Sam Smith on the Rise

Sam Smith (full name Samuel Frederick) has recently been on a quickly trending rise in music, and has definitely made his mark in the industry of music so far.

Smith was born on May 19th 1992 in London England. He was apart of the Youth Music Theater in UK as a child and stared in their 2007 production of "Oh Carol!". For many years Smith spent his time studying, singing, and songwriting jazz music. He attended St Mary's Catholic School in Bishop's Stortford, was a member of the Bishop's Stortford Junior Operatics (now Bishops Stortford Musical Theater Society), and was also apart of the successful Cantate Youth Choir.

Smith later rose to fame in countless countries as a British soul singer-songwriter in October of 2012 when he was featured on Disclosure's breakthrough single "Latch". The song later peaked at number 11 on the UK Singles Chart. His subsequent feature on Naughty Boy's "La La La"earned him his first number 1 single in May of 2013.

In December of 2013 Smith was nominated for the 2014 BRIT Critics' Choice Award and the BBC's Sound of 2014 poll, and won both. Shortly after in May of 2014 he released his debut album In the Lonely Hour on Capitol records. His lead single "Lay Me Down" was released prior to "La La La", and was followed by his second single "Money on My Mind"."The album's third single "Stay with Me" was an international success, peaking atop both the UK Singles chart and the U.S. Billboard Pop Songs chart along with the Adult Contemporary, Adult Pop Songs and Radio Songs charts (Wikipedia)". In addition it also reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Smith was awarded best song and best video (La La La), and was also nominated for single of the year and best newcomer at the MOBO Awards. At the BRIT Awards Smith was awarded Critics' choice and was nominated (again) for the single of the year. He continued a strong streak at the VMA'a being nominated for artist to watch, best male video, and song of the summer (Stay with Me). At the latest awards ceremony Smith has attended, Young Hollywood Awards, Smith won Breakout artist and in addition was nominated for hottest music artist and (again) song of the summer.

Since Smiths rise in fame he has appeared on the cover of The Fader, Saturday Night Live, preformed at the 2014 VMA's, and has had countless other incredible opportunities in his career.