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Samuel Frederick Smith (born 19 May 1992) is an English singer and songwriter. After rising to prominence in October 2012 by featuring on Disclosure's breakthrough single "

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", which peaked at number eleven on the

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, they were subsequently featured on

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's " La La La", which became a number one single in May 2013. In December 2013, Smith was nominated for the 2014 Brit Critics' Choice Award and the

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's Sound of 2014 poll, winning both. Smith's debut studio album, ''

In the Lonely Hour ''In the Lonely Hour'' is the debut album by English singer and songwriter Sam Smith. It was released in the United Kingdom on 26 May 2014 via Capitol UK and Method Records. In the United States, it was released on 17 June 2014 through Capitol ...

'', was released in May 2014 on

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. The album's lead single, " Lay Me Down", was released prior to "La La La". The album's second single, "

Money on My Mind "Money on My Mind" is a song by English singer Sam Smith, and the second single from their debut studio album, ''In the Lonely Hour'' (2014). The song was released in Italy on 27 December 2013. It was later released in the UK on 12 February 201 ...

", became their second number one single in the UK. The third single, " Stay with Me", was internationally successful, reaching number one in the UK and number two on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, while subsequent singles "

I'm Not the Only One "I'm Not the Only One" is a song recorded by English singer Sam Smith from their debut studio album, ''In the Lonely Hour'' (2014). It was written by Smith with Jimmy Napes, who also produced the song along with Steve Fitzmaurice. Capitol Recor ...

" and "

Like I Can "Like I Can" is a song by English singer Sam Smith. It was released as a digital download on 5 December 2014 as the fifth single from their debut studio album, ''In the Lonely Hour'' (2014). The song was written by Smith and Matt Prime and prod ...

" reached the top ten in the UK. The album won four awards, at the

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, including

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, Song of the Year, and nominations for Album of the Year and

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. For Smith's and

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's song " Writing's on the Wall", the theme for the

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'' (2015), they won the

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and the

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. Smith's second studio album, '' The Thrill of It All'', was released in November 2017 and debuted atop the UK and US album charts. The lead single, "

Too Good at Goodbyes "Too Good at Goodbyes" is a song by English singer Sam Smith. It was written by James Napier, Tor Hermansen, Mikkel Eriksen and Smith, and produced by Napes, Steve Fitzmaurice and StarGate. It was released on 8 September 2017 through Capitol R ...

", reached number one in the UK and Australia and number four in the US. Following the 2018 single " Promises" with

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, which peaked at number one in the UK, Smith released "

Dancing with a Stranger "Dancing with a Stranger" is a song by British singer Sam Smith and American singer Normani. It was written by Smith, Normani, Jimmy Napes, Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Hermansen, and produced by Stargate and Napes. "Dancing with a Stranger" was rel ...

" with

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in 2019, which reached the top ten in the UK and the US and was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2020 Brit Awards; and later " How Do You Sleep?", all of which feature on their third album, '' Love Goes'' (2020). In 2022, Smith's single "

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" with

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, from Smith's forthcoming fourth album '' Gloria'' (2023), became their first number one single in the US. Smith's achievements include four

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s, three

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, three ''Billboard'' Music Awards, and an

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, as well as a Golden Globe and an

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Early life

Samuel Frederick Smith was born in

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on 19 May 1992, to Frederick Smith and broker Kate Cassidy, They grew up in Great Chishill, where they attended Thomas More Primary School. They were bullied for having

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as a child and underwent liposuction at age 12. As part of

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, Smith appeared in the troupe's 2007 production of ''Oh! Carol'', a musical featuring the music of

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. Before entering the musical theatre, they had been in jazz bands. While studying singing and songwriting under jazz pianist

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for a number of years, Smith attended St Mary's Catholic School in

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and was a member of the Bishop's Stortford Junior Operatics (now Bishops Stortford Musical Theatre Society) and the Cantate Youth Choir.

Music career

2008–2009: Career beginnings with debut singles

Smith released two singles before 2010, " Bad Day All Week" from 2008 and "

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" from 2009.

