[Musicians] Sam Smith

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• Musician Name:Samuel Frederick Smith
• Birthday / Location: May 19, 1992 (age 31) London, England, United Kingdom of England
• Main instrument: Pop soul house R&B
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• Other Information: Samuel Frederick Smith (London, May 19, 1992), known by his stage name Sam Smith, is a British personality who works as a musician and songwriter. Smith has won four Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe, an Oscar and three BRIT Awards during his career.He achieved career recognition when he recorded the vocals on the song “Latch” (2012), by the English duo Disclosure. The following year, he collaborated with singer Naughty Boy, on the song "La La La" (2013), giving him further recognition.
• His first album, In the Lonely Hour, was released in 2014. The work was a commercial success worldwide, selling twelve million copies,[9] and reaching number one in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Africa in the South and Sweden, in the United States it peaked at number two. The album was awarded the Grammy Awards for Best Pop Vocal Album in 2015. That same year, Smith was the most awarded person in the award and one of the most nominated. In addition to having been nominated for the highest category of the Album of the Year award. The first single from the project was the track Lay Me Down, which was released on February 15, 2013 and which reached number forty-six in the United Kingdom, the The track was re-released in 2015, and peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100, in addition to reaching number fifteen again in the UK.
• In 2014, Smith was the seventh person to win the UK Critics' Choice UK Music Awards from the BRIT Awards, including the Global Success Award from the same awards. On September 8, 2015, he confirmed that he would record the new theme song for the twenty-fourth film in the James Bond franchise SPECTER (2015), for this song, Smith won the Oscar for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe for Best Original Song , among other prizes. Among his other major awards are three Billboard Music Awards, an American Music Awards, a BET Awards, six MOBO Awards, among many other awards. His musical achievements have also earned him two mentions in the Guinness World Records.
• Samuel Frederick Smith was born in London, England. His mother, Kate Cassidy, a currency trader, was fired in 2008 because her bosses thought she was devoting too much time to pursuing Sam's musical ambitions, then fifteen. Smith has two sisters, Mabel and Lily Smith, and British singer Lily Allen is his third cousin. Smith took formal singing lessons from a jazz singer at age eight after his parents heard him sing Whitney Houston's My Love Is Your Love on a morning trip to Catholic elementary school. Smith spent his childhood and adolescence in theater rehearsals. His mother often asked him to perform for friends and business associates at dinner parties. When he was twelve years old, six different managers were looking after his career. Before his rise to fame at age twenty-one, Smith studied music, sang in choirs and bands, and performed in musical theater productions. He developed a passionate approach to singing, following the example of his favorite artistic references of the time: Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan. Smith was a student at Youth Music Theater UK and starred in the 2007 production of "Oh! Carol". he also studied at St. Thomas More Primary and St Mary's Catholic School, Bishop's Stortford. He was a member of Bishop's Stortford Junior Operatics (now Bishops Stortford Musical Theater Society) and the Cantate Youth Choir.
• Smith said in a recent interview that his mother had known that Sam was gay since he was three years old, but that he didn't reveal his sexual orientation until he was ten. Sam came out as gay in May 2015 in his acceptance speech at the 57th Grammy Awards, when he went to receive one of the four categories in which he won, Smith thanked the man he was inspired to write the songs for his first album In the Lonely Hour, and as gender-queer in October 2017, but it wasn't until September 2019 that he assumed his non-binarity and said that his preferred pronouns are they/them (English neutral/Epicene pronouns) declaring: "after From a lifetime at war with my gender, I decided to accept who I am, inside and out [...] In an interview for the series premiere of I Weigh, actress Jameela Jamil talks to people about body acceptance and self-image, declared: "I am neither male nor female. I think I float somewhere between the two."