styles Is a Rock God and a Gentleman on ‘Fine Line’
The English pop star makes retro-rock with a sensitive touch on his excellent second al
IF YOU'RE LISTENING for evidence of the many psychedelic mushrooms Harry Styles says he
ate during the recording of his outstanding second album, you will have to wait until Fine Line's
second to last song for a dose. But when "Treat People With Kindness" arrives, it trips balls.
Musing about " oating up and dreaming/Dropping into the deep end" over a feverish groove of
congas, handclaps, and Mellotron, Styles calls upon a gospel chorus to take him even higher:
"Maaaaybe, we can nd a place to feeeel good," they thunder in full Seventies musical- theatre
mode. "To feel good!"
Though Harry Styles Superstar would have been a gloriously mad album, Fine Line is not the
magical mystery tour one might have assumed the breakout One Direction heartthrob set his
sights on following his classic-rock-inspired debut, Harry Styles. But it's not him suddenly
declaring, "OK, boomer," either. Like his brilliant uniform of owing, high-waisted trousers and
shagadelic chest-baring shirts-loud retro looks hot off the Gucci runway it's a streamlined, party-
ready, primary-colors take on the enduring concept of the rock & roll starman. It's also as much
fun as anyone short of Bruno Mars is having with a band these days. (Especially when Styles, an
irresistible irt of a singer, gets playful as he does on heartbreaker ballad "Cherry," dragging out
the word "haaaating" from "I'm hating it" like he's repeating a favorite line from Clueless.)
With short-story lyrics about a family man's life of quiet desperation and a six-minute build to
wailing guitar drama, "She" might be the closest thing here to a "Sign of the Times"-style
homage to Bowie and the Beatles. But the Sixties and Seventies signi ers sprinkled throughout
the album - a little organ, some clavinet, and even George Harrison specials like electric sitar and
sarangi - are expertly Vitamixed into pop-rock smoothies you can dance to, like the strutting
"Adore You" and soulful "Lights Up.”
Aided by genre- uid songwriters like Kid Harpoon, Jeff Bhasker, Greg Kurstin, and Amy Allen,
Styles is also now mining some rich millennial veins as well. Busy and beachy, "Sun ower Vol.
6" could sit next to Vampire Weekend on any playlist. The title track emerges from a darkly
beautiful Bon Iver-like haze into a big, semi-hopeful, brass-and-martial-drums nish; with a
measure of uncertainty tting the close of this chaotic decade, Styles promises: "We'll be all
right"
That "we," as the Harries will surely speculate, may be Styles and his ex, the French model
Camille Rowe. Indeed, the grand rock-album tradition in which Fine Line indulges is not the
long strange trip but the totally predictable breakup. Even the dreamily propulsive opening track,
"Golden," in which Styles compares thee to a summer's day that "browns my skin just right,"
nds him foreshadowing the inevitable sunset: "I don't wanna be alone/When it ends."
No Talmudic study of the lyrics will be required of the stans. If the "I just miss your accent and
your friends breadcrumbs in "Cherry" don't suf ce, the recording of Rowe giggling and speaking
in French should take them home. But as perfectly suited to binging on Spotify and dissecting on
Twitter as the album may be (Styles streams even better than he does on radio), it's how
consciously he uncouples here that truly sets him apart from the old testament rock gods. "I'm
just an arrogant son of a bitch who can't admit when he's sorry," he confesses in the syncopated
slow-burner "To Be So Lonely." In the otherwise forgettable ballad "Falling," he channels every
woman hounded by a needy guy for worse), asking, "What if I'm someone I don't want around?"
If there's a nontoxic masculinity, Harry Styles just might've found it. And that's the kind of magic
mushrooms can't buy.
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Harry Styles’ ‘Harry’s House’ is a Smooth, Sensitive Step
Forward For One of Pop’s Most Likable Stars
Harry Styles delivers sleek, heartfelt pop pleasures on his great third album

When Harry Styles left the U.K. boy band One Direction he was eager to prove his musical
ambition and historical knowledge. His debut 2017 single was the brazenly enormous Bowie/
Queen-style ballad "Sign of the Times." An artist in his position could've come off as insecure or
overreaching, but Styles has relaxed with winning ease into his role as a gender- uid, genre- uid
megastar, a new-look rock & roll gentleman who can ip from guitar raunch to soul to soft rock
and convincingly pull off a come-on like "I know that you're scared because I'm so open." He's a
Mick Jagger for our more enlightened age.
With his third album, Harry's House, due this Friday, he's pulled off the neat trick of making his
music at once elegant and more re ned but also warmer and more intimate- the polished- marble
smoothness of Steely Dan with the generosity of an Al Green or Yo La Tengo record. Harry's
House is bright with synths and horns, often steeped in slick, sticky synth-pop and R&B. You
almost expect to check the credits and nd Greg Phillinganes and Rod Temperton in there with
Styles' longtime songwriting collaborators Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson.
He kicks things off with the date-night splendor of "Music for a Sushi Restaurant," a sensual
splurge of Prince-ly elation, as he sings about green eyes, fried rice, sweet ice cream, and blue
bubblegum twisted 'round your tongue. "Late Night Talking" is a spot-on study in early-Eighties
smoothness, with Styles tenderly promising to "follow you to any place/If it's Hollywood or
Bishopsgate.”

