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Sam Smith

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Sam Smith

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Also known as Samuel Frederick Smith

British singer-songwriter

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Sam Smith, born Samuel Frederick Smith on May 19, 1992, in London, is a British singer, singer-songwriter, hip hop producer, and composer. A non-binary artist who speaks English, Smith performs in the soul, contemporary R&B, pop music, and rhythm and blues genres. Their musical influences include Lady Gaga, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, and Luther Vandross. Smith is signed to Capitol Records and has been recognized with Grammy Awards for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist, and Best Pop Vocal Album.

In addition to music, Smith has been nominated for MTV Video Music Awards and MTV Europe Music Awards. Their work has been referenced by 2,358 other encyclopedia articles. Smith has an unmarried partner named Brandon Flynn.

Synthesized by Vinony from 42 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Firecrawl, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
198

Top works

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Film & TV

Acting · London, England, UK

Sam Smith (born 19 May 1992) is an English singer and songwriter. Smith rose to fame in October 2012 when 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"—earned them their first number one single in May 2013.

Known for

  • An Evening with Elton John and Brandi Carlile — Self2025
  • Sam Smith: Lollapalooza Argentina — Singer2024
  • Wham!: Last Christmas Unwrapped — Self2024
  • Sam Smith at the Proms — Self - Vocals2024
  • 60 Songs: BBC Two at 60 — Self (archive footage)2024
  • The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy — Dr. Azel (voice)2024
  • Sam Smith: Live at the Royal Albert Hall — Self2022
  • The Sound of 007 — Self (archive footage)2022
  • Ed Sheeran: Full Circle2022
  • Unholy — Self2022

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Non-binary
Country
United Kingdom
Active from
1992

Discography

Member of

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
3,120,518
Total plays
114,439,269

Tags

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Samuel Frederick Smith (born 19 May 1992) is an English singer and songwriter. They 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. Smith was subsequently featured on Naughty Boy's "La La La", which became a number one single in May 2013. In December 2013, they were nominated for the 2014 Brit Critics' Choice Award and the BBC's Sound of 2014 poll, winning both. <a href="https://www.last.f

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test

    · 1997 · cited 48,627x

  2. Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances

    · 1956 · cited 42,287x

  3. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,423x

  4. GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers

    · 2015 · cited 25,274x

  5. Array programming with NumPy

    · 2020 · cited 23,393x

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Official website

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Encyclopedic overview

Samuel Frederick Smith (born 19 May 1992) is an English singer and songwriter. In 2012, they rose to prominence when they featured on Disclosure's breakthrough single "Latch", which peaked at number eleven on the UK Singles Chart. The following year, they featured on Naughty Boy's single "La La La", which became a number one single in the UK.

Smith's debut studio album, In the Lonely Hour (2014), was released through Capitol Records UK and debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart. 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 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.

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