1. Sam Sparro was signed to the British record label Island Records.
24 Facts About Sam Sparro
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Sam Sparro was born 8 November 1982 and raised in Sydney, Australia.
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Sam Sparro's father, Chris F n is a gospel minister and recording artist of Maltese descent and of Portuguese descent who has written music for Star Trek and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
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Sam Sparro's brother plays guitar professionally while his mother plays organ at a Baptist church.
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The family relocated to Los Angeles when Sam Sparro was ten years old.
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Sam Sparro's father had signed a deal there and was recording a soul album, he took Sparro to a church in Tujunga to hear some of the genre's singers.
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Chaka Khan became one of his early admirers after hearing Sam Sparro's singing through knowing the McCrarys.
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Sam Sparro left Los Angeles and returned to Sydney, where he lived with his grandparents and worked for a public relations company, before travelling to the UK, immersing himself in the music scene in London.
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Sam Sparro returned to Los Angeles in 2002, where he took a job in a coffee shop.
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When growing up, Sam Sparro regularly performed backing vocals at his father's concerts and on his music releases.
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Sam Sparro did an interview for Attitude magazine and was featured on the front cover.
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Sam Sparro married DJ Zion Lennox in a private ceremony in California on 21 September 2018.
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Sparro's self-titled debut album, Sam Sparro, was released in the UK in April 2008 and reached the top five on the UK Albums Chart, eventually receiving a gold certification from the BPI for selling 100,000 copies.
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In September 2008, Sam Sparro was nominated for five ARIA Music Awards.
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Sam Sparro's tour that month formed part of the Wonky Pop tour; Wonky Pop is a new genre of music created by artists such as Sparro and Alphabeat.
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Sam Sparro is featured on the Basement Jaxx single "Feelings Gone", released in September 2009.
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Sam Sparro collaborated on a track called "Soles on Fire" with Chauffeur, which consists of Sparro, Theophilus London and producer Mark Ronson.
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Sam Sparro co-wrote Voodoo with Adam Lambert, a song that appears on the international and tour editions of Lambert's album For Your Entertainment and digital ep Remixes.
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Sam Sparro stated via his Twitter that the video is an art project, and the song was not released as a single.
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Sam Sparro announced his second album, Return to Paradise, on his newly redesigned website.
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Sam Sparro collaborated with Adam Lambert again for Lambert's second album Trespassing, co-writing Shady and Broken English with Lambert and Lester Mendez.
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In late 2013, Sam Sparro released his first mixtape Mechanical to SoundCloud, featuring sixteen songs.
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Sam Sparro is currently working on and directing the music video for "Hang on To Your Love".
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The release was appropriately timed as Sam Sparro posted a link to the track on his Facebook and Twitter accounts with the words "Happy Valentines Day Lovers".