Shawn Mendes honored the memory of the late One Direction singer, Liam Payne, with a special tribute at his Brooklyn concert on Friday.
The Senorita singer paused his concert to make a heartfelt speech and shared that Payne’s death had left him “completely devastated.”
“I got to meet Liam a couple of times, and he was a beautiful soul and his eyes gleamed, it was beautiful,” Mendes began. “It’s about grieving those we miss with tears and it’s also about celebrating them and who they were and what they left in this world.”
The Stitches crooner added, while looking up at the sky, that he wanted to take a moment to “send so much love” to the Teardrops singer “wherever he is up there.”
A sorrowful Mendes continued, “The world is crying for you, brother, and we’re all praying for your son and your family. I miss you.”
“This one’s for you tonight, Liam, from all of us,” the Treat You Better musician said before launching into a heartrending unreleased song, Heart of Gold, about grief and loss.
The lyrics to the emotional song went like this: “You had a heart of gold/You left too soon, it was out of your control/Underneath your skin and bone/You had a heart of gold.”
Payne met his untimely death after he fell off a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 16th, 2024. The late musician is survived by his seven-year-old son Bear, whom he shared with ex-girlfriend Cheryl Cole.
