Harry Styles is a British singer, songwriter, and actor who rose to fame as a member of the boy band One Direction. After the band's hiatus, he launched a successful solo career, releasing critically acclaimed albums and embarking on sold-out tours. Styles has also ventured into acting, appearing in films like Dunkirk. He is known for his charismatic stage presence, musical versatility, and distinctive fashion sense, which have made him a significant figure in contemporary pop culture. His influence extends beyond music, shaping trends and inspiring a generation with his message of self-acceptance and individuality.
In 1971, Joni Mitchell's album Blue inspired Harry Styles to contact the album's dulcimer instrumentalist, with whom he worked on Fine Line. Harry Styles also chose to record Fine Line in Henson Studios after being inspired by Carole King's album Tapestry, also released in 1971, which was recorded there.
Harry Styles's tattoo artist Liam Sparkes stated the butterfly on his torso is "based on an old French prison tattoo inspired by the film Papillon from 1973."
In 1973, as a child, Harry Styles listened to Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon and remembered thinking it was really cool, even though he couldn't really understand it.
In a 2015 Rolling Stone review of One Direction's concert, Rob Sheffield compared Harry Style's performance to Secretariat running the Belmont Stakes in 1973.
While writing Harry's House in Tokyo, Harry Styles was inspired by Haruomi Hosono's 1973 debut album Hosono House and paid homage to its title.
In 1975, Joni Mitchell's album The Hissing of Summer Lawns featured the track "Harry's House", Joni Mitchell tweeted that she "love[d] the title."
In 1977, Stevie Nicks likened Harry Style's album Fine Line to Fleetwood Mac's album Rumours and commented that she was inspired by him to write new music and poetry.
In 1977, the first song Harry Styles learned the words to was "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac, although as a child, he thought the song was about the weather.
In 1978, Gerry Rafferty's single "Right Down the Line" was a specific reference point during the creation of Harry's House.
In 1984, Harry Styles has lyrics from "Careless Whisper" tattooed on his ankles.
In 1987, Harry Styles sampled George Michael's song "Faith" on his unreleased track "Anna".
In 1991, Nielsen SoundScan began electronically tracking sales data.
In February 1994, Harry Edward Styles was born. His birth had a significant impact on popular culture.
On 11 April 2010, Harry Styles auditioned for The X Factor as a solo contestant, initially singing "Hey, Soul Sister" and then "Isn't She Lovely".
In July 2010, Harry Styles and four other contestants who were eliminated as soloists were put together to form the boy band One Direction to compete in The X Factor. Harry Styles suggested the name One Direction.
In 2010, Harry Styles's musical career began as part of One Direction, a boy band formed on The X Factor.
In January 2011, One Direction signed a recording contract with Simon Cowell's label, Syco Records.
From November 2011, Harry Styles dated television presenter Caroline Flack. Their relationship stirred controversy, as she was 14 years older than Styles and accused of paedophilia.
In January 2012, the relationship between 17-year-old Harry Styles and television presenter Caroline Flack ended. The relationship stirred controversy, as she was 14 years older than Styles and accused of paedophilia.
In 2012, One Direction released their second album Take Me Home, which debuted at number one in the UK.
From 2013, Harry Styles dated model Kendall Jenner, who he later cited as one of the muses of his debut album.
In 2013, Harry Styles and Liam Payne became ambassadors for the cancer charity Trekstock, raising over US$800,000 through the online fundraising platform Prizeo. Styles also spoke up on Twitter, responding that he "believes in equal rights for everyone" when the Westboro Baptist Church picketed a One Direction concert.
In 2013, Harry Styles won the British Style Award at the Fashion Awards.
In 2013, Harry Styles' mother's marriage to Robin Twist occurred.
In 2013, One Direction released their third album Midnight Memories, which debuted at number one in the UK.
In 2013, the One Direction documentary, One Direction: This Is Us was released. The film features the Tremlow Viaduct, where Styles signs his name.
In a 2013 interview with British GQ, when asked whether he was bisexual, Harry Styles replied, "Bisexual? Me? I don't think so. I'm pretty sure I'm not."
During the band's Four era in 2014, Harry Styles began collaborating with stylist Harry Lambert on his fashion choices and public image.
In 2014, Harry Styles joined LGBT rights charity Stonewall's #FirstSnog campaign in celebration of their 25th anniversary. He also showed support for Michael Sam, the first openly gay player drafted by an NFL team, by wearing his jersey onstage during One Direction's concert in St. Louis.
In 2014, Harry Styles publicly endorsed Emma Watson's HeForShe gender equality campaign, showing his support for gender equality.
In 2014, One Direction released their fourth album Four, which debuted at number one in the UK.
In December 2015, Harry Styles got tattooed on television as a dare on The Late Late Show with James Corden.
