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ALBUMHomesick - SingleNoah Kahan & Sam Fender
Albums by Sam Fender
ALBUMSeventeen Going Under (Deluxe)Sam Fender
ALBUMHypersonic MissilesSam Fender
Sam Fender's Popular Music Videos
Homesick (Remix) [Lyric Video]
Noah Kahan & Sam Fender
Dead Boys
Sam Fender
Seventeen Going Under
Sam Fender
Hypersonic Missiles
Sam Fender
Will We Talk?
Sam Fender
Spit Of You
Sam Fender
Get You Down
Sam Fender
Saturday
Sam Fender
Dead Boys (BRITs 2019 Critics' Choice Session)
Sam Fender
The Borders
Sam Fender
Artist Playlists
Sam Fender Essentials
A fervent scream over violently bruised indie rock.
Sam Fender’s Sad But True Playlist
Don’t let his Springsteen-style anthems fool you—the UK artist was formed by Metallica, too.
Sam Fender: Chill
Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
Artist Biography
Sam Fender crafts the kind of tenacious anthemic rock that punches straight at the gut. Born and raised in 1994 in the northeastern English town of North Shields, the singer/songwriter first picked up a guitar at age 10 and began playing gigs locally as a teen to help support him and his mother. But it wasn’t until he started writing music for himself—rather than what he thought others wanted to hear—that everything started to click. That’s when he wrote his 2017 debut single, “Play God,” a propulsive, politically charged slice of indie rock. It came from a place of deep desperation, “a time where I was like, ‘I need to prove myself. I need to do something that cuts through,’” he told Apple Music. The track earned him a slot on BBC’s Sound of 2018 shortlist, which led to a deal with Polydor Records and the release of his acclaimed 2019 debut, Hypersonic Missiles, an album that channels modern-day anxiety through heartfelt heartland rock. His 2021 follow-up, Seventeen Going Under, hit even harder, pumped full of soaring arrangements and bold statements that continue to prove Fender’s power as a mighty millennial voice for the working class.
Hometown
North Shields, England
Genre
Singer/Songwriter