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.”