Zayn Malik
Biography, Age, Net Worth, House, Cars, Wife, Child, Parents, Siblings, Height & Music Career
Zayn Malik Basic Information
| Stage Name: | Zayn Malik/ Zayn |
| Real Name: | Zain Javadd Malik |
| Occupation: | Singer and Songwriter |
| Date Of Birth/Age: | |
| Place of Birth: | Bradford, West Yorkshire |
| Gender: | Male |
| Nationality: | English |
| Marital Status: | In A Relationship |
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| Height: | 5Ft 8In |
| Net Worth: | $75M |
Zayn Malik Biography
Zayn Malik was born Zain Javadd Malik on 12 January 1993 in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Despite having an Islamic upbringing, he no longer identifies as a Muslim.
Malik was raised in a working-class household and neighbourhood in East Bowling, Bradford. He attended Bradford’s Lower Fields Primary School and Tong High School, now Tong Leadership Academy. He participated in school plays and performing arts classes as a teenager. He was raised on the R&B, hip-hop, and reggae records his father collected. When singer Jay Sean visited his school, he began writing raps and performing live for the first time. From the age of 15 to 17, Malik boxed for two and also boxed for two years to get a degree in English to work as an English teacher before starting his music career.
Family
Parents
Yaser Malik, a Muslim immigrant from Pakistan, and Trisha Malik (née Brannan), a White British woman of English and Irish ancestry who converted to Islam after getting married, were his parents. In 1997, they got divorced.
Siblings
Malik has one older sister, Doniya, and two younger sisters, Waliyha and Safaa.
Child
With his ex-girlfriend Gigi Hadid, he has a daughter, Khai Hadid Malik (born 21 September 2020).
Girlfriend
Following his 2010 split from Cher Lloyd, Malik started dating English singer Perrie Edwards of the band Little Mix in December 2011. The couple engaged in August 2013 but called it quits in August 2015.
Late in 2015, Malik and American model Gigi Hadid started dating intermittently. He featured Hadid in the music video for “Pillowtalk,” the two shared the Vogue cover for August 2017. Hadid captured both of them in 2017 for a Versace advertisement. The family mostly stayed home on a working farm in rural Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where Malik cared for horses and cows and where Yolanda, the mother of Hadid, and Bella, her sister, also owned land. After Hadid’s mother accused Malik of hitting her, the two broke up in October 2021; Malik pleaded no contest to four charges of harassment.
According to court documents, Malik used “lewd, lascivious, threatening, or obscene words” while “grabbing and pushing her into a dresser, causing mental anguish and physical pain.” He was given a 360-day probationary period and ordered to complete anger management and domestic violence education programs by a Pennsylvania court.
He is rumoured to be presently in a relationship with Neelam Gill.
Lifestyle
Early on, he developed a passion for singing and performing, and at the age of 17, he entered the television contest The X Factor. One Direction rose to prominence as a finalist on The X Factor after judges Simon Cowell and Nicole Scherzinger combined him with fellow contestants Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, and Louis Tomlinson to form a new act. The 2011–2012 UK tour for One Direction was fully booked in just 12 minutes.
After the band’s enormous success, Malik split from them in 2015 to focus on a solo career. ZAYN moved to Los Angeles after signing with RCA Records and started working on his solo album with James “Malay” Ho (Frank Ocean, Big Boi). His full-length debut album, Mind of Mine, was released on 25 March 2016, and it contains his debut single, “Pillowtalk,” released in late January 2016 and debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts.
A series of singles from Malik’s upcoming sophomore solo album, including “Let Me,” “Entertainer,” and “Sour Diesel,” were released starting in April 2018. Despite not having the same level of commercial success as its predecessor, the long-awaited album Icarus Falls finally appeared in December and received favourable reviews. 2019 saw Malik and Zhavia Ward perform “A Whole New World” from the Aladdin soundtrack together. He also worked with Shaed that year on a remix of “Trampoline” and with DJs R3hab and Jungleboi on the song “Flames.” After “Icarus Falls” became a hit, Malik’s third solo album, “Nobody is Listening,” was released in January 2021.
With his 2016 shoe collaboration with Giuseppe Zanotti, Zayn made his fashion debut. He then started work on his Versus Versace link, released in May 2017. Malik also agreed to executive produce the new television program Boys with Universal Pictures and Law & Order creator Dick Wolf in August 2016. The series will follow a boy band as they experience massive success waves akin to those experienced by One Direction. Zayn returned to the music scene in late 2016 with the release of the Fifty Shades Darker soundtrack single “I Don’t Want To Live Forever,” featuring Taylor Swift. The song debuted at #1 on the Digital Songs chart and #6 on the Billboard Hot 100, demonstrating its dominance. In March 2017, Malik released “Still Got Time,” the lead single from Zayn’s upcoming sophomore album featuring PartyNextDoor.
Malik debuted on The Business of Fashion’s annual BoF500 index, which lists the industry’s most significant figures, in 2016. He launched a shoe collection with Italian designer Giuseppe Zanotti in January 2017. The Giuseppe for Zayn capsule collection had two boot styles and two sneakers. The Versus (Versace) Spring Summer 2017 campaign, which starred Malik and model Adwoah Aboah, was unveiled in February 2017. He also co-hosted the annual Americans in Paris cocktail during Paris Fashion Week in the same month. The chief designer of Versace, Donatella Versace, selected Malik as the creative director for the men’s and women’s capsule collection Zayn x Versus, which debuted in May 2017.