In 2015, Harry Styles sponsored water wells in India through Drop4Drop, supporting Life Water's World Water Day campaign.
In 2015, One Direction released their album Made in the A.M., which debuted at number one in the UK.
Since at least 2015, Harry Styles has been recognized by critics for his unusually energetic performances. In a 2015 Rolling Stone review of One Direction's concert at MetLife Stadium, Rob Sheffield compared his performance to Secretariat running the Belmont Stakes.
During 2016, Harry Styles signed a recording contract with Columbia Records and launched his own record label, Erskine Records.
In 2016, Alain de Botton's novel The Course of Love made Harry Styles appreciate the work required in cultivating and sustaining a romantic bond.
In 2016, Harry Styles and model Kendall Jenner ended their relationship. Styles later cited her as one of the muses of his debut album.
In 2016, Harry Styles visited the House of Lords to attend a debate on Brexit following an invitation by Labour peer Lord Winston. Regarding Brexit, he stated that "anything that brings people together is better than things that pull people apart" and stated that it symbolises "the opposite of the world [he] would like to be in."
In 2016, Harry Styles was featured in Another Man magazine, after which Anne T. Donahue of The Guardian labelled him an "artthrob" who offers "something other than token shirtlessness."
In 2016, Harry Styles was ranked first on British Vogue's "The 50 Fittest Boys" list.
In 2016, One Direction went on an indefinite hiatus, following a suggestion by Harry Styles, after completing promotional activities related to Made in the A.M.
In 2016, Vox's Aja Romano deemed the shipping conspiracy theorist fans called "Larries" as "one of the largest elements of the One Direction fandom, which itself is one of the largest fandoms on the internet".
In March 2017, Harry Styles announced that his first solo single, "Sign of the Times", would be released on 7 April.
In May 2017, Harry Styles celebrated the release of his debut album by performing intimate shows at The Garage in London and the Troubadour in Los Angeles, with all proceeds going to charities.
In May 2017, Harry Styles released his debut studio album, Harry Styles, which debuted at number one in several countries. The film Harry Styles: Behind the Album was also released in May exclusively on Apple Music.
In July 2017, Harry Styles made his feature film debut in Christopher Nolan's war film Dunkirk, playing a British soldier named Alex.
From September 2017, Harry Styles embarked on his first headlining concert tour, Harry Styles: Live on Tour.
In November 2017, BBC One broadcast Harry Styles at the BBC, and he performed at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Also in November 2017, at the ARIA Music Awards, Styles received the Best International Artist award.
From 2017, Harry Styles was in a relationship with French-American model Camille Rowe, who inspired his album Fine Line.
Harry Styles confirmed in 2017 that he has polythelia, a condition where a person has more than two nipples.
In 2017, Harry Styles began using the slogan "Treat People with Kindness" during his debut concert tour on a badge on his guitar and tour merchandise, including Pride T-shirts sold to raise funds for GLSEN.
In 2017, Harry Styles released his eponymous debut solo album through Erskine and Columbia Records, which debuted at number one in the UK and the US. Also in 2017, the lead single, "Sign of the Times", topped the UK Singles Chart.
In 2017, Harry Styles was ranked fifth on British Vogue's "The 50 Fittest Boys" list.
In 2017, Harry Styles's film roles included Dunkirk.
In 2017, Robin Twist, Harry Styles' stepfather, died of cancer.
In 2017, when asked if he labelled his sexuality, Harry Styles said, "No, I've never felt the need to really. I don't feel like it's something I've ever felt like I have to explain about myself."
In July 2018, Harry Styles's first headlining concert tour, Harry Styles: Live on Tour, came to an end.
In October 2018, CBS's sitcom Happy Together premiered, on which Harry Styles served as an executive producer.
In 2018, Harry Styles and French-American model Camille Rowe ended their relationship.
In 2018, Harry Styles placed fourth on British GQ's list of 50 best-dressed men.
In 2018, Harry Styles received a Gay Times Honour for LGBTQ Advocate.
In 2018, Harry Styles's online store sold T-shirts with the slogan "Treat People with Kindness" in a rainbow print for Pride Month, with profits benefiting GLSEN. That year, Styles also tweeted in support of the March for Our Lives petition, and added "Black Lives Matter" and "End Gun Violence" stickers to his guitar.
In 2018, Harry Styles, a patron of the MusiCares non profit organization, joined Fleetwood Mac for a performance of The Chain when the band were honored with the MusiCares Person of the Year award.
In May 2019, Harry Styles was named second on the Sunday Times Rich List of musicians in the UK under 30, with an estimated net worth of £58 million.
In July 2019, it was reported that Harry Styles was in early talks to play Prince Eric in the live-action Disney film The Little Mermaid, but he ultimately declined.
