Samuel Frederick Smith (born 19 May 1992) is an English singer and songwriter. Smith 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. Their subsequent feature—on Naughty Boy’s “La La La”— became a number one single in May 2013. In December 2013, Smith was nominated for the 2014 Brit Critics’ Choice Award and the BBC’s Sound of 2014 poll,winning both.
Smith’s debut studio album, In the Lonely Hour, was released in May 2014 on Capitol Records UK. The album’s lead single, “Lay Me Down”, was released prior to “La La La”. Its second single, “Money on My Mind”, became Smith’s second number one single in the UK.
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 the fourth single “I’m Not the Only One” reached the top five in both countries. Its fifth single, “Like I Can”, reached number nine in the United Kingdom. They made their United States debut on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, followed by a performance on Saturday Night Live in March 2014.
In December 2014, Smith was nominated for six Grammy Awards, and at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards in February 2015 they won four: Best New Artist, “Stay with Me” for Record of the Year and Song of the Year, and In the Lonely Hour for Best Pop Vocal Album. At the 2015 Brit Awards, they won the awards for British Breakthrough Act and Global Success.
At the 2015 Billboard Music Awards, Smith received three Billboard Awards: Top Male Artist, Top New Artist, and Top Radio Songs Artist. Their musical achievements have also led them to be mentioned twice in the Guinness World Records.
For their and Jimmy Napes’ 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. Their second studio album, The Thrill of It All, was released in November 2017, and debuted atop the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200. The lead single, “Too Good at Goodbyes”, reached number one in the UK and Australia and number four in the US.
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