![]() “I’ve found it all pretty difficult, and I guess in my songs it all just comes spilling out.” “I haven’t been very lucky in my romantic life, it’s true,” he will tell me. Unfiltered emotion is what ultimately elevates Smith’s voice: It is shot through with the kind of melancholy that paints its author, an openly gay (and currently single) man, as particularly hopeless in matters of the heart. “When you see him sing live” - as Ware did a week previously, at a secret show - “it’s breathtaking: his control, his technique and emotion.” And she says that he is improving all the time. “He is just a phenomenal singer,” says British pop artist Jessie Ware, who has been a close friend of Smith’s for four years now. It’s part tenor, part falsetto, soft as a Persian cat, a voice that Beyoncé has called “buttery” and Mary J. Most pop stars can carry a tune, of course, but Smith cradles it with a dramatic flair that brings to mind Gladys Knight, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse. As such, it will capture him in his element, for while Smith’s songs are highly polished, radio-friendly affairs, the man’s main selling point is his voice, which is a thing of wonder. ![]() ![]() Today’s live performance will be sent out during the next few months into the online world, announcing the return of the preeminent British male soul star of his generation. Sam Smith: Photos from the Billboard Shoot ![]()
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