Sam Smh: ‘I Want to Be a Figure the Gay Communy’ – Rollg Stone

Contents:

• SAM SMH COM OUT AS GAY, WROTE NEW ALBUM FOR A GUY: “I WANT TO MAKE IT A NORMALY”
• SAM SMH’S NEW SGLE ‘MAN I AM’ IS THEIR GAYT SONG YET
• SAM SMH’S SEXUALY: IS SAM SMH GAY?
• SAM SMH: ‘I WANT TO BE A FIGURE THE GAY COMMUNY’
• IS SAM SMH GAY? KNOW HIS EARLY LIFE, RELATNSHIPS AND MORE
• IS SAM SMH GAY? WHO IS HIS EX-BOYIEND?
• SAM {LOR:#595959;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:600;MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:0.875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:1.25REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}} A{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:HER;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;} A:HOVER{LOR:#A00000;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}BRISH SGER SAM SMH WON FOUR GRAMMY AWARDS WH THEIR 2014 BUT ALBUM ‘IN THE LONELY HOUR.’{MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;LOR:#323232;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1;FONT-WEIGHT:800;} SPAN{LE-HEIGHT:1.6;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;}{FONT-STYLE:NORMAL;PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;FONT-FAY:RALAS,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;LOR:#323232;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.3;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;TEXT-TRANSFORM:PALIZE;}{PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;FONT-FAY:RALAS,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;LOR:#323232;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.3;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;TEXT-TRANSFORM:PALIZE;}BY TONY {DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;MARG-LEFT:0.625REM;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1;FONT-WEIGHT:800;}UPDATED: MAY 13, {DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;}{MARG-BOTTOM:0.9375REM;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 64REM){{MAX-WIDTH:LC(100VW - (1REM * 2));MARG-LEFT:1REM;MARG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(-1 * 1REM);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{MARG-LEFT:TO;MARG-RIGHT:TO;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - (LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 2 * 1REM)) / -2);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 61.25REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 90REM){{MAX-WIDTH:LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM);MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 1REM - 20.625REM) / 2);PADDG-LEFT:1REM;PADDG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 1REM - 20.625REM) / -2) - 1REM);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 90REM){{MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 2);MAX-WIDTH:LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM);PADDG-LEFT:1REM;PADDG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 + 1REM)) / -2) - LC(2 * 1REM));}[DATA-HAS-SPONSOR] {MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 4);MARG-RIGHT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 4);}}{JTIFY-SELF:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG-LEFT:-50VW;MARG-RIGHT:-50VW;WIDTH:100VW;LEFT:50%;RIGHT:50%;}}{HEIGHT:TO;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:TO LC(50% - 