Liam Payne was returning to his musical roots in what would turn into his ultimate tv look earlier than his premature dying in October 2024.

On Tuesday, Netflix dropped the trailer for its upcoming music competitors sequence “Constructing the Band,” that includes the late singer as a visitor choose alongside Kelly Rowland and Nicole Scherzinger.

The sequence, set to premiere July 9, marks Liam Payne’s final filmed challenge and highlights his ardour for mentoring younger expertise, a job that felt particularly becoming given his historical past as a founding member of One Path.

Showing wholesome and upbeat within the trailer, Payne is seen providing recommendation and sincere suggestions to contestants who’re tasked with forming bands primarily based solely on vocal chemistry, with out ever seeing each other.

“I have to really feel that connection between you guys,” he says in a single clip, urging aspiring artists to dig deeper.

“To have these bands put collectively just isn’t regular,” Payne provides, reflecting on his personal expertise. “We [One Direction] had been put collectively that means.”

“Constructing the Band,” hosted by Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean, challenges 50 singers to create six totally different bands from behind soundproof cubicles, relying solely on what they hear, not what they see.

It’s a full-circle second for Payne, who rose to stardom after being positioned in One Path throughout the 2010 season of “The X Issue.” Scherzinger, then a visitor choose, performed an important function in forming the beloved boy band alongside Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh.

Tragically, Payne died on October 16, 2024, after falling from a third-story balcony on the CasaSur Palermo Lodge in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was 31.

In keeping with ABC Information, a partial post-mortem revealed a number of substances in his system on the time of his dying, together with cocaine, crack, benzodiazepine, and “pink cocaine,” a cocktail of methamphetamine, ketamine, and MDMA.

Authorities additionally discovered an improvised aluminum pipe in his resort room, reportedly used to ingest the medicine. A preliminary report concluded that Payne suffered inside and exterior trauma, together with a cranial fracture that precipitated his instant dying.

Native authorities advised TMZ they imagine he was beneath the affect of a drug known as “cristal,” identified for inflicting excessive emotional highs and lows, and doubtlessly aggressive habits.

Within the weeks main as much as his tragic dying, Payne was reportedly grappling with a critical drug habit that these near him feared was spiraling uncontrolled.

In keeping with trade sources cited by Web page Six, the previous One Path star had just lately been dropped by his file label, Common Music, and shortly afterward, by his London-based publicist. “Liam was battling a really important drug habit and his remedy, as those that knew him will attest, was not working,” one insider stated.

Whereas Payne had spent 100 days in a Louisiana rehab facility in 2023, his return to the highlight was allegedly being pushed too rapidly by a younger and impressive crew desperate to get him again on the street.