BIOGRAPHY
Day 1 Wednesday Date: 26 February 2020 Time: 14.08 – 14.13 First Person Zayn Malik His biography Zain Javadd Malik is known mononymously as Zayn Malik is an English singer and songwriter. Zayn was born on 12 January 1993 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. His father, Yaser Malik, is a British Pakistani; his mother, Tricia Brannan Malik, is partly English and partly of Irish descent (she converted to Islam upon her marriage). Zayn has one older sister, Doniya, and two younger sisters, Waliyha and Safaa. Zayn grew up in East Bowling, south of Bradford city center, in a working-class family and neighborhood. He attended Lower Fields Primary School and Tong High School in Bradford. Zayn has stated that he started taking pride in his appearance after moving schools at the age of twelve, and as a teenager, he took performing arts courses and appeared in school productions. He grew up listening to his father's urban musi...