50VW);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:TO;}}{POSN:RELATIVE;HEIGHT:TO;}{POSN:RELATIVE;--POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:TO;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;HEIGHT:TO;} A{POSN:ABSOLUTE;}{POSN:RELATIVE;WIDTH:100%;HEIGHT:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;VERTIL-ALIGN:TOP;}{BACKGROUND:#C92228;BOTTOM:0;PADDG:.5REM;RIGHT:0;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{PADDG:0.39REM;}}{DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:1REM;WIDTH:1REM;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{WIDTH:1.063REM;HEIGHT:1.063REM;}}{LE-HEIGHT:1;MARG-TOP:0.3125REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 73.75REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0.9375REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0;}}{PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;LOR:#595959;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1;FONT-WEIGHT:800;}PHOTO: HELGA ESTEB/{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{PADDG-LEFT:3.5REM;PADDG-RIGHT:3.5REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{MAX-WIDTH:45.25REM;MARG-LEFT:TO;MARG-RIGHT:TO;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 73.75REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 100REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 90REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}} EM{FONT-STYLE:ALIC;FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;}{CLEAR:BOTH;NTENT:" ";DISPLAY:BLOCK;FONT-SIZE:0.7REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.5REM;HEIGHT:0REM;VISIBILY:HIDN;}{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM{FONT-STYLE:ALIC;FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;}(1992-){LOR:#323232;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:800;LETTER-SPACG:0.02EM;MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;MARG-TOP:0.625REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:1.875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:2REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{FONT-SIZE:2REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}} B, STRONG{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM, I{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;}WHO IS SAM SMH?SAM SMH WAS BORN LONDON MAY 1992 AND BEGAN SGG AT A YOUNG AGE. THEY FIRST H THE CHARTS AS THE FEATURED SGER ON THE 2012 DISCLOSURE SONG "LATCH," AND RELEASED THEIR FIRST SGLE, "LAY ME DOWN," SOON AFTER. IN 2014, SMH RELEASED IN THE LONELY HOUR, THEIR HEARTFELT BUT FULL-LENGTH ALBUM. IT NTAED THE SMASH H "STAY WH ME," A RAD STAPLE OVER THE URSE OF THE ENTIRE YEAR. FOR THEIR WORK ON IN THE LONELY HOUR, SMH WAS AWARD FOUR GRAMMYS, AMONG THEM SONG OF THE YEAR AND RERD OF THE YEAR. IN 2019, SMH ANNOUNCED THAT THEY PREFER TO E NON-BARY PRONOUNS.EARLY YEARSSMH WAS BORN ON MAY 19, 1992, LONDON. A NATURAL SGER, SMH BEGAN PERFORMG AS A CHILD, BUT THE FIRST REAL PRS THEY GOT ME 2009, WHEN THEIR MOTHER, A SUCCSFUL BANKER, WAS FIRED AFTER ALLEGEDLY PROMOTG HER 15-YEAR-OLD SON’S SGG REER WHILE ON PANY TIME. SMH HAD ONLY RERD TWO SONGS AT THAT POT AND WOULD BE A FEW YEARS BEFORE THEY LEFT THEIR MARK ON THE MIL WORLD.THROUGHOUT THEIR TEENAGE YEARS, SMH STUDIED MIC WHILE HTG THE BOOKS AT ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL BISHOP'S STORTFORD, HERTFORDSHIRE. THEY LOOKED FOR SPIRATN SUCH SOULFUL ARTISTS AS {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}ARETHA FRANKL AND STEVIE WONR WHILE KEEPG A CLOSE EYE ON THEIR FUTURE THE MIC BS. FIRST HSSMH’S FIRST MOMENT THE SPOTLIGHT WOULD E WHEN THE DANCE/ELECTRONI DUO DISCLOSURE RELEASED S 2012 SONG “LATCH,” TO WHICH SMH LENT THEIR VOLS. THE TRACK FEATURED THE SGER’S MELODIC FALSETTO OVER DISCLOSURE’S ELECTRONIC BEAT. "LATCH," FEATURG A