30 Facts About Sam Smith

Samuel Frederick Smith was born on 19 May 1992 and is an English singer and songwriter.

Sam Smith's achievements include five Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, three Billboard Music Awards, and an American Music Award, as well as a Golden Globe and an Academy Award.

Sam Smith is the first openly non-binary musician to both release a song that reached No 1 at the Billboard Hot 100 and to win a Grammy Award.

Samuel Frederick Smith was born in London on 19 May 1992, to Frederick Smith and broker Kate Cassidy.

Sam Smith grew up in Great Chishill, where they attended Thomas More Primary School.

Sam Smith attended the Anglican St Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden, with family members, as a youth.

Sam Smith released two singles, "Bad Day All Week" in 2008 and "When It's Alright" in 2009.

Sam 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, Sam Smith released the first single from their debut album, "Lay Me Down", and later in the year featured on Naughty Boy's single "La La La".

Sam Smith released the Disclosure, Nile Rodgers, and Jimmy Napes collaboration "Together" on 25 November 2013 as the only single from Settle: The Remixes.

In December 2013, Sam Smith was nominated for the 2014 Brit Critics' Choice Award and the BBC's Sound of 2014 poll, winning both.

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

Sam 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, Sam Smith made their American television debut performing "Latch" with Disclosure on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

Sam Smith performed on Saturday Night Live on 29 March 2014, performing the gospel-tinged "Stay with Me" and an acoustic version of "Lay Me Down".

Sam Smith performed "Stay With Me" live at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards on 24 August at The Forum in Inglewood, California.

At the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, held on 8 February 2015, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Sam Smith performed "Stay with Me" and received four Grammy Awards: Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album.

At the 2015 Billboard Music Awards on 17 May, Sam Smith received three Billboard Awards: Top Male Artist, Top New Artist, and Top Radio Songs Artist.

On 8 September 2017, Sam Smith released a new single titled "Too Good at Goodbyes", which debuted at number one in the United Kingdom and number five on the US Billboard Hot 100.

On 20 March 2018, Sam Smith started The Thrill of It All Tour, which visited Europe, North America, Asia, New Zealand and Australia.

In January 2019, Sam 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.

In February, Sam Smith performed a medley of songs alongside Calvin Harris, Rag'n'Bone Man and Dua Lipa at the 2019 Brit Awards held at the O2 Arena in London.

On 13 February 2020, Sam Smith revealed that a third studio album, then titled To Die For, was scheduled to be released on 1 May On 30 March, Sam 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.

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.

Sam Smith stated that the story of Lady Gaga's career beginnings encouraged them to move to London in order to start their own career.

Jessica Robertson of The Fader considers that Sam 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".

In September 2017, Sam Smith revealed a relationship with actor Brandon Flynn in an interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

In October 2017, Sam 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".

Sam Smith is the godparent of close friend and collaborator Jimmy Napes's son.