Sam Smith, who took four Grammy Awards in one night for In the Lonely Hour, played an eight-night To Be Free residency at the London Coliseum in September 2026.
Sam Smith played eight nights of To Be Free at the London Coliseum in Covent Garden between Tuesday 8 and Saturday 19 September 2026. It was the London leg of a global residency, in the largest theatre in the West End.
Smith was born in London in 1992 and raised in a Cambridgeshire village. They went through six managers before returning to the city at 18 to find a seventh.
The break came on Disclosure’s “Latch” in 2012. In the Lonely Hour followed in 2014 and took four Grammy Awards in a single night, including record of the year and song of the year for “Stay with Me”.
Smith came out as nonbinary in 2019. “Unholy”, with Kim Petras, reached number one in the United States in October 2022. It was the first time an openly nonbinary and an openly transgender solo artist had done so together.
Hazel Eyes, the fifth album, came out on Friday 21 August 2026. To Be Free was conceived as a residency, and its London chapter placed Smith in an opera house for all eight nights.
Each evening opened with a different singer, eight in all, each named in the billing.