Sam Fender fans have rushed to his defence after backlash over his big win at the 2025 Mercury Prize Awards. With one of the strongest shortlists in recent memory, the Geordie singer landed a hometown ...

Sam Fender has won the 2025 Mercury Prize for his third album, People Watching, a steely-eyed dissection of working-class life in the north of England. The singer looked stunned when his name was ...

Sam Fender has won the 2025 Mercury Prize for his album People Watching. The annual award is given to best album released by a musical act from the UK or Ireland, as determined by a panel of music ...

A hemorrhaged vocal cord kept Sam Fender from taking the stage at Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival for his headlining performance. But the injury proved to be beneficial for Benson Boone, who was ...

A working class hero is something to be — just ask Sam Fender. The singer-songwriter’s anthemic tales of woe out of his hometown in northeast England have made Fender, 30, a bona fide superstar across ...