9/15/2023 0 Comments Sam smith recent quotesHe is anxious about the upcoming ceremonies. The next morning, Smith and I sit with our feet dangling in the pool of the Ramada Plaza hotel, the sky above us unsure whether it wants to rain or shine, reflecting Smith’s ambivalent mood. He is all about the voice.Ĭoat, £1,495, Burberry London at. To really understand the effect of Smith, you need to see him - or rather, hear him - live. His music is neither ground-breaking nor cool it cuts across age barriers with raw emotion. But his face is expressive and there is something in his almond-shaped eyes - intense, lachrymose, likely to brim at any moment - that draws you in. He is six foot two inches of slightly squidgy stockiness, a bulky package of congenial warmth. When I bump into him backstage at the Forum, a neo-Greek amphitheatre in LA where he is playing tonight, I mistake him, in his white T-shirt and jeans, for a sound engineer. All this without the hype of The X Factor or a Brit School education. His debut single ‘Stay With Me’ sold more than 3.5 million copies and he currently has six Grammy (which took place on 8 February, after we went to press) and five Brit Awards nominations, for which he is the favourite to clean up on both sides of the Atlantic. His album about unrequited love In the Lonely Hour entered the US Billboard chart at number two in November (the highest ever entry for a debut from a British singer), was at number one in both the UK and US album charts and sold more than a million last year. In just two years, this 22-year-old from Cambridgeshire has gone from being a bathroom attendant in a bar in the City, to that lofty superlative ‘the biggest male artist in the world’.
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