In October 2019, Harry Styles released "Lights Up", the lead single from his second album, Fine Line.
In October 2019, teaser posters including the phrase "Do you know who you are?" and the acronym "TPWK" were spotted in London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York, and Australia. To mark World Mental Health Day in 2019, Harry Styles launched a website bot called "Do You Know Who You Are?" that gives users positive randomised messages.
In December 2019, Harry Styles responded to an interview question about not using his influence more often to support specific causes.
In a December 2019 interview, Harry Styles stated that he began to notice the 'Treat People with Kindness' slogan gaining popularity as he saw people wearing the T-shirts.
In 2019, Harry Styles began wearing sweater vests, baggy high-waisted pants, and pearl necklaces, leading Jacob Gallagher of The Wall Street Journal to call him the "popularizer of the manly pearl necklace."
In 2019, Harry Styles's second album, Fine Line, debuted atop the US Billboard 200 with record-breaking first-week sales by an English male artist.
In 2019, The Guardian questioned the authenticity of Harry Styles's flamboyant dressing style and his perceived sexual ambiguity.
In March 2020, Harry Styles performed an NPR Tiny Desk concert. Additionally, in March 2020, he co-wrote the song "Changes" for Cam's album The Otherside.
In May 2020, following the murder of George Floyd, Harry Styles showed support for Black Lives Matter, urging fans to share and donate in support, and pledged to donate to a bail fund for arrested Black Lives Matter activists.
In November 2020, a JW Anderson cardigan worn by Harry Styles during a rehearsal for Today went viral on TikTok. The V&A Museum acquired the cardigan for its permanent collection.
During the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, Harry Styles highlighted Mac Miller's 2020 single "Blue World" as his personal quarantine track of choice.
During the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, Harry Styles released t-shirts with the slogan 'Stay Home. Stay Safe. Protect Each Other,' with 100% of the profits going towards the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund by the World Health Organization. Styles also paid his core tour crew's salaries for the duration of the postponed dates until the end of 2020.
In 2020, Harry Styles became the first man to appear solo on the cover of Vogue, wearing a Gucci dress. This sparked controversy, with some critics demanding a return to traditional masculinity, while Styles defended his fashion choices.
In 2020, Harry Styles maintained his second-place position on the Sunday Times Rich List, with an estimated net worth of £63 million.
In 2020, Harry Styles was voted GQ's "Most Stylish Man of the Year."
In 2020, the Love On Tour, originally planned to support Fine Line, was postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a 2020 interview with Vogue, Harry Styles shared that he practices pilates and meditates daily. He also attends therapy regularly and follows a pescatarian diet.
From January 2021, Harry Styles was in a relationship with actress and director Olivia Wilde, whom he met on the set of Don't Worry Darling.
In January 2021, Harry Styles released the song "Treat People with Kindness" as a single, with a subsequent music video featuring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, after using the slogan 'Treat People with Kindness' for some time.
In March 2021, at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, Harry Styles won the Best Pop Solo Performance award for "Watermelon Sugar". Also in March 2021, "Watermelon Sugar" earned Styles his second Brit Award for British Single of the Year.
On September 4, 2021, Harry Styles's Love On Tour officially kicked off in Las Vegas after a previous postponement.
In November 2021, Harry Styles made a cameo appearance as Eros / Starfox in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Eternals. He also launched his gender-neutral skin and nail care brand, Pleasing, in November 2021.
In 2021, Harry Styles maintained his second-place position on the Sunday Times Rich List, with an estimated net worth of £75 million.
In 2021, the Love On Tour, originally planned to support Fine Line, was rescheduled, having been postponed from 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In June 2022, Harry Styles and his single "Music for a Sushi Restaurant" were featured in an AirPods commercial.
In June 2022, Harry Styles tweeted his devastation over the overturning of Roe v. Wade, stating "I'm absolutely devastated for the people of America today" and referenced the ruling at his concert in Austin, Texas, telling the crowd that "No one can tell you what to do with your own body, it's yours."
On June 2, 2022, Harry Styles announced he was donating his appearance fee from Apple's AirPods' spatial audio campaign to the International Rescue Committee, a global humanitarian aid organization that is responding to the more than six million refugees being forced to flee Ukraine.
In August and September 2022, Harry Styles performed 15 sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden, leading to a permanent banner being raised in the venue to mark the achievement. Styles became the third musical artist in history to have a banner raised at Madison Square Garden.
In November 2022, Harry Styles and actress and director Olivia Wilde ended their relationship.
In November 2022, Harry Styles collaborated with Alessandro Michele on a Gucci collection titled "Gucci Ha Ha Ha".
Harry Styles was inducted as part of the Business of Fashion's Class of 2022, a definitive index of people shaping the global fashion industry.
