Tom A Smith

Tom A Smith knows exactly what his beloved Bruce Springsteen meant when he sang, “We learned more from a three-minute record than we ever learned in school.” The 21- year-old songwriter – Sunderland born, bred and proud – has, by his own admission, never been the academic type. Instead, his greatest lessons have all arrived with a guitar in his hand. “It’s how I’ve made sense of the world and everything that’s happened in my life,” Tom says. “It’s just always been such a constant part of who I am.”