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Adele birthing Sam's career
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Smith credits Elvin ( his current manager) with turning his career around. How did they meet? Ah, says Smith, it's a long story. "I was at an Adele concert, front row, Elvin was supporting her and I heckled him." Was he terrible? "No. He's got a gorgeous voice. He said something like, 'This song is for someone I love,' and I said, 'Ah, thanks!' It was a nice heckle. Not abuse."
When Smith sobered up he was embarrassed, so that night he contacted Elvin on Myspace to apologise. They had no further contact for three years. "Then I went to a gig in King's Cross and saw him there. I walked up to him and said, 'You're Elvin, I saw you support Adele, I heckled you.' He was like, 'You're Sam Smith, I remember speaking to you on Myspace.' And he was like, 'I'm a manager now.' It was too much of a coincidence."
So he asked Elvin to manage him? God no, Smith says. He said nothing. Later that evening he was outside the venue having a cigarette when Elvin walked past on his way home. "Something in my head told me, you've just got to go for this, and I ran down the street and said, 'What's your email? I want to send you a song.'"
Elvin introduced him to the songwriter Jimmy Napes, who co-wrote much of Smith's album. Napes's manager also handled the electronic music duo Disclosure, and they asked Smith to record Latch with them.
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