In 2015 Sam won the Grammys for Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album. They publicly came out as gay shortly before releasing their debut album In the Lonely Hour on, which they wrote because they were in love with a man who “didn’t love back”. It was through collaboration with Disclosure’s “ Latch” and Naughty Boy’s “ La La La”, Smith found themselves more and more in-demand throughout 20. The soulful, beautifully rich tone of their voice and the subject of the lyrics ‘speak’ to many people and have led to their success. These negative experiences, combined with an inherently emotional nature, inform their songwriting and delivery. They suffered bullying at school and were shocked to find that even in London-close to gay communities-they were subjected to homophobic attacks. Sam knew they were gay, they said, for as long as they could remember. At the early age of seventeen, they left school to pursue their dream, living in a small one-bed flat and working in a London pub, but ended up isolated and beset by loneliness. Smith showed an early talent for singing, and their parents responded by arranging singing lessons from the age of eight with professional jazz singer and songwriter, Joanna Eden. Their mother is a successful City of London trader and their father a stay-at-home dad who brought up the children.

They’re the oldest of three siblings and are said to be close to their younger sisters. Sam Smith was born on 19th May 1992 and grew up in a rural village on the border of Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire, the nearest town being Bishops Stortford.

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