Black and gold singer Sam Sparro flies high

Wednesday 13th August 2008, 12:00AM BST.

Singer Sam Sparro, whose single Black and Gold was a huge hit earlier this year, plays the Wulfrun Hall in Wolverhampton on September 25.

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The 25 year-old cites influences as diverse as Hot Chip and 1990s soul singer SWV.

He has attracted praise from the likes of Mark Ronson, Pete Tong, Zane Lowe and thousands of MySpace fans and bloggers.

His publicists say his style can be summed up as “Sam Sparro meets London glam via Parisian fashionista Jean-Charles De Castelbajac; it’s sharp but definitely not too serious”. Which is sure to entertain the crowd in Wolverhampton.

Sparro’s great-grandfather was a professor of music and his Maltese grandfather is a professional trumpet player who performed with, among others, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr.

After growing up in Sydney and London, Sparro move to Los Angeles and took a job at a coffee shop. It was during some low moments that the existential track ‘Black and Gold’ was written.

“I was feeling totally lost,” he remembers. “I didn’t know what I was doing. I was making cappuccino’s when I felt I should be onstage singing. That track came out of me looking up to the stars and seeing myself as a tiny speck in this infinite solar-system.”