Sam Smith

Samuel Frederick Smith (born 19 May 1992) is an English singer and songwriter. They rose to prominence in October 2012 after being featured on Disclosure's breakthrough single "Latch", which peaked at number eleven on the UK Singles Chart. Smith was subsequently featured on Naughty Boy's "La La La", which became a number one single in May 2013. In December 2013, they were nominated for the 2014 Brit Critics' Choice Award and the BBC's Sound of 2014 poll,[7][8] winning both.[9][10]

For other people named Sam Smith, see Sam Smith (disambiguation).

Sam Smith
Smith performing at the 2015 Lollapalooza
Born	Samuel Frederick Smith (1992-05-19) 19 May 1992 London, England
Occupation	Singer songwriter
Years active	2007-present
Net worth	£33 million (2020 estimate)[1]
Musical career
Genres	Pop[2][3] soul[4][5] pop-soul[6]
Instruments	Vocals
Labels	Capitol
Associated acts	Disclosure Jimmy Napes Naughty Boy
Website	samsmithworld.com

Smith's debut studio album, In the Lonely Hour, was released in May 2014 on Capitol Records UK.[11] The album's lead single, "Lay Me Down", was released prior to "La La La". The album's second single, "Money on My Mind", became Smith's second number one single in the UK.[12] The third single, "Stay with Me", was an international success, reaching number one in the UK and number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, while their singles "I'm Not the Only One" and "Like I Can" reached the top ten in the UK. The album won four awards, at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, including Best Pop Vocal Album, Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and nominations for Album of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.

For Smith's and Jimmy Napes's song "Writing's on the Wall", the theme for the James Bond film Spectre (2015), Smith won the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Original Song. 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", reached number one in the UK and Australia and number four in the US. Smith released the single "Promises" with Calvin Harris, and it reached number one in the UK. Smith initially released "Dancing with a Stranger", with Normani, as the lead single for Smith's third studio album, which reached the top ten in the UK and the US and was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2020 Brit Awards, along with "How Do You Sleep?", a cover of Donna Summer's 1977 classic "I Feel Love", and "To Die For",[13] until the album was postponed due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.[14] The single "I'm Ready" with Demi Lovato, was then released as the lead single for the upcoming album.[15]

Smith has won four Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, three Billboard Music Awards, and an American Music Award, as well as a Golden Globe and an Academy Award through their career. Smith is genderqueer and uses singular they/them pronouns.[16][17]

Early life

Samuel Frederick Smith[18] was born on 19 May 1992[19] in London to Frederick Smith and broker Kate Cassidy.[19][20] Smith was bullied for gynecomastia as a child and had liposuction at age 12.[21] They were part of Youth Music Theatre UK and appeared in the troupe's 2007 production of Oh! Carol, a musical featuring the music of Neil Sedaka.[22] Before entering the musical theatre, Smith had been in jazz bands.[23] While studying singing and songwriting under jazz pianist Joanna Eden for a number of years,[24] Smith attended St Mary's Catholic School in Bishop's Stortford[25] and was a member of the Bishop's Stortford Junior Operatics (now Bishops Stortford Musical Theatre Society) and the Cantate Youth Choir.[26]

Music career

2008–2009: Career beginnings with debut singles

Smith released two singles before 2010, "Bad Day All Week" and "When It's Alright".

2012–2013: Breakthrough

Smith was featured on the Disclosure song "Latch", which was released on 8 October 2012 and peaked at No. 11 on the UK Singles Chart. In February 2013, Smith released the first single from the debut album, "Lay Me Down", and later in the year featured on Naughty Boy's single "La La La". It was released on 19 May 2013 and peaked at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart. Smith's first EP Nirvana was released the following year. The first song on the EP, titled "Safe with Me", is produced by Two Inch Punch and was first broadcast on MistaJam's BBC Radio 1Xtra show on 24 July 2013.[27] 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".[28] Smith released the Disclosure, Nile Rodgers, and Jimmy Napes collaboration "Together" on 25 November 2013 as the only single from Settle: The Remixes.