2012–2013: Breakthrough

Smith was featured on the

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song "

", which was released on 8 October 2012 and peaked at No. 11 on the

. In February 2013, Smith released the first single from their debut album, " Lay Me Down", and later in the year featured on

's single " La La La". It was released on 19 May 2013 and peaked at No. 1 on the

. Smith's first EP ''

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'' was released the following year. The first song on the EP, titled "

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", is produced by Two Inch Punch and was first broadcast on

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show on 24 July 2013. The second song on the EP is titled "Nirvana" and is produced by Craze & Hoax and Jonathan Creek. The EP also includes Smith's acoustic solo version of "Latch" and a live version of "I've Told You Now". Smith released the Disclosure,

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, and

collaboration "Together" on 25 November 2013 as the only single from '' Settle: The Remixes''.

2014–2016: ''In the Lonely Hour'' and international success

The second single from Smith's debut album, titled "

", was released on 16 February 2014. It was announced on 16 December that Smith's debut studio album, titled ''

'', would be released on 26 May 2014 through

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. Smith described the album as "all about unrequited love" stemming from personal experience, having never been loved back by any previous love interests. The album reached number one in the

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and number two on the ''Billboard'' 200, and by 5 November it had become the second biggest selling album of 2014 in the US behind only '' 1989'' by

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. In January 2015, ''In the Lonely Hour'' was named the second best selling album of 2014 in the UK, behind '' x'' by

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. A live version of album track "I've Told You Now", performed at

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, was made available as a free download as part of an

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promotion on 27 December 2013. The album track "Make It To Me", co-written by Howard of Disclosure and Jimmy Napes, was made available as a free download as part of an

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promotion on 13 January 2014. Smith went on their debut American headlining tour in the second quarter of 2014, with a setlist of primarily new material. On 20 January 2014, Smith made their American television debut performing "Latch" with Disclosure on ''

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''. Smith also performed on ''

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'' on 29 March 2014, performing the

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-tinged " Stay with Me" and an acoustic version of "Lay Me Down". "Stay with Me" reached number one on the

and number two on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100."Sam Smith Album & Single Chart History"
Billboard. Retrieved 5 December 2014. The fourth single from the album, "

", reached number three in the UK and number five in the US. In June 2014, Smith first appeared on the cover of ''

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'' in its 92nd issue. In August 2014, their single "Stay with Me" was named Variance Magazine's Song of Summer. Smith performed "Stay With Me" live at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards on 24 August at The Forum in

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. On 15 November 2014, they joined the charity group

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along with other British and Irish pop acts, recording the latest version of the track "

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" at

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, London, to raise money for the 2014 Ebola crisis in

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In 2015, it came to light that singer

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, noting similarities between "Stay with Me" and his 1989 hit song "

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", had negotiated an out-of-court settlement with Smith in October 2014. Petty and co-composer

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were awarded 12.5 percent of the royalties from "Stay with Me", and the names of Petty and Lynne joined James John Napier (known professionally as

) in the

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song credit. At the

, held on 8 February 2015, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Smith performed "Stay with Me" and also received four Grammy Awards:

and Song of the Year (for "Stay with Me") and

(for ''In the Lonely Hour''). At the

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held at

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in London on 25 February, they performed "Lay Me Down", and won the Brit Awards for British Breakthrough Act, and Global Success. In March 2015, "Lay Me Down" was re-released as the sixth single from the album, peaking at number 8 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 (Smith's third US top 10 single). The same month, Smith recorded another version of the song, featuring

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, for the British charity telethon

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, which reached number one in the UK. At the

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on 17 May, Smith received three Billboard Awards: Top Male Artist, Top New Artist, and Top Radio Songs Artist. They featured on

's single " Omen", which was released on 27 July 2015. On 8 September 2015, Smith and Jimmy Napes confirmed that they had composed " Writing's on the Wall", the theme song to ''

'', the 24th

film. The song was released on 25 September 2015 and became the first James Bond theme to reach number one in the UK. On 19 October, Smith was presented with two ''

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''—one for recording the first James Bond theme song to go to number one in the UK and another for scoring the most consecutive weeks in the UK top 10 by a debut album, for ''In the Lonely Hour''. At the

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on 10 January 2016, they received the Award for Best Original Song for "Writing's on the Wall". On 14 January, the song earned Smith an

nomination for

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. In the nominations for the

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announced on 14 January, the song was among the nominees for Best British Video. Smith performed "Writing's on the Wall" at the Academy Awards on 28 February and, along with Napes, collected the prize for Best Original Song. In their acceptance speech, Smith referenced an article by

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published before the awards ceremony that claimed no openly gay man had won an Oscar for Best Actor; Smith misquoted McKellen as saying that no gay man in general had won an Oscar. This was quickly discredited by openly gay recipient

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, but McKellen mentioned that the error "doesn't detract" from Smith's achievement.

