Yessie Smith

Sam Smith was born in Bishop's Stortford in 1992 and grew up in the small village of Linton in the English county of Cambridgeshire.

After years of silence, Patti Smith returned to music with a series of concerts in late 1995.

Nearly 30 years and nine albums in, Patti Smith shows no signs of giving up, or giving in, despite the fact she expected to be quietly doing her work instead of making rock & roll albums and playing in front of audiences.

Multi-platinum singer-songwriter Lauren Spencer Smith releases her debut full-length album, 'Mirror'. 'Mirror', featuring 15 profoundly moving, personal records, tells a story filled with autobiographical ups and downs. The title 'Mirror' is Personal and Deliberate. 'I've been working on this album for years.

Melvin Smith, an accomplished saxophonist, arranger, and composer, continues to showcase his adaptability and deep love for jazz in his latest release, Perseverance. Known for his ability to effortlessly merge the sacred and secular in music, Smith presents a project that showcases his spiritual, intellectual, and musical depth. The album’s central theme revolves around the idea of honoring the past while simultaneously building toward a musically enriched future.

The Bell features dynamic chamber music compositions written for masterful improvisers. The best thing I caught all weekend, said critic Peter Margasak of the 2014 New York Winter Jazzfest, was a superb trio led by drummer Ches Smith with pianist Craig Taborn and violist Mat Maneri, which expertly infused seductively narcotic writing with a mixture of brooding melody and rich texture.

Lauren Spencer Smith releases the deluxe edition of her debut full-length album, Mirror, which adds bonus track "Sad Forever" to the original tracklist of deeply moving, personal songs brimming with depth, range, and narra­tive.

Michael W. Smith became one of the most enduringly popular artists in the contemporary Christian music market while also finding success as a mainstream artist. The songwriter was born in Kenova, West Virginia, the son of an oil refinery worker and a caterer. He became a devout Christian at age ten and spent his teenage years around a support group of fellow believers who frequently gathered to create music. That support group split up after high school, and Smith turned to alcohol, drugs, and wild times. Meanwhile, he scraped through a couple semesters of college and began honing his songwriting skills, which led to a songwriting company's interest in his music in 1978. He moved to Nashville, where he played with a series of local bands, including Rose. He was still heavily into drugs and continued using until October 1979, when he suffered an emotional mental breakdown that culminated in his recommitment to Christ. The next day, he auditioned for a new CCM group, Higher Ground, as a keyboardist. Smith landed the gig and began to clean up his act while touring with the band.