STRIPPED-DOWN SOUND THAT MA THE LISTENER TAKE NOTICE OF SMH’S VOL WORK, RONATED A BIG WAY WH MIC FANS AND CRICS ALIKE AND LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR THEIR FUTURE SUCCS THE UK AND BEYOND. "LATCH" REACHED THE TOP OF THE UK SGL CHART WHEN SMH WAS JT 21, AND THEY SOON RELEASED THEIR OWN SGLE, “LAY ME DOWN.” SMH’S NEXT H WAS AGA VIA A FEATURED ROLE ON ANOTHER ARTIST’S SONG: NGHTY BOY’S BOLLYWOOD-SPIRED "LA LA LA." WH SMH'S LEAD VOL, THE SONG BEME AN STANT NO. 1 SGLE THE UK THE SPRG OF 2013. IN THE FALL, SMH RELEASED THEIR FIRST EP, NIRVANA, ON WHICH LISTENERS WERE TREATED TO AN ATIC VERSN OF "LATCH." A FEW MONTHS LATER, FEBARY 2014, SMH WAS AGA AT THE TOP OF THE UK SGL CHART WH "MONEY ON MY MD," AND MAY 2014, THEIR FULL-LENGTH BUT, IN THE LONELY HOUR, WAS RELEASED THE UK.COMG OUT AND AWARDS SUCCSTHE SAME MONTH THAT IN THE LONELY HOUR WAS RELEASED, SMH TOLD THE WORLD THEY WERE GAY. THEY ALSO REVEALED THAT SPE THE ALBUM BEG FULL OF LOVE SONGS, THEY'VE NEVER EXPERIENCED FIRSTHAND. “I'VE NEVER BEEN A RELATNSHIP BEFORE,” THEY SAID TO THE MAGAZE FAR. “IN THE LONELY HOUR IS ABOUT A GUY THAT I FELL LOVE WH LAST YEAR, AND HE DIDN'T LOVE ME BACK. ... I WAS A VERY DARK PLACE.”THAT DARK PLACE HAS TAKEN SMH TO SOME VERY EXCG, REWARDG ARENAS. AT THE 2015 GRAMMY AWARDS, SMH AND THEIR RERD TOOK FOUR AWARDS: BT NEW ARTIST, BT POP VOL ALBUM, RERD OF THE YEAR AND SONG OF THE YEAR (“STAY WH ME”). "BEFORE I MA THIS RERD I WAS DOG EVERYTHG TO TRY AND GET MY MIC HEARD," SMH SAID DURG ONE OF HIS FOUR ACCEPTANCE SPEECH. "IT WAS ONLY UNTIL I STARTED TO BE MYSELF THAT THE MIC STARTED TO FLOW AND PEOPLE STARTED TO LISTEN."MORE DISCLOSURE AND JAM BONDSMH NTUED TO KEEP BY 2015, RELEASG A RE-RERD VERSN OF "LAY ME DOWN" AS A DUET WH SOUL SGER/SONGWRER JOHN LEGEND. THE TRACK WENT TO NO. 1 ON THE UK POP CHARTS WHILE RAISG MONEY FOR THE CHARY IATIVE COMIC RELIEF. SMH THEN NTRIBUTED LEAD VOLS ON THE SLEEK "OMEN," ONE OF THE FIRST SGL OM DISCLOSURE'S SOPHOMORE ALBUM, CARAL.SMH HAS SCE JOED THE JAM BOND NON OF MOVIE VOLISTS WH HIS ORCHTRAL SGLE "WRG'S ON THE WALL" FOR SPECTRE. CO-WRTEN WH JIMMY NAP, THE SONG BEME A NO. 1 SGLE THE UK. "WALL" RECEIVED BOTH A GOLN GLOBE AND AN AMY AWARD 2016, WH SMH DITG HIS OSR W TO LGBT MUNI ACROSS THE GLOBE.SEND ALBUM: 'THE THRILL OF IT ALL'IN SEPTEMBER 2017, SMH RELEASED THE FIRST TRACK, "TOO GOOD AT GOODBY," OM THEIR SOPHOMORE ALBUM THE THRILL OF IT ALL. THREE MORE SGL FOLLOWED OM THE ALBUM, WHICH H NO. 1 THE UK AND U.S.SMH ENJOYED MORE MERCIAL SUCCS VIA LLABORATNS WH CALV HARRIS ON "PROMIS" AND WH NORMANI ON "DANCG WH A STRANGER," BEFORE RUMG SOLO WORK FOR THE SUMMER 2019 RELEASE OF "HOW DO YOU SLEEP?" AND DROPPG A VER OF DONNA SUMMER'S "I FEEL LOVE" LATE THE YEAR.SMH FOLLOWED FEBARY 2020 WH THE SGLE "TO DIE FOR," ALSO EXPECTED TO BE THE TLE OF THEIR UPG ALBUM. HOWEVER, THE ARTIST ANNOUNCED MARCH THAT THEY WERE CHANGG THE ALBUM NAME AND LAYG S RELEASE DUE TO NCERNS ABOUT THE RONAVIS OUTBREAK.DECISN TO USE NON-BARY PRONOUNSIN 2019, SMH ANNOUNCED THAT THEY WERE GOG TO BEG G THE NON-GENR, NON-BARY PRONOUNS THEY/THEM. "AFTER A LIFETIME OF BEG AT WAR WH MY GENR I’VE CID TO EMBRACE MYSELF FOR WHO I AM, SI AND OUT. I’M SO EXCED AND PRIVILEGED TO BE SURROUND BY PEOPLE THAT SUPPORT ME THIS CISN BUT I’VE BEEN VERY NERVO ABOUT ANNOUNCG THIS BEE I RE TOO MUCH ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE THK," THEY WROTE ON INSTAGRAM. {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
• SAM SMH OPENS UP ABOUT BEG GAY, REVEALS ALBUM IS ABOUT A GUY WHO DIDN'T LOVE HIM BACK
• IS SAM SMH GAY? WHO’S SAM SMH’S BOYIEND?

