: A chance meeting with manager Elvin Smith changed everything. Within 18 months, Smith’s vocals featured on Disclosure's hit "Latch" (2012), followed by Naughty Boy's "La La La" (2013), which topped the UK charts [7]. Global Superstardom
: By age 18, they had already seen six different managers come and go and recorded an unreleased album [7]. Sam Smith
As their career progressed, Smith became known for their radical honesty regarding sexuality and gender identity [8, 9]. : A chance meeting with manager Elvin Smith
: In 2023, their hit "Unholy" with Kim Petras made them the first openly non-binary artist to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and win a Grammy in a major category [9]. 9]. : In 2023