{"artistName":"Sam Fender","artistId":404940,"artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/86e/86ea331b514ed40b9acdadbc238d2550_xl.jpg","srcset":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/86e/86ea331b514ed40b9acdadbc238d2550_sm.jpg 50w,https://artist99.cdn107.com/86e/86ea331b514ed40b9acdadbc238d2550_md.jpg 80w,https://artist99.cdn107.com/86e/86ea331b514ed40b9acdadbc238d2550_lg.jpg 200w,https://artist99.cdn107.com/86e/86ea331b514ed40b9acdadbc238d2550_xl.jpg 340w","artistBio":"\u003cp\u003eSamuel Thomas Fender (born 25 April 1994) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. After commencing a career as an actor, he was signed as a singer and released several singles independently, being named one of the BBC's Sound of 2018.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFender signed to Polydor Records and released his debut EP, Dead Boys, in November 2018. He won the Critics' Choice Award at the 39th Brit Awards and released his debut album, Hypersonic Missiles, in September 2019, which entered the UK Albums Chart at number one. In 2020, Fender was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award. His second album Seventeen Going Under was released in October 2021 and also topped the UK Albums Chart.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamuel Thomas Fender was born on 25 April 1994[4] in North Shields, England, to Alan and Shirley Fender. He has a brother, Liam, who is ten years older than him. Fender had a tumultuous childhood – his mother left when he was eight years old, but he later moved back in with her after he was kicked out of his father’s house by his stepmother as a teenager. When he was 17, his mother had to end her 40-year career as a nurse due to fibromyalgia; he considered selling drugs to support her, but she talked him out of it.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe attended John Spence Community High School and the sixth form college of Whitley Bay High School, attending the latter alongside bandmate Joe Atkinson. He was bullied for being overweight and unathletic as a child, but found musically minded friends at high school During and after college he had a number of jobs, working in a call centre, a restaurant and a local pub where he was subsequently discovered by his manager.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the age of 20, Fender was diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening illness, shortly after which his father moved to France. His father, Alan, and brother, Liam, are also both singer-songwriters; Liam also plays drums and piano. Fender received his first guitar when he was 8 years old and began to write songs at 14.\u003c/p\u003e","musicPath":"/music/Sam+Fender","playStationPath":"/stations/398760698/play","stationId":398760698,"bioPath":"/music/Sam+Fender/_full_bio","similars":[{"musicPath":"/music/Biffy+Clyro","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/7dd/7ddc2d78ae31c82935186aaf63a0ec81_md.jpg","artistName":"Biffy Clyro","artistId":10829,"station_id":113270679},{"musicPath":"/music/Oasis","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/2dc/2dcb36b1738e4a93f0b8fc11958ddab6_md.jpg","artistName":"Oasis","artistId":583,"station_id":113262064},{"musicPath":"/music/The+Killers","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/fd2/fd2152f46b6c8232f2a6809d7e590053_md.jpg","artistName":"The Killers","artistId":746,"station_id":113265235},{"musicPath":"/music/BLOXX","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/bb5/bb5203cb467241a5e8430e0778bfcec8_md.jpg","artistName":"BLOXX","artistId":391019,"station_id":399642295},{"musicPath":"/music/The+Hoosiers","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/a9d/a9d1c527a81e073859c8a2770c99448b_md.jpg","artistName":"The Hoosiers","artistId":11458,"station_id":113386609},{"musicPath":"/music/Catfish+and+the+Bottlemen","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/811/8115da012698dfb0bad969e472e85c54_md.jpg","artistName":"Catfish and the Bottlemen","artistId":406260,"station_id":399138446},{"musicPath":"/music/Stereophonics","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/638/6386f9d31358335de9e77c013ca72278_md.jpg","artistName":"Stereophonics","artistId":1873,"station_id":113262382},{"musicPath":"/music/Reverend+and+The+Makers","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/c82/c82a8e62111fa26a9f889b96cff30ede_md.jpg","artistName":"Reverend and The Makers","artistId":100681,"station_id":280763179},{"musicPath":"/music/The+Libertines","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/7e2/7e2f7a0dc35a9d3737a28fd4bce61476_md.jpg","artistName":"The Libertines","artistId":2323,"station_id":113265974},{"musicPath":"/music/Swim+Deep","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/776/776dddd36eaf0a665cd4505e3d84582b_md.jpg","artistName":"Swim Deep","artistId":426514,"station_id":400334940},{"musicPath":"/music/Maximo+Park","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/586/586f52db8025211feed5f4f1bd6337b2_md.jpg","artistName":"Maxïmo Park","artistId":8597,"station_id":113269570},{"musicPath":"/music/Two+Door+Cinema+Club","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/a45/a4573f8ccd781c85e9a04b2d6fa1239b_md.jpg","artistName":"Two Door Cinema Club","artistId":54496,"station_id":258895381},{"musicPath":"/music/Saint+Raymond","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/c50/c50cfcf037da6a7e2e5613d0fba7564b_md.jpg","artistName":"Saint Raymond","artistId":409500,"station_id":399104519},{"musicPath":"/music/Wolf+Alice","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/0d0/0d02b071b9275f64b4edf2af5f6393e7_md.jpg","artistName":"Wolf Alice","artistId":272756,"station_id":370238565},{"musicPath":"/music/Kaiser+Chiefs","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/282/28229ddc5cd1879df6909e4e308b960e_md.jpg","artistName":"Kaiser Chiefs","artistId":10329,"station_id":113280941},{"musicPath":"/music/Gang+of+Youths","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/771/7714e97ffee3ac62bc88ee7307349d4c_md.jpg","artistName":"Gang of Youths","artistId":405386,"station_id":398796009},{"musicPath":"/music/The+MacCabees","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/d28/d2870f32c519b307e9ec5a67a1d17633_md.jpg","artistName":"The MacCabees","artistId":10888,"station_id":113763848},{"musicPath":"/music/APRE","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/3c3/3c379d15ad86a7ba79f27f624b2f11c2_md.jpg","artistName":"APRE","artistId":390929,"station_id":397958075}]}