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Sam Smith
Samuel Frederick Smith 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.
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entertainment · English singer and songwriter (born 1992) · singer · singer-songwriter · hip hop producer · composer · musician · songwriter · also Sam Smith, Samuel Frederick Smith, Smith
Born 19 May 1992 · Q15123969
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2026· 36 entries
“s career beginnings encouraged them to move to London to start their own career. They also credited her with helping them come out as non-binary. Smith described Robyn as a major influence on Love Goes and said that they listened to her”
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Billboard: Sam Smith, Stella Lefty, Los Ángeles Azules, Tini y más: Tu Guía de Nueva Música
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Published video “Sam Smith - Constant Companion (Official Video)”.
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Variety: Sam Smith Wears Their Heart on Their Sleeve With the Lovestruck ‘Hazel Eyes’: Album Review
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Yahoo: Sam Smith Credits Madonna for Shielding Them Through ‘Unholy’ Fury
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LOS40: Crítica de 'Hazel Eyes' de Sam Smith: quién iba a decir que el artista acabaría haciendo este álbum
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LOS40: Myke Towers, Tini, Los Ángeles Azules, Sam Smith y Farruko hacen frente al calor con sus nuevas canciones
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jenesaispop.com: RFTW: Sam Smith, Julia Holter, Brandon Flowers…
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Cadena 100: Sam Smith presenta 'Hazel Eyes': el disco que convierte el amor en su nueva inspiración
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Published video “Sam Smith - Hold On (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “Sam Smith - Love Is A Stillness (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “Sam Smith - Moondance (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “Sam Smith - Thief (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “Sam Smith - To Be Free (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “Sam Smith - Hazel Eyes (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “Sam Smith - Everlasting Love (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “Sam Smith - Constant Companion (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “Sam Smith - Sugar Rush (Official Lyric Video”.
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Billboard: Sam Smith’s ‘Hazel Eyes’: All 12 Songs Ranked
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Released album “Hazel Eyes”.
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Yahoo Sports: ‘Smith vowed revenge, and did it on white media’: Stephen A. Smith facing major backlash
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KHBS: Driver hit and killed in Fort Smith - KHBS
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LaHiguera.net: Brandon Flowers, Sam Smith y Weezer en las novedades musicales de la semana
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Shatter the Standards: Album Review: Hazel Eyes by Sam Smith
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VICE: VICE Album Reviews, August 21: Brandon Flowers, Sam Smith, GB and More
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AOL: Sam Smith Claps Back at Haters and Addresses Backlash Over Dramatic Transformation
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LOS40: Así apoyó Madonna a Sam Smith en uno de los momentos más duros de su carrera: "Ella es como una madre para mí"
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Published video “When He’s Gone”.
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Published video “Oh Mother”.
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Published video “Hold On”.
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Published video “Moondance”.
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Published video “Thief”.
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Published video “Constant Companion”.
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Published video “Hazel Eyes”.
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The Guardian: ‘It was lonely being a young queer artist’: Sam Smith on finding health, happiness – and their hazel-eyed fiance
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2025· 3 entries
Lead Stories rated the claim “Sam Smith and Pamela Anderson traded insults in May 2025, after Anderson's appearance at that year's Met Gala in New York City” Satire Origin.
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Released album “BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall”.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Sam Smith Self Partnered Dating Themselves” Joke Account.
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2024· 3 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Singer Sam Smith came out as "self-partnered."” Originated as Satire.
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The Guardian: ‘Experimental, queer and kind of magical’: Sade and Sam Smith feature on 46-track album for trans rights
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The Guardian: ‘It’s like being on a love boat’: the dance trio embraced by Sam Smith and Madonna
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2023· 11 entries
Released ep “A Lonely Christmas”.
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Snopes rated the claim “A YouTube video posted in September 2023 accurately reported the leak of a "connection" between singer Sam Smith and an island once owned by the late Jeffrey Epstein, who was convicted of sex-trafficking.” Unfounded.
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The Guardian: Sam Smith and Normani win copyright lawsuit over Dancing With a Stranger
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AP News rated the claim “A video shows musician Sam Smith crashing to the ground after attempting a stage dive at a show in Seattle.” False.
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The Guardian: Sam Smith & Madonna: Vulgar review – a tame attempt at manufacturing outrage
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The Guardian: Sam Smith cancels Glasgow and Birmingham shows after ‘vocal cord injury’
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The Guardian: Sam Smith review – some genuinely moving moments
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The Guardian: Sam Smith review – slow start gives way to a supercharged queer romp
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The Guardian: From a smooch-happy Aidan to an ‘unholy’ Sam Smith: what’s in store on And Just Like That …
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Released album “Gloria”.
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Released ep “Sam Smith Stripped”.
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2022· 2 entries
Released ep “Live from the Royal Albert Hall”.
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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
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2021· 2 entries
Released album “Love Goes: Live at Abbey Road Studios”.
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Released ep “Live”.
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2020· 11 entries
Released ep “The Holly & The Ivy”.
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Released ep “Loves Me, Loves Me Not”.
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Released ep “Blossom”.
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Released ep “Violets Are Blue”.
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Released ep “Roses Are Red”.
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Released album “Love Goes”.
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Released ep “REMIX”.
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Released ep “STRIPPED”.
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Released ep “HEAL”.
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Released ep “HEARTBREAK”.
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Released ep “DANCE”.
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2019· 2 entries
Awarded Out100 (2019).
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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
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2017· 1 entry
Released album “The Thrill of It All”.
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Song for Writing's on the Wall (2016).
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2015· 8 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best New Artist (2015).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Song of the Year for Stay with Me (2015).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album for In the Lonely Hour (2015).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Record of the Year for Stay with Me (2015).
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Awarded BET Award for Best New Artist (2015).
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Released album “The Lost Tapes - Remixed”.
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It came to light that singer Tom Petty, noting similarities between "Stay with Me" and his 1989 hit song "I Won't Back Down", had negotiated an out-of-court settlement with Smith in October 2014
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At the 57th Annual Grammy Awards when "Stay with Me" won an award for Record of the Year, they said, "I want to thank the man this record is about, whom I fell in love with last year
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2014· 5 entries
Released ep “Like I Can”.
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Awarded Out100 (2014).
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Released ep “Remix EP”.
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Released album “In the Lonely Hour”.
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Released ep “Sam Smith”.
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2013· 1 entry
Released ep “Nirvana E.P.”.
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2012· 1 entry
Rose to prominence when they featured on Disclosure's breakthrough single "Latch", which peaked at number eleven on the UK Singles Chart
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1992· 1 entry
Born 1992-05-19.
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