Sam Smith: The Biography

By Joe Allan

Sam Smith is a global superstar on the rise! The soulful singer's debut album, In the Lonely Hour, sold 4 million copies and won four 2015 Grammy awards. In 2016, he won an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.

While the media largely painted Smith as an "overnight success story," Sam Smith: The Biography shows the hard work that Smith put in for over a decade. Smith underwent vocal training and went through six different managers before finally releasing an album.

Sam Smith has over 3.8 million subscribers on YouTube and his videos have gotten more than 1.6 billion views. He has over 5.3 million fans on Facebook and more than 4 million followers on Twitter.

After falling under the spell of Whitney Houston and Chaka Khan as a child, Smith focused on trying to match the powerful vocal ranges of divas and female singers.

Smith came out as gay in 2014. His touching honesty about loneliness, love, and his own sexuality comes through both in his music and in interviews.

Author Joe Allan has worked in the music industry for over twenty years. He has written several books and is a regular contributor for the pop music website Into the

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lesser Gods
• Release date: Oct 11, 2016
• ISBN: 9781944713157

Joe Allan

Joe Allan has worked in the music industry for over twenty years and is a close follower of the film, television and music worlds. He is a lifelong fan of science fiction, especially Star Wars, and is a Young Adult fiction devotee.