For The Kooples, Malik created a line of backpacks in September 2018. He served as a model for Penshoppe’s Spring 2018 and 2019 campaigns. Additionally, he modelled for Martyre, which Anwar Hadid, Gigi’s brother, established.
Malik is a recognized representative of the British Asian Trust, a nonprofit organization that works to better the circumstances of underprivileged South Asians. He supported Comic Relief fundraising events for Africa with his former band, One Direction. Malik gave his guitar to the Kean’s Children Fund in Dundee, Scotland, in April 2014. Charlie Kean, the organization’s founder, held an online auction for the guitar and used the proceeds to purchase iPads for the kids’ ward at Ninewells. Malik purchased a box at Bradford City in March 2016 for underprivileged kids to watch football and named it Walter Brannan. In January 2020, Malik gave £10,000 to a GoFundMe page the girl’s mother set up to raise money for the five-year-medical old’s expenses.
Malik shared links to petitions and donated to the George Floyd memorial fund in May and June 2020 to show his support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Malik received hostile comments and death threats online when he tweeted the “#FreePalestine” hashtag during the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict. In a letter he sent to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on 8 November 2022, Malik pleaded with Sunak to expand access to free school meals in light of the rising cost of living.
Malik is frequently mentioned among prominent diasporic Pakistanis in Pakistan. He came in at number 27 on Glamour’s list of the sexiest men in the world in 2011. Malik was selected as the best-dressed man in 2014 by British GQ. In 2015, he received several accolades, including “Sexiest Male in Pop” honours from British radio network Capital, “World’s Sexiest Asian Man” awards from the British newspaper Eastern Eye, “World’s Top Ten Bachelors” honours from Manchester’s Crown Clinic, and sixth place on MTV’s list of the “50 Sexiest Men Alive” list. He came in at number five on Glamour magazine’s list of the “100 Sexiest Men” in 2016.
Malik has won several awards, such as an MTV Video Music Grant and an American Music Grant. As a member of One Command in 2013 and as an accompanist in 2017, he is the only artist to have won the Billboard Music Award for New Creator of the Year twice.
Net Worth
Zayn is said to have an estimated net worth of over $75 Million
Cars
Zayn Malik owns numerous high-end vehicles due to his rising fame and success. Models from the Audi R8, Bentley Continental GT, Ferrari 458 Italia Spider, Cadillac Escalade, and Land Rover Range Rover SV Autobiography are among Zayn Malik’s automobile collection.
House
He currently resides in a SoHo apartment in Manhattan and previously owned homes in London and Los Angeles, both of which he sold in 2018. He also has a Pennsylvania farmhouse.
Music Career
Malik, then 17 years old, went to Manchester to try out for the seventh season of The X Factor, a reality television competition. He was invited to the next round after performing the rhythm and blues vocalist Mario’s song “Let Me Love You” during his audition. Before the competition’s final round, Malik was eliminated. He was nevertheless combined with fellow contestants Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, and Louis Tomlinson to form a new act for the remainder of the show by judges Nicole Scherzinger and Simon Cowell. They competed as One Direction and became one of The X Factor’s most well-liked finalists. Despite coming in third place overall, they were signed immediately to Cowell’s Syco music label.
Malik is well-known for his high notes, belting, and falsetto vocal techniques. He has a broad tenor vocal range. Jamieson Cox regarded him as One Direction’s best singer in Time’s publication.
When One Direction’s debut single, “What Makes You Beautiful,” was made available in the UK in September 2011, it immediately shot to the top of the pop music charts. 2012’s best-selling album in the UK and the US was their self-titled debut album. Malik travelled widely with One Direction, getting to know their young female fans worldwide. Malik shocked the public by quitting the group’s world tour in March 2015. Malik made his permanent departure from One Direction known on 25 March.
Malik started his solo music career shortly after leaving One Direction with a demo of “I Don’t Mind” that producer Naughty Boy posted online. Soon after, official singles like “Pillowtalk” and “It’s You” were released. His debut album, Mind of Mine, which debuted at No. 1 in both the U.K. and the U.S. in the spring of 2016, contained both of these songs. The song “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” from the Fifty Shades Darker soundtrack, which Malik and Taylor Swift co-wrote, also became a commercial success later that year.
A series of singles from Malik’s upcoming sophomore solo album, including “Let Me,” “Entertainer,” and “Sour Diesel,” were released starting in April 2018. Despite not having the same level of commercial success as its predecessor, the long-awaited album Icarus Falls finally appeared in December and received favourable reviews. 2019 saw Malik and Zhavia Ward perform “A Whole New World” from the Aladdin soundtrack together. He also worked with Shaed that year on a “Trampoline” remix and with DJs R3hab and Jungleboi on the song “Flames.” In January 2021, Malik released “Nobody is Listening,” his third studio album.
Billboard reported on 26 January 2023 that Malik had signed a new management agreement with United Talent Agency for “representation across music, film, and television” following his release from RCA. On 27 June 2023, Billboard reported that Malik had re-signed with Mercury Records and was ready to “very soon” drop his first single as a label member. With his new single “Love Like This,” his first with Mercury, Malik is anticipated to shift from his traditional pop sound to a more contemporary r&b sound.
