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Biography
At the 2015 Brit Awards, he was awarded British artist of the year and global success for his international sales. In 2016, he received the Golden Globe and the Oscar for best original song for «Writing's on the Wall» from the film Spectre. He has sold over 20 million albums worldwide.In 2019, Smith publicly identified as non-binary.Since his childhood and adolescence, Smith participated in musical theater rehearsals and was part of jazz bands, which taught him discipline and vocal technique, as well as expanded his vocal range. He also expressed his love for pop music. At eight years old, he began taking singing lessons and composing with Joanna Edén, a local jazz singer, after his parents heard him singing a Whitney Houston song.
His singing teacher often invited him to sing in the choruses of a club where she performed. At eleven years old, he acquired an amplifier and used a small greenhouse in his house as an improvised stage, where he sang for his friends and his mother's associates. Since twelve years old, he had six artistic representatives who failed to realize his fame aspirations. In 2008, he was an opening act at an Adele concert at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire and met Elvin Smith, who later became one of his managers. The following year, his mother lost her job because the company considered she was spending too much time on Smith's career. At eighteen, motivated by Lady Gaga's story, he moved to London to pursue his music career and worked in several bars for two years.
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- Nacimiento
- 19 may 1992
- País
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Género
- alternative r&b
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Grammy
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Brit Awards