Payne, one-fifth of the wildly successful group One Direction, died after falling from the third floor of an Argentina hotel, local news outlets say.

Payne was just 16 years old when he was selected by Simon Cowell to be part of One Direction in 2010. It’s often forgotten that the group did not actually win X Factor that year, but that hardly mattered; in the long run they went on to become far and away the most successful artists to emerge from the now-defunct TV talent show.