Sam Smith See latest videos, charts and news The 29-year-old grew up in North London and first took an interest in music when he discovered the guitar around the age of 15 or 16, and hasn’t looked back since. “Well I suck at everything else; this seemed like the obvious choice,...
Second place in the Global Recording Artist top ten went to Ed Sheeran, whose studio album x has now sold more than ten million copies world-wide since its release in June 2014 – an achievement recognised at last year’s BRIT Awards 2015 when the Yorkshire-born singer songwri...
The article offers information on the fashion styles of various British celebrities including fashion model Cara Delevingne, singer-songwriter Sam Smith, and actress Amy Hoggart. Topics discussed include Delevingne's designation as a face of fashion prod...
If British singer-songwriter Celeste isn’t already on your radar, chances are you’ll be her biggest fan by the end of the year. The 26-year-old artist recently won BBC’s Sound of 2020, and took home the Brit Rising Star Award—a kind of barometer of future success (previous ...
The report said that British music industry accounted for 17.1 percent of the world music market, which is highest ever share, equivalent to around one in every six artist albums sold worldwide. It said the extraordinary success was led by English singer Adele, whose latest album 25 became the...
What Does Brit Up-and-Comer James Bay Think About Being Called the Next Smith? He eventually secured management with Closer Artists, which also handles Ezra and singerJohn Newman, and spent the next few years doing so many open-mic nights that “I lost count of them,” he says (although...
That said, sometimes it actually does take a few good years for true artists to find the nexus of their staying power. That’s exactly what happened with British singer/songwriterNick Heyward, who made his initial splash during the prime MTV era by helming hit songs likeLove Plus OneandFavo...
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Then come the murder ballads, which so influenced Nick Cave that he made a whole album of them. Hunt out his version of Young Hunting, entitled Henry Lee, a duet with PJ Harvey where ‘a little bird looked down’ on the victim’s corpse. The singer of Young Hunting comes to a sticky...
“We launched Folk On The Dock back in 2016. It attracted a plethora of new UK singer-songwriters. Even back then, when we listened to their track submissions. We could hear a clear blurring of folk, country, pop and Americana. Each brought a critique from one of us questioning: “Is ...