Harry Edward Styles (born 1 February 1994) is an English singer, songwriter, and actor. His showmanship, artistry, and flamboyant fashion have had a significant impact on popular culture. Styles's musical career began in 2010 as part of One Direction, a boy band formed on the British music competition series The X Factor after each member of the band had been eliminated from the solo contest. They became one of the best-selling boy bands of all time before going on an indefinite hiatus in 2016. Styles released his eponymous debut solo album through Erskine and Columbia Records in 2017. Led by the UK number-one single "Sign of the Times", it became one of the top-ten best-selling albums of the year globally. His second album, Fine Line (2019), set the biggest ever first-week sales by an English male artist in the United States. Its fourth single, "Watermelon Sugar", topped the US Billboard Hot 100. Styles's widely acclaimed third album, Harry's House (2022), received the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, while its lead single, "As It Was", became the world's biggest single of the year. His fourth album, Kiss All the Time.