2014–2016: In the Lonely Hour and international success

Smith singing in Glasgow in 2014

The second single from Smith's debut album, titled "Money on My Mind", was released on 16 February 2014. It was announced on 16 December that Smith's debut studio album, titled In the Lonely Hour, would be released on 26 May 2014 through Capitol Records.[11] Smith described the album as "all about unrequited love" as a result of personal experience, having never been loved back by any of their love interests.[29] The album reached number one in the UK Albums Chart 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 Taylor Swift.[30][31] In January 2015, In the Lonely Hour was named the second best selling album of 2014 in the UK, behind x by Ed Sheeran.[32] A live version of album track "I've Told You Now", performed at St Pancras Old Church, was made available as a free download as part of an Amazon.com promotion on 27 December 2013.[33] 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 iTunes Store promotion on 13 January 2014.[34] Smith went on their debut American headlining tour in the second quarter of 2014, with a setlist of primarily new material.[29]

On 20 January 2014, Smith made their American television debut performing "Latch" with Disclosure on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Smith also performed on Saturday Night Live on 29 March 2014, performing the gospel-tinged "Stay with Me" and an acoustic version of "Lay Me Down".[35][36][37] "Stay with Me" reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and number two on the US Billboard Hot 100.[38][39] The fourth single from the album, "I'm Not the Only One", reached number three in the UK and number five in the US.[39]

In June 2014, Smith first appeared on the cover of The Fader in its 92nd issue.[40] In August 2014, their single "Stay with Me" was named Variance Magazine's Song of Summer.[41] Smith performed "Stay With Me" live at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards on 24 August at The Forum in Inglewood, California.[42] On 15 November 2014, they joined the charity group Band Aid 30 along with other British and Irish pop acts, recording the latest version of the track "Do They Know It's Christmas?" at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London, to raise money for the 2014 Ebola crisis in Western Africa.[43]

Smith performing "Stay With Me" in Berlin, Germany in 2015

In 2015, it came to light that singer Tom Petty, noting similarities between "Stay with Me" and his 1989 hit song "I Won't Back Down", had negotiated an out-of-court settlement with Smith in October 2014. Petty and co-composer Jeff Lynne 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 Jimmy Napes) in the ASCAP song credit.[44] At the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, held on 8 February 2015, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Smith performed "Stay with Me" and also received four Grammy Awards: Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year (for "Stay with Me") and Best Pop Vocal Album (for In the Lonely Hour).[45] At the 2015 Brit Awards held at The O2 Arena in London on 25 February, they performed "Lay Me Down", and won the Brit Awards for British Breakthrough Act, and Global Success.[46]

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).[47] The same month, Smith recorded another version of the song, featuring John Legend, for the British charity telethon Comic Relief, which reached number one in the UK.[48] At the 2015 Billboard Music Awards on 17 May, Smith received three Billboard Awards: Top Male Artist, Top New Artist, and Top Radio Songs Artist.[49] They featured on Disclosure's single "Omen", which was released on 27 July 2015.[50]

On 8 September 2015, Smith and Jimmy Napes confirmed that they had composed "Writing's on the Wall", the theme song to Spectre, the 24th James Bond film.[51] The song was released on 25 September 2015 and became the first James Bond theme to reach number one in the UK.[52] On 19 October, Smith was presented with two Guinness World Records—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.[52] At the 73rd Golden Globe Awards on 10 January 2016, they received the Award for Best Original Song for "Writing's on the Wall".[53] On 14 January, the song earned Smith an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song.[54] In the nominations for the 2016 Brit Awards announced on 14 January, the song was among the nominees for Best British Video.[55] 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.[56] In their acceptance speech, Smith referenced an article by Ian McKellen 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 Dustin Lance Black,[57] but McKellen mentioned that the error "doesn't detract" from Smith's achievement.[58]

2016–2018: The Thrill of It All

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 Adam Lambert 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 Jimmy Napes and Naughty Boy. In April 2017, Smith was said to have been in studio sessions with classical crossover group Clean Bandit, working on a possible "comeback single". Along with Clean Bandit, record producer Timbaland and musician Frances said they had worked on songs for Smith's next album.[59]

On 8 September 2017, Smith released a new single titled "Too Good at Goodbyes",[60] which debuted at number one in the United Kingdom and number five on the US Billboard Hot 100.[61] 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.[62][63] 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 "Pray" featuring American rapper Logic. On 17 August 2018, the singer collaborated as the main vocalist on Calvin Harris's new track "Promises".[64] The song became Smith's seventh number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and their first top song on Billboard's Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart.[65] They also released the song "Fire on Fire" as the Watership Down soundtrack.