2016–2018: ''The Thrill of It All''

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Throughout 2016, Smith released footage of themself in the studio working on new music, leading up to the release of their second studio album. In late 2016, Smith was said to be working with

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on new material. In early 2017, it was reported that Smith would be releasing their second album in September 2017 and had recorded with constant collaborator

and

. In April 2017, Smith was said to have been in studio sessions with

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, working on a possible "comeback single". Along with Clean Bandit, record producer

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and musician

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said they had worked on songs for Smith's next album. On 8 September 2017, Smith released a new single titled "

", which debuted at number one in the United Kingdom and number five on the US Billboard Hot 100. Their second studio album, '' The Thrill of It All'', debuted atop the UK Albums Chart and the US ''Billboard'' 200, becoming their first number one album in the US. On 20 March 2018, Smith started The Thrill of It All Tour, which visited Europe, North America, Asia, New Zealand and Australia. On 27 March 2018, they released "

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" featuring American rapper

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. On 17 August 2018, the singer collaborated as the main vocalist on

's new track " Promises". The song became Smith's seventh number one hit on the

and their first top song on ''Billboards

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chart. They also released the song "

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" as the ''

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'' soundtrack.

2019–present: ''Love Goes'' and ''Gloria''

In January 2019, Smith released the song "

" with

as a single and it reached the top ten in the UK, the US and other countries. In February, Smith performed a medley of songs alongside

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and

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at the 2019 Brit Awards held at the O₂ Arena in London. On 6 July 2019,

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radio host Mike Adam announced the song " How Do You Sleep?" on their Twitter account. On 9 July 2019, Smith posted on social media that an announcement would be made the following day. The pre-order link became active on 10 July, and later the same day, they formally announced and shared a clip of the song. In October 2019, in an interview with ''The Zach Sang Show'', Smith expressed excitement about their upcoming record. The singer also confirmed that their newest offering will feature fewer ballads and plenty of poppier tracks in the vein of their recent two previous singles. "I feel like I have recently shown a side of me which I normally keep to myself or for my family and friends," Smith told Sang. "I showed everyone it and everyone loved it. It's almost given me permission to kinda do what I've always dreamed of doing but I was always scared to do, which is pop music." The singer also described having been spurred on to write new music following a 2018 collaboration with Calvin Harris, "Promises". "I just naturally started getting back into the studio and started to write," they said. "I caught this wind and started riding this wave and I haven't stopped writing since." On 13 February 2020, Smith revealed that a third studio album, then titled ''To Die For'', was scheduled to be released on 1 May. On 30 March, Smith announced that, due to the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, they would be delaying the release of their third album and would include a number of changes to the album track list and the title, as they would continue to work on it. However, they did state that it would still be released sometime within 2020. "I'm Ready (Sam Smith and Demi Lovato song), I'm Ready", a collaboration with American singer Demi Lovato was released on 16 April and charted well in the top 40 of several countries. On 6 July, Smith released their cover of Coldplay's "Fix You". They had originally performed the song earlier in May for the iHeartRadio Living Room Series. On 17 September, they released a new single, "Diamonds (Sam Smith song), Diamonds", and then announced the new title for their third album, '' Love Goes'', which was released on 30 October. On 29 September they announced that they would be performing a livestream concert on 30 October from Abbey Road Studios in London, their only live performance of 2020. The concert featured guest appearances by British actress Jade Anouka on "My Oasis" and singer Labrinth on "Love Goes", and included a cover version of "Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper song), Time After Time", which drew praise from the song's original singer and writer Cyndi Lauper. The concert was recorded and released as a live album, ''Love Goes: Live at Abbey Road Studios'', on 19 March 2021. The same year, Smith recorded a cover of "You Will Be Found", in collaboration with Summer Walker, for the soundtrack album of the Dear Evan Hansen (film), 2021 film adaptation of ''Dear Evan Hansen''. Their version of the song also plays during the closing credits of the film itself. On 25 August 2022, Smith announced that they had collaborated with German singer

on a song titled "

", with Petras calling it "the best song" she has been part of. The first single from Smith’s fourth studio album '' Gloria'', it reached number one in the UK, the US (Smith’s first US chart topper), Australia and other markets. On 18 November, Smith released the single "Night Before Christmas", which will be added to their EP ''The Holly & the Ivy''.

