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Zayn Malik shares a daughter with his former partner, US model Gigi Hadid<\/p>\n
Zayn Malik has said he jumped at the chance to collaborate on a song with Blackpink’s Jisoo as his daughter is a “massive fan”.<\/p>\n
The former One Direction star, 32, released the track Eyes Closed alongside the South Korean pop star last month. <\/p>\n
While hosting his first BBC Radio 1 show, Zayn said that when Jisoo approached him about doing a feature he thought: “My daughter’s gonna think I’m cool again so I’ll definitely do that.”<\/p>\n
The singer shares five-year-old Khai with his former partner, US model Gigi Hadid.<\/p>\n
It ‘was an honour’<\/p>\n
It is not the first time Zayn has shared his love for the K-pop band. <\/p>\n
Over the summer, he posted a photo to his Instagram story of him holding his daughter in his arms while they attended a Blackpink concert, and wrote on the post “Me & Khai loved it”.<\/p>\n
During his two-hour Radio 1 special, Zayn said he was keen to work with Jisoo as she is “killing it at the minute”.<\/p>\n
“I’ve wavered a little bit from the pop sound myself, so to come back to it with the people who are basically owning that genre at the minute was an honour,” he said. <\/p>\n
“If I can say thanks to Jisoo, I’m really happy with the way it turned out.”<\/p>\n
Blackpink \u2013 comprised of members Jisoo, Jennie, Ros\u00e9 and Lisa \u2013 are one of the biggest K-pop girl bands in the world.<\/p>\n
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Zayn Malik rose to stardom alongside his fellow One Direction band members – Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne<\/p>\n
Alongside playing a few of his own songs during his radio special, Zayn shouted out some of his favourite artists including US rappers Lauryn Hill and Eminem.<\/p>\n
The Bradford-born singer also revealed his father was a “massive” fan of Biggie Smalls and he would blast songs by the US rapper loudly so the whole street could hear. <\/p>\n
“Rap music was a big influence in my younger years and that was definitely made more prominent by the fact that I was living in Bradford, for sure,” he said. <\/p>\n
The singer’s music career began in 2010 as part of One Direction, the boy band formed on TV talent contest, The X Factor. <\/p>\n
He rose to stardom alongside the other band members – Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne.<\/p>\n