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 bothSmith's debut studio album, In the Lonely Hour, was released in May 2014 on Capitol Records UK 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 Smith's second number one single in the UK The third single, "Stay with Me", was an international success, reaching number one in the UK and number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, while their 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 PerformanceFor Smith's and Jimmy Napes's song "Writing's on the Wall", the theme for the James Bond film Spectre (2015), Smith won the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Original Song
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