{"id":478589,"date":"2026-06-15T15:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/478589\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T15:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:43:09","slug":"myles-smith-plays-free-luton-show-ahead-of-debut-album-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/478589\/","title":{"rendered":"Myles Smith plays free Luton show ahead of debut album launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspiring the next generationpublished at 14:35 BST<\/p>\n<p>14:35 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man standing outside a fish and chip shop called Myles Fish &amp; Chips\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/179c1bb8-f99e-423c-8a9b-181acbb0169d.jpg.webp\"  width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Kian Boyle\/BBC<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul Jeboda, part of Smith\u2019s management team, first met him more than a decade ago when the singer was at university.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says Smith\u2019s return to Luton shows young people in the town that \u201canything is possible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He comes from these same places that everyone here comes from today, and the fact that he&#8217;s gone on to do what he&#8217;s done &#8211; hopefully we can inspire at least one person to see that it&#8217;s possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jeboda credits the star&#8217;s success to discipline and self-belief. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says: &#8220;He&#8217;s always had his head down. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s always been very disciplined, he&#8217;s always like believed in himself, he&#8217;s always been true to himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Someone who carries that in literally everything that they do, as long as they never give up, success could only be inevitable.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inspiring the next generationpublished at 14:35 BST 14:35 BST Image source, Kian Boyle\/BBC Paul Jeboda, part of Smith\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-478589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}