Festival organizers UNTOLD have prepared for the fans who will arrive at the9th edition of the festival a number of premiere artists. Sam Smith, will arrive for the first time in Romania, on Cluj-Arena.
Brit he is the only artist who managed to make the connection between music soul and popand this detail gave him visibility and earned him a Oscara Golden Globes and five Grammy Awardsin the most important categories: Best Pop Vocal Album, Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year.
Sam Smith is on a worldwide promotional tour for the album “glory”, and with this concept “Gloria – The Blackout Tour“, will arrive on the main stage of the festival UNTOLDoccupying festival 3rd place in the the top of the biggest festivals in the world.
The British artist’s team consists of over 50 peoplethe production of the show will be impressive, and the organizers UNTOLD they have a number of requirements from his management Sam Smith.
21 tons of musical equipment, sound and stage equipmenttransported in three truckswill be integrated into The UNTOLD mainstage.
The size of the stage should be kept to a minimum 21m wide and 13.5m depthhis technical team Sam Smith will bring stage lifts and an inflatable set that they will mount in the main stage structure. The decor has 13.7m wide and 3m high and requires a stage depth of 13.4m
to be mounted correctly.
The Briton will be accompanied by own chefwho will be provided with a space that should have a minimum of six electrical sockets of 240v AC 50hz (suitable to power an oven and two induction hobs).
The unique combination of soul and popa voice trained for 10 years, the sensitivity of the lyrics, the sincerity of the interpretation, the taboo subjects such as sexuality and the struggle with depression, all these transformed Sam Smith in a super star.
With the release of the album “glory“, Sam Smith returned to all charts worldwide. With the single “Unholy“, colaboration with Kim Petras debuted at No. 1 in the United States, and was rewarded with a Grammy to the category Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
and it came to fish 1.5 billion of streams on Spotify. “Unholy” presented to the world an artist with an assumed identity.
February 9, 2014 it was a memorable day in the life of the Briton Sam Smithwas the day the music industry rewarded him with four Grammy statuettes. Debut album “In The Lonely Hour” was also released in United States where he was hugely successful and was rewarded with eight Platinum Discs.
The year 2016
it was the year that Sam Smith obtained an Oscar award and a Golden Globes for the song “Writing’s On The Wall”, included in the soundtrack of the series “James Bond – Spectre“.
Festival UNTOLD will take place during August 8-11 in the Cluj-Napoca.