“I have been touring so much, since the age of 21. I went from playing in venues of this size to playing in arenas in one year,” Sam Smith related to the audience at Brooklyn’s 1, 100-capacity Warsaw on October 15. “I stayed in those arenas for nearly 10 years, and it was a really amazing experience, and I love singing in those rooms . but my favorite shows, and the ones that changed me as an artist, were the gigs that were shared in rooms like this, that are built for music.” The British crooner’s popularity skyrocketed in 2014, initially.