SAM Smith paid themself a massive £3.8million last year, despite the coronavirus leaving them unable to tour. The Grammy-award winning artist, who released third album Love Goes in October, banked £10,000 a day from their live music firm.
New accounts show a £3.8m payment to them from SSW Live LLP - almost three times the £1.4m paid out by the firm in 2019. That year Sam, 28, had a small run of 17 shows in South America and South Africa.
Their Cape Town gig was cut short after the singer suffered a bout of anxiety onstage. Sam said afterwards: "The last week, or so I've been doing these incredible shows, and from my pics, I look super happy and calm and collected, and I am happy, and sometimes I am calm.
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