Sam Smith

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.

Samuel Frederick Smith (born 19 May 1992) is an English singer and songwriter.

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

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

They were bullied for having breasts as a child and underwent liposuction at age 12.

As part of Youth Music Theatre UK, Smith appeared in the troupe's 2007 production of ''Oh!

Carol'', a musical featuring the music of Neil Sedaka.

Before entering the musical theatre, they had been in jazz bands.

While studying singing and songwriting under jazz pianist Joanna Eden for a number of years, Smith attended St Mary's Catholic School in Bishop's Stortford and was a member of the Bishop's Stortford Junior Operatics (now Bishops Stortford Musical Theatre Society) and the Cantate Youth Choir.

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

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

On the UK Albums Chart, In the Lonely Hour was the best-selling debut album of the 2010s and the sixth best-selling album of the decade, while collectively Smith's albums spent the fourth-most weeks at number one in the 2010s, behind Ed Sheeran, Adele and Eminem.

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

In October 2012, they performed on Disclosure's breakthrough single "Latch", which peaked at number eleven on the UK Singles Chart.

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.

The following year, they performed on Naughty Boy's 2013 single "La La La", which became a number one single on the chart.

In February 2013, 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".

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.

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".

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, 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 through Capitol Records UK.

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 their second number one single in the UK.

Its third single, "Stay with Me", was internationally successful, reaching number one in the UK and number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, while subsequent singles "I'm Not the Only One" and "Like I Can" reached the top ten in the UK.

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.

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

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.

Smith's song "Writing's on the Wall" served as the theme for the James Bond film Spectre (2015), and won Smith a Golden Globe Award and an 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.

Its lead single, "Too Good at Goodbyes" reached number one in the UK and Australia and number four in the US.

Following the 2018 single "Promises" (with Calvin Harris), which peaked at number one in the UK, Smith released "Dancing with a Stranger" (with Normani) in 2019, which peaked within the top ten in the UK and the US, also receiving a nomination for Song of the Year at the 2020 Brit Awards.

The singles, along with "How Do You Sleep?" would precede the release of their third studio album, Love Goes (2020).

In 2022, Smith's single "Unholy" (with Kim Petras), would become their first number one single in the US and won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.

The song would precede their fourth album, Gloria (2023).

Smith's numerous accolades 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.