SAM SMH COM OUT AS GAY, WROTE NEW ALBUM FOR A GUY: “I WANT TO MAKE IT A NORMALY”

"In his nversatn wh Ja, Smh said he me out as gay when he was 10 and stopped wearg male clothg when he was 16, addg that he would wear fur and makp to school. In the magaze, the chart-topper, 22, me out as gay, but did so a way that ma the subject seem more nversatnal than claratory. Among the tracks, there is one that stands out not only as the gayt on the album but also as the gayt release yet om one of the most popular queer artists the world: Sam Smh.

“No, I’m not gay, bro / But I’ve been on that lay low” may be the mpit high pot for the cut, and ’s hilar to hear Smh sg the words.

SAM SMH’S NEW SGLE ‘MAN I AM’ IS THEIR GAYT SONG YET

READ NEXTDeSantis Campaign Shar Homoerotic Ad Toutg Anti-LGBTQ RerdKylie Mogue Announc Las Vegas RincyNew York Man Fatally Stabbed Possible Anti-Gay Hate CrimeLGBTQ+ Victory Fund Endors Joe Vogel for Congrs. Shortly after Sam’s but album dropped 2014, they wasted no time and me out as gay.

SAM SMH’S SEXUALY: IS SAM SMH GAY?

Is Sam Smh Gay?

SAM SMH: ‘I WANT TO BE A FIGURE THE GAY COMMUNY’

Recently, they were spotted kissg each RelatnshipSam Smh was mored to have date Daisy Lowe he is gay, he mostly had an affair wh male personali, and his relatnship uld not last wh other lady celebri. Another, he me out as gay to the public May Smh: Age, Parents, Siblgs, EthnicyThis sger was born on 19 May 1992 as Samuel Frerick Smh London, is the son of Kate Cassidy and Frerick mother was a succsful banker who got fired after promotg her 15-year-old son’s sgg reer so allegedly durg her pany time.

“No, I’m not gay, bro / But I’ve been on that lay low. He me out publicly as gay jt as soon as his album was released.

He thought this was very enlightened, a gay pop sger jt tegrated to stardom whout the wav and the hand-wrgg and the ntroversy. The handful of out gay pop stars before him — cludg his idol, Gee Michael — mostly endured lengthy “are they or aren’t they?

IS SAM SMH GAY? KNOW HIS EARLY LIFE, RELATNSHIPS AND MORE

” perds before they publicly acknowledged that they were gay. “I am not Sam Smh, the gay sger, ” he said at the time. “I am Sam Smh, the sger who happens to be gay.

” He gave an terview where he talked about Grdr and Tr, the hookup apps, and how sad was that all the possibily behd love and serendipy me down to a swipg culture, and sayg this offend some the gay muny too. He accepted the Osr for bt origal song for “Wrg’s on the Wall, ” om “Spectre, ” the Jam Bond movie, referrg to an article he’d read which Ian McKellen had “said that no openly gay man had ever won an Osr. ” Pfluger for The New York TimWell, he woke up the morng after the Osrs to an assassatn’s worth of ridicule, cludg om an openly gay man who had won an Osr.

Smh’s “gay nservatism, ” wrote, “His philosophy is, short, to be gay, but not too gay. ” Sure, he quickly realized, the Osr thg was wrong — he’d meant to say that there’d never been an openly gay lead actor wner — but the other stuff: why was taken so badly? He never said he was the spokman for gay vrl of the Osr cint surprised him.

IS SAM SMH GAY? WHO IS HIS EX-BOYIEND?

He was a proud gay man. Lerally someone at school said, “Are you gay?

