Since 2010, Louis Tomlinson has been one of the defining voices in 21st-century pop, first as a founding member of global juggernaut One Direction and now as a chart-topping solo artist. Born Louis William Tomlinson on December 24, 1991, in Doncaster, England, he was placed in the five-piece boy band — alongside Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, and Zayn Malik — after auditioning solo on the seventh season of The X Factor UK.

One Direction became one of the best-selling musical acts of the decade, releasing five studio albums and selling more than 70 million records worldwide. The group set a Billboard 200 record as the first British band to debut at #1 with their first album — Up All Night (2011) — and followed it with chart-topping releases Take Me Home (2012), Midnight Memories (2013), Four (2014), and Made in the A.M. (2015), producing global hits like "What Makes You Beautiful" and "Story of My Life."