‘The X Factor’ just released all the footage from Harry’s audition. The recordings show that the young star did not immediately prosper. The then 16-year-old singer started singing ‘Soul Sister’, a song by Train. That didn’t sound quite right, though. Fortunately, judge Simon Cowell gave him a second chance. Harry then sang an a cappella version of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Isn’t She Lovely’. And that sounded much better.
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He barely survived the auditions. He dropped out again later in the program, but the judges decided to give him another chance. This time as a member of a boy group, along with Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik. One Direction was born. The rest is history.
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Earlier this year, the program released never-before-seen footage of the group’s formation. Striking: it was not Harry, but Liam Payne who was labeled as the possible ‘leader’ of the group at the time.
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