SAM {LOR:#595959;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:600;MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:0.875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:1.25REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}} A{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:HER;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;} A:HOVER{LOR:#A00000;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}BRISH SGER SAM SMH WON FOUR GRAMMY AWARDS WH THEIR 2014 BUT ALBUM ‘IN THE LONELY HOUR.’{MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;LOR:#323232;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1;FONT-WEIGHT:800;} SPAN{LE-HEIGHT:1.6;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;}{FONT-STYLE:NORMAL;PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;FONT-FAY:RALAS,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;LOR:#323232;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.3;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;TEXT-TRANSFORM:PALIZE;}{PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;FONT-FAY:RALAS,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;LOR:#323232;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.3;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;TEXT-TRANSFORM:PALIZE;}BY TONY {DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;MARG-LEFT:0.625REM;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1;FONT-WEIGHT:800;}UPDATED: MAY 13, {DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;}{MARG-BOTTOM:0.9375REM;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 64REM){{MAX-WIDTH:LC(100VW - (1REM * 2));MARG-LEFT:1REM;MARG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(-1 * 1REM);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{MARG-LEFT:TO;MARG-RIGHT:TO;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - (LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 2 * 1REM)) / -2);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 61.25REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 90REM){{MAX-WIDTH:LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM);MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 1REM - 20.625REM) / 2);PADDG-LEFT:1REM;PADDG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 1REM - 20.625REM) / -2) - 1REM);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 90REM){{MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 2);MAX-WIDTH:LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM);PADDG-LEFT:1REM;PADDG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 + 1REM)) / -2) - LC(2 * 1REM));}[DATA-HAS-SPONSOR] {MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 4);MARG-RIGHT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 4);}}{JTIFY-SELF:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG-LEFT:-50VW;MARG-RIGHT:-50VW;WIDTH:100VW;LEFT:50%;RIGHT:50%;}}{HEIGHT:TO;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:TO LC(50% - 50VW);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:TO;}}{POSN:RELATIVE;HEIGHT:TO;}{POSN:RELATIVE;--POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:TO;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;HEIGHT:TO;} A{POSN:ABSOLUTE;}{POSN:RELATIVE;WIDTH:100%;HEIGHT:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;VERTIL-ALIGN:TOP;}{BACKGROUND:#C92228;BOTTOM:0;PADDG:.5REM;RIGHT:0;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{PADDG:0.39REM;}}{DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:1REM;WIDTH:1REM;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{WIDTH:1.063REM;HEIGHT:1.063REM;}}{LE-HEIGHT:1;MARG-TOP:0.3125REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 