A lot of young artists trying on sleek Eighties sounds tend to lapse into a kind of pantomime of
cocaine-glazed New Wave detachment. And indeed, Styles does mention "doing cocaine in my
kitchen" on the crisp synth-pop shuf e "Daylight." But the song is sweet, not mirror-shades
creepy, with Styles in a haze of comedown re ection thinking about New York bicycle rides and
comparing himself to a bluebird ready to y to wherever you're at. On songs like "Keep Driving"
and "Grapejuice," the airy, sumptuous grooves clear a space for Styles to explore a sense of
desire that's tinged with openness and vulnerability.
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British Vogue highlights eight trends that Harry has had a hand In.

• Buzzy bucket hats

• Fruitful endeavour
Trust Styles to get a fruit trending. His viral hit was responsible for an 11 per cent rise in searches for “watermelons”,
making them the way to get your five-a-day in 2020.

• Homespun knits
Harry raised the #CottageCore game when he took to the stage in a rainbow crochet cardigan last summer. London
Fashion Week veteran Jonathan Anderson masterminded the star’s colourful knit, which became a TikTok sensation
after fans attempted to recreate his look. Anderson even shared the pattern for the cardi online, ensuring still more
social media mileage for the #HarryStylesCardigan hashtag.

• Pearly king
Paul Mescal’s silver chain in Normal People wasn’t the only sought-after jewellery item of last year. Along with Billy
Porter, A$AP Rocky and Pharrell, Styles popularised pearl necklaces, and at one point caused a 31 per cent spike in
searches. The Miami-based independent brand Éliou is behind Harry’s favourite pieces.

• Sprightly tailoring
It’s no secret that Harry is a fan of suiting. The Gucci muse called upon his trusted collaborator Alessandro Michele to
create a custom double-breasted jacket for “Golden”. A sepia behind-the-scenes shot of Harry removing one of his
crochet driving gloves with his teeth didn’t just whip his fans into a frenzy, it also prompted a 52 per cent spike in
searches for “turquoise blue blazers”.

• Hawaiian hype
Dressing like your dad has never been cooler. Harry made Hawaiian shirts hip in 2020 (searches were up 16 per cent),
and various floral styles made it into “Watermelon Sugar,” as did a similarly eccentric pair of vintage blue shades from
The Contemporary Wardrobe.
• Sequins on sequins
The star rang in the new year in style with a glittering video for his latest track, “Treat People With Kindness,” which
saw him and Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge don matching outfits. A certain embellished argyle vest from Gucci
stole the show, generating a 426 per cent surge in searches for “sequins”.

• Crisp palazzo pants

It wasn’t just Styles and Waller-Bridge’s dancing that won over fans in “Treat People With Kindness” – page views for
“white wide-leg trousers” across menswear and womenswear skyrocketed after the release.

• Cardigans

We knew Styles had reach in the fashion community. What we didn’t know was just how far his reach went. This
summer, we got our answer. In June, months after Styles wore a JW Anderson patchwork cardigan for
a TODAY appearance, his fans on TikTok got an idea: To DIY his cardigan, which cost over $1,800, and document the
process on the popular social media app. Today, TikTok’s #HarryStylesCardigan page has 54.1 million views — 36.3
million more than when we first reported this news in August.
• Crochet Tops

Within 24 hours of Harry Styles’ music video debut of “Watermelon Sugar,” search spiked for all of the fashion items
featured in it, including Hawaiian shirts and pieces from Bode. Also popular? Crochet tops, which rose in search
on Lyst by 6%, and have since become a major trend, both on DIY TikTok and on Instagram. Fashion brands ranging
from Miu Miu to SERIES NY also hopped on board.
• Argyle Sweaters

Admittedly, it wasn’t just Styles who caused an uptick in popularity for argyle sweaters — Waller-Bridge and Wilde
helped, too. In January, following the release of his music video for “Treat People With Kindness,” in which both
Styles and Waller-Bridge wore argyle sweater vests — as well as a paparazzi spotting of Wilde wearing a pink-and-
brown argyle sweater vest — Lyst reported a 39% month-over-month increase in search for similar knitwear. In
addition, the site saw a 26% increase in search for “argyle” sweaters and a 17% jump in page views for sweater vests.