Zayn Malik
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838 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 11 Feb
Zayn Malik’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think I was about 11, 12. I'd sung a little bit before, like I'd done a bit in school choir and stuff. Funny story, I actually fancied these three girls that were in choir, and they were triplets, and that's why I just was like, I'm gonna be in choir just so I can hang around these girls.
And then it developed from there when I went into high school, I went to a performing arts college, specifically majored in sports and performing arts.
and they were doing the school production that year for Greets and I auditioned and nobody could sing like at all like in our whole school and I went and did this like singing audition everyone was like whoa you can sing and then my music teacher like recommended that I get like a couple of singing lessons and stuff and then she said I think you should go on X Factor I think you've got a good chance like and it just kind of went from there like
I was like eight as well, by the way. So swaggy.
I need to just, yeah, spend this time here.
I think it was just nerves. I built it up in my head and I was like, yo, this is a massive thing. And yeah, I was like, I don't think I'm going to go today. And my mom's like, you are going, you're going right now. You're going to go see what happens. So yeah, definitely owe it to her for that, for sure.
Yeah. But I had no idea, no clue. Like they told us like we had to have like a backing track. like a karaoke version. And like, I was so like inexperienced at that time that I didn't even know what that was. So like, I was just planning on singing acapella. So I was just gonna do it like without anything. And it was so weird for me to adjust to singing on a backing track.
I was like, this is such a weird experience. I think even Simon looked at me a little bit weird. Like when I did the acapella, cause everybody had backing tracks and stuff, but yeah.
I don't know. It could have worked either way. Maybe it made me sound really bad too.
Yeah, true.
Yeah, I do. Mario, Let Me Love You. And the reason I said that is because I've seen that performance back a few times and cringed every time I watched it. So yeah, it's not my best vocal performance. There's a lot of nerves involved there for sure.
There's some talent. Yeah, there's some potential.
Yeah, it does. It feels like so much longer than it actually was because so much stuff's happened in that time. Yeah, it's very interesting, very surreal. And I feel all them nerves again when I watch it. I feel like I could give myself a hug and be like, It's okay, bro. Cause I literally, I'm like holding onto the mic for dear life. Please, nobody hurt me.
Yeah, we knew each other, like, just from around. Okay. Because we were, like, a similar age and stuff. So naturally you speak to people who are, like, a similar age to you around there and stuff. And we were at boot camp together and I met Harry on my audition day because we both auditioned in Manchester. And we were literally sat next to each other in the audition.
He was sat right next to me. We spoke and I went in and did like a producing audition round. And then he went in straight after me and we spoke a little bit there. Yeah.
Obviously, you know, you don't see all the behind the scenes and stuff, but yeah, you spend a lot of time with the contestants.
Um, it was kind of strange. The like, visual evidence of life changing, like people being outside of the studio and stuff was like, when we were on the live shows, we started to get like a fan base and an audience and you could see that people were paying interest in us. So yeah, from that point on, like it was kind of a bit crazy.
Not really. I don't think I comprehended it at all. I think it's just a rush. It was just fun. And then the repetitive fun over and over again eventually is going to take its toll. So then you look at it a certain way when you're in that and it feels overbearing. Now I look back at it like it was a rush. It was fun and it was something that was...
amazing like so of course i wasn't going to understand it it's not something i expected in my life but um it was definitely fun for sure yeah
Yeah, 17, yeah.
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