Sam Smith Shares New Single “To Be Free” Out Today

LISTEN HERE AND WATCH THE OFFICIAL VIDEO HERE

SAM ANNOUNCES “To Be Free: New York CITY”— AN INTIMATE 12-SHOW OCTOBER RESIDENCY AT WARSAW

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Today, multi-Platinum, GRAMMY®, BRIT, Golden Globe and Oscar winning artist and songwriter Sam Smith unveils their new single, “To Be Free.” Carried by Sam’s signature soaring vocals  and buoyed by the accompaniment of the The TwoCity Chorus, the soulful acoustic song explores how vulnerability can unlock bravery and freedom. Sam co-wrote and produced the track with their longtime collaborator, Simon Aldred. Download/stream “To Be Free,” released today by Capitol Records, HERE. View the official video HERE.

“I’ve never had a recording experience like I did making this song. It’s one vocal and guitar take from start to finish – one live performance of me and my friend Simon Aldred in a pure state of music and expression,” Sam Smith explains. “I wrote it five years ago while writing my last album Gloria and then parked it because I knew it was not a song for that album. It was created during a time in my life where I became free within myself.”

Sam adds, “With this song, the visual of rivers kept coming into my mind and into my heart. I grew up next to a little river in Cambridgeshire in the countryside of England. Then I moved to London and lived by the Thames, and now I live by the Hudson River. Rivers have been in my life a lot. So I found it interesting to think of my music and my expression as an artist as a river.  Over the last five years, Simon and I started to create music that fit into this world of ‘To Be Free’ and during this time, I’ve continued to turn to this song in happy moments, sad moments, lonely moments and angry moments. It’s become my sister, my family member and ultimately calms me.  Now, I’m ready to let it go and hopefully it can do the same for someone else.”

Taking the song’s fearless intimacy one step further, Sam announces “To Be Free: New York City” – a 12-night residency at Warsaw, a historic Brooklyn venue that will give fans a rare chance to see them perform in an up close and intimate setting.   

The artist ticket pre-sale for To Be Free: New York City will begin on Tuesday, July 29, at 10 am local time.  The general onsale will begin on Friday, August 1, at 10 am local time. See below for dates, tickets are available for purchase HERE.  Visit https://samsmith.world/ToBeFreeNYC for additional details.

Filmed at Warsaw, where the residency will take place, the official video for “To Be Free” bristles with an electric energy and a contagious sense of joy as The TwoCity Chorus, heard on the single, pour into the venue to join Sam for a powerful performance of “To Be Free.” The TwoCityChorus is a collective of recording artists from Philadelphia and New York City. With the help of Sam’s frequent collaborator Ant Clemons, the chorus was curated by Brandon Pain.  (LA)HORDE – the French contemporary dance collective and artistic directors of the Ballet National de Marseille – directed, after previously choreographing the video for Sam’s global smash single, “Unholy,” Ft. Kim Petras.  Sam has once again collaborated with Andreas Kronthaler with custom looks from Vivienne Westwood that reflect the music’s return to classicism and timelessness, with its narrative of love, acceptance and, ultimately, inner peace and joy.  Watch “To Be Free” HERE.

Sam Smith is one of the most celebrated musical artists to emerge in recent history. A five-time GRAMMY® winner, Sam holds two Guinness World Records – for the most consecutive weeks in the U.K. Top 10 Album Chart (for their 2014 debut, In The Lonely Hour) and for having the first James Bond theme to reach No.1 on the U.K. charts (for the Oscar and Golden Globe-winning “Writing’s on the Wall”). Sam has amassed over 40 million equivalent album sales, 300 million single sales and over 56 billion career streams across their catalog of critically acclaimed albums In the Lonely Hour, The Thrill of It All, Love Goes and GLORIA, which Rolling Stone praised as “their deepest album yet” and includes the global smash single, “Unholy,” Ft. Kim Petras.  The track spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and four weeks at No. 1 on the UK Official Singles Chart, marking Sam’s eighth to top the tally. In June 2025, Sam released the stunning live album BBC Proms At The Royal Albert Hall.

Sam Smith – “To Be Free: New York City” 2025 Warsaw Residency Dates

Wednesday, October 8
Friday, October 10
Saturday, October 11

Wednesday, October 15
Friday, October 17
Saturday, October 18

Tuesday, October 21
Wednesday, October 22
Friday, October 24

Wednesday, October 29
Thursday, October 30
Friday, October 31

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