One Direction - "You are so Beautiful" - The X Factor 2010 - Live Show 8

For their second song of the Quarter Finals, One Direction and mentor Simon Cowell have chosen Joe Crocker’s "You are so Beautiful" in hope that they will be voted into the Semi Finals. One Direction is a five-member boy band made up of Liam Payne, 17, a music technology student at City of Wolverhampton College (born in Wolverhampton on 29 August 1993), Louis Tomlinson, 18, (from Doncaster), a student at Hall Cross School Niall Horan, 17, (from Mullingar, Westmeath, Ireland), a student at Coláiste Mhuire, Mullingar. Harry Styles, 16, (from Holmes Chapel, Cheshire) a student at Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School and Zayn Malik, 17 (from East Bowling, Bradford). They applied as solo candidates to the competition, but failed to qualify for the Boys category. The judges, after a suggestion by Cowell, put them in a band, qualifying for the Groups category. Payne had auditioned in 2008 to The X Factor's fifth series when he was 14 and reached judges' houses, but Cowell thought he was not ready for the competition and asked him to come back in two years. This time Cowell chose him to be part of One Direction. Styles was the lead singer for the band White Eskimo with band members lead guitarist Haydn Morris, bass guitarist Nick Clough and drummer Will Sweeney. Malik was noted for becoming nervous in bootcamp, and when he was told he had to dance, he decided to remain backstage, effectively running the risk of elimination. Cowell noticed Malik missing from the dance routine and ...

Channel: YouTube Video Length: 1m 57s Date Found: Sun, Nov 28 2010 5:53 AM Category: Music Date Produced: Sun, Nov 28 2010 5:39 AM View Count: 0