In 2022, "As It Was" was the most-streamed song of the year globally on Spotify and Deezer, the second-most-streamed song globally on Apple Music, and the most-streamed song in the UK overall. With Harry's House, Styles achieved a first-week vinyl sales count larger than anything any musician has managed before. Styles was also the second-most-searched musician on Google in 2022, after Taylor Swift. Rolling Stone UK named Styles the "new King of Pop" in 2022.
In 2022, Craig McLean described Harry Styles's onstage physicality for The Face as, "stomping, head-banging exuberance" that is "impossible to resist."
In 2022, Harry Styles designed a Gucci joint capsule collection with Alessandro Michele entitled "Ha Ha Ha". The collection was unveiled at Milan Fashion Week. Also in 2022, the Gucci dress he wore on the cover of Vogue was incorporated into a V&A Museum exhibit called Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear. Several of Styles's outfits have been displayed in museums, including a blue velvet suit in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, linen trousers at the Design Museum, and a leather suit in the Grammy Museum at L.A. Live.
In 2022, Harry Styles starred in two films: Don't Worry Darling and My Policeman. Don't Worry Darling, which premiered at the 79th Venice International Film Festival, received mixed reviews for both the film and Styles's performance. My Policeman, which premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, also garnered divided opinions from critics, with varying assessments of Styles's acting.
In 2022, Harry Styles topped the Sunday Times Rich List, becoming the richest musician under 30 in the UK, with his net worth estimated at £100 million.
In 2022, Harry Styles's film roles included Don't Worry Darling and My Policeman.
In 2022, Harry Styles's third album, Harry's House, broke several records and received the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Also in 2022, its lead single, "As It Was", became the number-one song globally, according to Billboard.
In 2022, following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Harry Styles partnered with the nonprofit organization Everytown for Gun Safety for 44 shows across five cities in North America as part of his Love On Tour.
In 2022, when fans started throwing chicken nuggets onstage during a concert and chanted that he should eat one, Harry Styles told them, "I don't eat chicken, sorry. I don't eat meat", earning him PETA's 2022 Best Viral Moment for Animals Award.
In a 2022 interview with Better Homes and Gardens, Harry Styles stated that the expectation that he should publicly label his sexual orientation is "outdated."
From June 2023, Harry Styles dated Canadian actress Taylor Russell.
In July 2023, Harry Styles invited three Ukrainian refugees supported by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to Love On Tour at his show at Warsaw's PGE Narodowy Stadium, continuing his partnership with the organization.
In July 2023, Harry Styles's Love On Tour concluded as the then-fifth-highest-grossing tour of all time, earning $617.3 million.
In September 2023, Harry Styles provided background vocals on bandmate Mitch Rowland's track "Here Comes the Comeback".
In 2023, English painter David Hockney painted a portrait of Harry Styles, which was included in the David Hockney: Drawing From Life exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Styles called the experience a "complete privilege".
In 2023, Harry Styles and Live Nation's partnership with Everytown for Gun Safety won a Pollstar Award for Brand Partnership/Live Campaign of the Year.
In 2023, Harry Styles's wealth was estimated to be £150 million, placing him jointly at 13th position in a new list headed "35 richest people under 35 in the UK."
In 2023, Harry Styles, along with Beyoncé and Taylor Swift, was credited for the rise in elaborate concert dressing, emulating fan culture of the 60s. After Styles wore Adidas Gazelles as part of every concert outfit on Love On Tour, Adidas officially renamed the shoes on their web store to "Satellite Stompers."
In 2023, Holmes Chapel experienced a surge in tourism, with 5,000 fans visiting the village. This demand led the Holmes Chapel Partnership to hire tour guides for the area.
In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Harry's House at number 491 on its revision of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list.
In May 2024, Harry Styles and Canadian actress Taylor Russell ended their relationship.
In June 2024, Harry Styles's childhood village of Holmes Chapel launched a guided walking tour. The tour, lasting 2.5-3 hours, includes locations like the bakery where Styles worked and the Tremlow Viaduct featured in the One Direction documentary. Due to high demand, the Holmes Chapel Partnership hired tour guides.
In July 2024, Harry Styles joined Stevie Nicks on stage at the British Summer Time festival in London to perform "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" and "Landslide" in tribute of Christine McVie's birthday.
In 2024, Anne Hathaway starred in the romantic comedy film The Idea of You, an adaption of the novel inspired by Harry Styles.
In 2024, Harry Styles invested in a minority stake in emerging British fashion label S.S. Daley.
In 2024, The Times estimated Harry Styles's wealth to be £175 million, placing him 17th on the "40 under 40" list and the second richest young musician in the UK after Ed Sheeran.
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