Samuel Jack made peace with a hit he never really loved

"I think it was Will Manning or someone on Capital Radio: 'In at number 32, you don't know his face and you don't know his name, but you know the song'," Samuel Jack rolls his eyes. "I remember thinking at times, Christ, you know, I'm in for one here." Talking through his life – and how he came to be nonchalantly announced on national radio – from his home studio, where he's been working on a track he'll pitch for an unnamed TV show, singer/songwriter Jack is as open in person as his vulnerable songwriting suggests.Born in London to a film director father, his was a nomadic childhood. "My upbringing was all over the place. We won't go into that, but there are lots of different reasons. I was thrown around the place a lot when I was a kid."That sense of movement would follow Jack into adulthood. One of the most pivotal moments involved him moving to South Africa as a preteen for a few years. It was here he became entranced by music, specifically Paul Simon's Graceland.It was "Homeless" that struck him one day while playing football outside. With the record on inside, the sounds of Simon, and more particularly Ladysmith Black Mambazo, who features on the track, arrested the young Jac...