2019–present: Third album

In January 2019, Smith released the song "Dancing with a Stranger" with Normani as a single and it reached the top ten in the UK, the US and other countries.

On 6 July 2019, New 102.7 radio host Mike Adam announced the song "How Do You Sleep?" on their Twitter account on 6 July.[66] On 9 July 2019, Smith posted on social media that an announcement would be made the following day.[67][68] The pre-order link became active on 10 July,[69] and later the same day, they formally announced and shared a clip of the song.[70]

In October 2019, in a new interview with The Zach Sang Show, Smith expressed excitement about their upcoming record, which will land sometime in 2020. 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."[71]

On 13 February 2020, Smith revealed that a third studio album, then titled To Die For, was scheduled to be released on 1 May 2020.[72] Later on in the promotion, the album's release date was pushed back to June 2020.

On 30 March 2020, 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.[73]
"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.[74] 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.[73]

Influences

Smith cites Adele (left) and Amy Winehouse (right) as primary influences

Smith cites Adele and Amy Winehouse as primary influences.[75][76] In an interview with Rolling Stone, they cited Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey as the greatest R&B voices.[77][78] The singer also lists Britney Spears,[79] Chaka Khan, Christina Aguilera, Beyoncé, Brandy, and Lady Gaga as influences. Asked about the "diva qualities" of Smith's voice, the singer remarked:

"It's all I listened to. I actually didn't listen to male vocalists until about two years ago. I just listened to Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan. Massive voices."[80]

In an October 2017 interview for Attitude magazine, Smith spoke of the impact of the success of Smith's close friend Ed Sheeran. "It makes you push yourself. Watching him this past year has just been incredible, but yeah, of course it makes me hungry."[81]

Personal life

In May 2014, Smith came out to the public as gay, and acknowledged a relationship—since ended—with actor and model Jonathan Zeizel.[82][83] At the 57th Annual Grammy Awards when "Stay with Me" won an award for Record of the Year, 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!"[84] In October 2017, Smith stated that their latest album, The Thrill of It All, showed "the gay guy I've become".[85] 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.[86]

In October 2017, Smith came out as genderqueer,[87] and said "I feel just as much a woman as I am a man",[85] talking about a period in their youth where they "didn't own a piece of male clothing and would wear full makeup while attending school".[88][89] In September 2019, Smith announced a decision to come out as non-binary and change their gender pronouns to 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..."[16][17]

Smith is the third cousin of singer Lily Allen and actor Alfie Allen.[90] Smith is the godparent of close friend and collaborator Jimmy Napes's son.[91]

Smith identifies as a feminist.[92]

Smith has struggled with body image issues since their pre-teen years and has been open about this in interviews.[21]

Discography

Main article: Sam Smith discography

• In the Lonely Hour (2014)
• The Thrill of It All (2017)

Tours

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

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Sam Smith

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External links

• Official website (samsmithworld.com)
• Profile, samsmithsinger.com; accessed 14 February 2015.
• Smith profile, MTV.com; accessed 14 February 2015.

Preceded by Adele "Skyfall", 2012	James Bond title artist "Writing's on the Wall", 2015	Succeeded by Billie Eilish "No Time to Die", 2020

Preceded by The National	Saturday Night Live musical guest 29 March 2014	Succeeded by Pharrell Williams

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Common and John Legend	Academy Award for Best Original Song 2015	Succeeded by Justin Hurwitz and Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Preceded by Common and John Legend	Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song 2015	Succeeded by Justin Hurwitz and Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Preceded by Bastille	Brit Award for Best New Artist 2015	Succeeded by Catfish and the Bottlemen
Preceded by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis	Grammy Award for Best New Artist 2015	Succeeded by Meghan Trainor
Preceded by Tom Odell	Brit Award for Rising Star 2014	Succeeded by James Bay