Artistry

Influences

Smith cited Adele and Amy Winehouse as primary influences."This Week's Fresh Music" (17 May 2014). 4Music. Retrieved 28 July 2015 They admire Adele's "honesty in her music" and the way she has handled fame; they expressed a wish to maintain a similar public image. Winehouse's debut album ''Frank (Amy Winehouse album), Frank'' was the first album Smith ever bought. Early in their career, Smith received advice from Mary J. Blige and Chaka Khan, both of whom they listened to during their youth; Smith said that this inspired them to offer help to new artists themself. They called

a "role model" and praised her "soulfulness" as well as her "honesty". Smith stated that the story of Lady Gaga's career beginnings encouraged them to move to London in order to start their own career. They also credited her with helping them come out as non-binary. Smith described Robyn as a major influence on ''Love Goes'' and said that they listened to her "nonstop" while making the album because they "could dance and be sad at the same time and feel empowered". They further cited Beyoncé and Christina Aguilera as sources of inspiration and empowerment. Speaking to ''Rolling Stone'' in January 2016, Smith named Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey as the greatest Rhythm and blues, R&B voices. Smith's other influences include Britney Spears and Brandy Norwood, Brandy. In an October 2017 interview for ''Attitude (magazine), Attitude'' magazine, Smith spoke of the impact of their close friend

's success: "It makes you push yourself. Watching him this past year has just been incredible, but yeah, of course it makes me hungry." They had previously mentioned to ''GQ'' in January 2015 that they "envy the competition that people like Frank Sinatra, [Frank] Sinatra would have [...] because you could tell he was working off them".

Vocal style

A VH1 profile of Smith's vocal coach

noted that their vocal range "can soar from baritone to tenor for dramatic effect". Smith places a lot of emphasis on their voice and stated they tried to make it the main element of their debut album ''In the Lonely Hour''. Following the release of the album, their vocals were often compared to those of Adele. Jessica Robertson of ''

'' considers that Smith represents "a return of the virtuosic vocalist in popular music", in the vein of Whitney Houston and Luther Vandross. Jim Farber wrote for ''The New York Daily News'' that Smith is "utterly unafraid to sound feminine"; Mary J. Blige thought that Smith was a black woman when she first heard them sing on Disclosure's "Latch". Asked about the "diva quality" of their voice, Smith remarked in January 2014:

Personal life

In May 2014, Smith Coming out, came out to the public as gay and acknowledged a relationship—since ended—with actor and model Jonathan Zeizel. At the

when " Stay with Me" won an award for

, they said, "I want to thank the man who this record is about, who I fell in love with last year. Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys!" In October 2017, Smith stated that their latest album, '' The Thrill of It All'', showed "the gay guy I've become". In September 2017, Smith revealed a relationship with actor Brandon Flynn in an interview on ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show''. In June 2018, it was announced that Smith and Flynn had split after nine months of dating. In October 2017, Smith came out as genderqueer, saying, "I feel just as much a woman as I am a man" and speaking of a period in their youth where they "didn't own a piece of male clothing and would wear full makeup while attending school". In September 2019, they announced a decision to come out as Non-binary gender, non-binary and change their gender pronouns to Singular they, they/them, stating, "After a lifetime of being at war with my gender I've decided to embrace myself for who I am, inside and out..." Smith is the godparent of close friend and collaborator

's son. They identify as a feminist. They have struggled with body image issues since their Preadolescence, preteen years and have been open about this in interviews.

Discography

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'' (2014) *'' The Thrill of It All'' (2017) *'' Love Goes'' (2020) *'' Gloria'' (2023)

Tours

*In the Lonely Hour Tour (2015) *The Thrill of It All Tour (2018)

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Notes

References

External links

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Early life

Music career

2008–2009: Career beginnings with debut singles

2012–2013: Breakthrough

2014–2016: ''In the Lonely Hour'' and international success

2016–2018: ''The Thrill of It All''

2019–present: ''Love Goes'' and ''Gloria''

Artistry

Influences

Vocal style

Personal life

Discography

Tours

Filmography

Awards and nominations

See also

Notes

References

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