At a recent BIC and iHeartMedia event, Charlie Puth opened up about his connection to Liam Payne and how a One Direction song introduced him to his main collaborator.

Liam Payne tributes poured in Wednesday afternoon in the hours following his sudden death after falling from the balcony of his Buenos Aires hotel. Charlie Puth and Dan Richards, guitarist for the late pop star's U.

Payne was 31 when he died in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Wednesday, Oct. 16, after he fell multiple stories at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel