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Singer Zayn Malik has launched he is suspending dates on his upcoming tour after the death of his broken-down One Route bandmate Liam Payne.
The 31-year-aged posted on X on Saturday: “Given the heartbreaking loss skilled this week, I’ve made the choice to extend the US leg of the STAIRWAY TO THE SKY Tour.
“The dates are being rescheduled for January and I’ll post them as soon as it’s all set in the next few days. Your tickets will remain valid for the new dates. Love you all and thank you for your understanding.”
Payne died after falling from a resort balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Wednesday.
Malik modified into about to birth up the US leg of his tour and modified into subsequent attributable to invent in San Fransisco on Wednesday.
Whereas the neatly-known particular person mentioned the seven American shows will now seize space in January, he didn’t comment on the chase of UK ones – initiating in Edinburgh on 20 November.
Payne at London’s Royal Albert Hall in December 2022. Pic: PA
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Malik left One Route midway by their 2015 tour – earlier than the closing four stars parted ways the next year.
Paying tribute to Payne, 31, in an Instagram put up earlier this week, he mentioned that even within the occasion that they famously “butted heads”, he “secretly respected” his bandmate.
“Liam I have found myself talking out loud to you, hoping you can hear me, I can’t help but think selfishly that there was so many more conversations for us to have in our lives,” he wrote.
He added that he “never got to thank” his buddy for “supporting me through some of the most difficult times in my life”.
“When I was missing home as a 17-year-old kid, you would always be there with a positive outlook and reassuring smile and let me know you were my friend and that I was loved,” he mentioned.
Payne’s father Geoff arrived in Buenos Aires on Friday to position of dwelling up for his son’s physique to be returned to the UK.
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Liam Payne’s father reads tributes in Argentina
He modified into seen open air the Casa Sur resort the set up the singer died, reading tributes and taking a study plant life left by fans.
Argentinian officers mentioned Mr Payne visited Buenos Aires’s morgue to name his son earlier than meeting with the local prosecutor’s space of labor.
Native media reported he modified into also anticipated to gain some of Payne’s property sooner or later of the controversy over with.
Tributes poured in from Payne’s other ex-bandmates this week – Harry Styles, Niall Horan, and Louis Tomlinson, as neatly as their broken-down supervisor Simon Cowell.