73.75REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0.9375REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0;}}{PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;LOR:#595959;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1;FONT-WEIGHT:800;}PHOTO: HELGA ESTEB/{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{PADDG-LEFT:3.5REM;PADDG-RIGHT:3.5REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{MAX-WIDTH:45.25REM;MARG-LEFT:TO;MARG-RIGHT:TO;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 73.75REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 100REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 90REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}} EM{FONT-STYLE:ALIC;FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;}{CLEAR:BOTH;NTENT:" ";DISPLAY:BLOCK;FONT-SIZE:0.7REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.5REM;HEIGHT:0REM;VISIBILY:HIDN;}{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM{FONT-STYLE:ALIC;FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;}(1992-){LOR:#323232;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:800;LETTER-SPACG:0.02EM;MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;MARG-TOP:0.625REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:1.875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:2REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{FONT-SIZE:2REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}} B, STRONG{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM, I{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;}WHO IS SAM SMH?SAM SMH WAS BORN LONDON MAY 1992 AND BEGAN SGG AT A YOUNG AGE. THEY FIRST H THE CHARTS AS THE FEATURED SGER ON THE 2012 DISCLOSURE SONG "LATCH," AND RELEASED THEIR FIRST SGLE, "LAY ME DOWN," SOON AFTER. IN 2014, SMH RELEASED IN THE LONELY HOUR, THEIR HEARTFELT BUT FULL-LENGTH ALBUM. IT NTAED THE SMASH H "STAY WH ME," A RAD STAPLE OVER THE URSE OF THE ENTIRE YEAR. FOR THEIR WORK ON IN THE LONELY HOUR, SMH WAS AWARD FOUR GRAMMYS, AMONG THEM SONG OF THE YEAR AND RERD OF THE YEAR. IN 2019, SMH ANNOUNCED THAT THEY PREFER TO E NON-BARY PRONOUNS.EARLY YEARSSMH WAS BORN ON MAY 19, 1992, LONDON. A NATURAL SGER, SMH BEGAN PERFORMG AS A CHILD, BUT THE FIRST REAL PRS THEY GOT ME 2009, WHEN THEIR MOTHER, A SUCCSFUL BANKER, WAS FIRED AFTER ALLEGEDLY PROMOTG HER 15-YEAR-OLD SON’S SGG REER WHILE ON PANY TIME. SMH HAD ONLY RERD TWO SONGS AT THAT POT AND WOULD BE A FEW YEARS BEFORE THEY LEFT THEIR MARK ON THE MIL WORLD.THROUGHOUT THEIR TEENAGE YEARS, SMH STUDIED MIC WHILE HTG THE BOOKS AT ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL BISHOP'S STORTFORD, HERTFORDSHIRE. THEY LOOKED FOR SPIRATN SUCH SOULFUL ARTISTS AS {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}ARETHA FRANKL AND STEVIE WONR WHILE KEEPG A CLOSE EYE ON THEIR FUTURE THE MIC BS. FIRST HSSMH’S FIRST MOMENT THE SPOTLIGHT WOULD E WHEN THE DANCE/ELECTRONI DUO DISCLOSURE RELEASED S 2012 SONG “LATCH,” TO WHICH SMH LENT THEIR VOLS. THE TRACK FEATURED THE SGER’S MELODIC FALSETTO OVER DISCLOSURE’S ELECTRONIC BEAT. "LATCH," FEATURG A STRIPPED-DOWN SOUND THAT MA THE LISTENER TAKE NOTICE OF SMH’S VOL WORK, RONATED A BIG WAY WH MIC FANS AND CRICS ALIKE AND LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR THEIR FUTURE SUCCS THE UK AND BEYOND. "LATCH" REACHED THE TOP OF THE UK SGL CHART WHEN SMH WAS JT 21, AND THEY SOON RELEASED THEIR OWN SGLE, “LAY ME DOWN.” SMH’S NEXT H WAS AGA VIA A FEATURED ROLE ON ANOTHER ARTIST’S SONG: NGHTY BOY’S BOLLYWOOD-SPIRED "LA LA LA." WH SMH'S LEAD VOL, THE SONG BEME AN STANT NO. 1 SGLE THE UK THE SPRG OF 2013. IN THE FALL, SMH RELEASED THEIR FIRST EP, NIRVANA, ON WHICH LISTENERS WERE TREATED TO AN ATIC VERSN OF "LATCH." A