For just over a decade, Sam Smith has been extremely, unquestionably popular. Between their billions of streams, seven Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hits and five Grammy Awards, the English singer-songwriter has routinely sold out global arena tours, bringing their somber singing voice to massive crowds around the world.

Yet on Wednesday night (Oct. 15), Smith was not singing to a roaring crowd of 20,000 inside of a massive arena. Standing on the stage at Warsaw, the unassuming concert hall in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, Smith peered out at a crowd of mere hundreds. And they looked thrilled.

“I have been touring so much, since the age of 21. I went from playing in venues of this size to playing in arenas in one year — it was really f–king intense,” they told the hushed audience. “I st

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