"I'm a convert to the concert/And I did that for inflation/’Cause I worked hard in a white band/And they still laughed at the Asian," he says. The son of a Pakistani Muslim father and an English mother of Irish descent,

Zayn Malik appeared to call out racism he faced during his One Direction days as he shared a preview of a soon-to-be-released song, 'Fuchsia Sea,' on Instagram on July 5. The singer was a part of the boy band with Harry Styles,