FEW MONTHS LATER, FEBARY 2014, SMH WAS AGA AT THE TOP OF THE UK SGL CHART WH "MONEY ON MY MD," AND MAY 2014, THEIR FULL-LENGTH BUT, IN THE LONELY HOUR, WAS RELEASED THE UK.COMG OUT AND AWARDS SUCCSTHE SAME MONTH THAT IN THE LONELY HOUR WAS RELEASED, SMH TOLD THE WORLD THEY WERE GAY. THEY ALSO REVEALED THAT SPE THE ALBUM BEG FULL OF LOVE SONGS, THEY'VE NEVER EXPERIENCED FIRSTHAND. “I'VE NEVER BEEN A RELATNSHIP BEFORE,” THEY SAID TO THE MAGAZE FAR. “IN THE LONELY HOUR IS ABOUT A GUY THAT I FELL LOVE WH LAST YEAR, AND HE DIDN'T LOVE ME BACK. ... I WAS A VERY DARK PLACE.”THAT DARK PLACE HAS TAKEN SMH TO SOME VERY EXCG, REWARDG ARENAS. AT THE 2015 GRAMMY AWARDS, SMH AND THEIR RERD TOOK FOUR AWARDS: BT NEW ARTIST, BT POP VOL ALBUM, RERD OF THE YEAR AND SONG OF THE YEAR (“STAY WH ME”). "BEFORE I MA THIS RERD I WAS DOG EVERYTHG TO TRY AND GET MY MIC HEARD," SMH SAID DURG ONE OF HIS FOUR ACCEPTANCE SPEECH. "IT WAS ONLY UNTIL I STARTED TO BE MYSELF THAT THE MIC STARTED TO FLOW AND PEOPLE STARTED TO LISTEN."MORE DISCLOSURE AND JAM BONDSMH NTUED TO KEEP BY 2015, RELEASG A RE-RERD VERSN OF "LAY ME DOWN" AS A DUET WH SOUL SGER/SONGWRER JOHN LEGEND. THE TRACK WENT TO NO. 1 ON THE UK POP CHARTS WHILE RAISG MONEY FOR THE CHARY IATIVE COMIC RELIEF. SMH THEN NTRIBUTED LEAD VOLS ON THE SLEEK "OMEN," ONE OF THE FIRST SGL OM DISCLOSURE'S SOPHOMORE ALBUM, CARAL.SMH HAS SCE JOED THE JAM BOND NON OF MOVIE VOLISTS WH HIS ORCHTRAL SGLE "WRG'S ON THE WALL" FOR SPECTRE. CO-WRTEN WH JIMMY NAP, THE SONG BEME A NO. 1 SGLE THE UK. "WALL" RECEIVED BOTH A GOLN GLOBE AND AN AMY AWARD 2016, WH SMH DITG HIS OSR W TO LGBT MUNI ACROSS THE GLOBE.SEND ALBUM: 'THE THRILL OF IT ALL'IN SEPTEMBER 2017, SMH RELEASED THE FIRST TRACK, "TOO GOOD AT GOODBY," OM THEIR SOPHOMORE ALBUM THE THRILL OF IT ALL. THREE MORE SGL FOLLOWED OM THE ALBUM, WHICH H NO. 1 THE UK AND U.S.SMH ENJOYED MORE MERCIAL SUCCS VIA LLABORATNS WH CALV HARRIS ON "PROMIS" AND WH NORMANI ON "DANCG WH A STRANGER," BEFORE RUMG SOLO WORK FOR THE SUMMER 2019 RELEASE OF "HOW DO YOU SLEEP?" AND DROPPG A VER OF DONNA SUMMER'S "I FEEL LOVE" LATE THE YEAR.SMH FOLLOWED FEBARY 2020 WH THE SGLE "TO DIE FOR," ALSO EXPECTED TO BE THE TLE OF THEIR UPG ALBUM. HOWEVER, THE ARTIST ANNOUNCED MARCH THAT THEY WERE CHANGG THE ALBUM NAME AND LAYG S RELEASE DUE TO NCERNS ABOUT THE RONAVIS OUTBREAK.DECISN TO USE NON-BARY PRONOUNSIN 2019, SMH ANNOUNCED THAT THEY WERE GOG TO BEG G THE NON-GENR, NON-BARY PRONOUNS THEY/THEM. "AFTER A LIFETIME OF BEG AT WAR WH MY GENR I’VE CID TO EMBRACE MYSELF FOR WHO I AM, SI AND OUT. I’M SO EXCED AND PRIVILEGED TO BE SURROUND BY PEOPLE THAT SUPPORT ME THIS CISN BUT I’VE BEEN VERY NERVO ABOUT ANNOUNCG THIS BEE I RE TOO MUCH ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE THK," THEY WROTE ON INSTAGRAM. {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

In the r, when the wdows were open, he would pretend he’d gotten a hair stuck to his lips and pick was all totally fe, even when wasn’t, even when the first boy he had a csh on said nasty, homophobic thgs to him that still make him cry. There were no other (openly) gay boys.

Believe or not, he did e Grdr, but he didn’t want random hookups so he arranged dner dat wh several very nfed, one day, he went to Atralia for a show, and afterward had a talk wh his publicist there, a gay man who liv wh his partner of 18 years.

SAM SMH OPENS UP ABOUT BEG GAY, REVEALS ALBUM IS ABOUT A GUY WHO DIDN'T LOVE HIM BACK

Smh to the Stonewall, a gay bar Sydney, for a drk one afternoon.

IS SAM SMH GAY? WHO’S SAM SMH’S BOYIEND?

He cid to help te him, takg him to a gay bookshop. “I lived a village the middle of nowhere as an openly gay man om the age of 10 years old, ” Mr.