- Speaker
- Author
- Narrator
- Musician
Los Angeles, CA
Booking 2026–27
Samuel Picou — speaker, author, audiobook narrator, and musician
Helping the next generation discover who they are — and why their life matters.
Start here — I’m a…
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Featured on & performed at
- NBC’s The VoiceFeatured on · Season 5
- The Hollywood ReporterFeatured in
- NAAFKeynote speaker
- SXSWPerformed at
Why Samuel speaks
Purposechanges everything.
Purpose changes everything.A student who believes their life matters walks differently, chooses differently, and treats the people around them differently.
Samuel has spent his life with a microphone in hand — on national television, on conference stages, in school gyms, and in the recording booth. Every room is different. The message is the same: you were made on purpose, and the world needs what you carry.
The flagship school assembly
Now booking — 2026–27 school year
FindingYour Purpose
Finding Your Purpose — school assemblyAn interactive school assembly helping students confront bullying, identity, confidence, and purpose.
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Anti-Bullying
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Purpose
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Identity
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Leadership
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Confidence
Assembly — students engaged
Samuel on the gym floor, students on bleachers leaning in. Shot from behind the front row.
What students walk away with
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See themselves clearly
Students separate who they are from the labels, rumors, and comparisons that follow them.
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Understand the weight of words
They recognize how everyday comments shape a campus — and how to stop the cycle.
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Move from bystander to upstander
Practical, age-appropriate ways to step in, speak up, and include.
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Make better choices
A simple framework for decisions that protect their future instead of their image.
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Leave with a next step
Every student leaves with one clear action they can take the same day.
- Assembly length
- 45–60 minutes (customizable)
- Grade levels
- PreK–12, tailored by age
- Audience
- Up to 1,000 students per session
- Setup
- 20–30 min · own mic, connects to house PA
- Add-ons
- Student leadership session · Staff/parent evening
- Booking
- Direct or via Academic Entertainment
School administrator?
Request the program overview, technical datasheet, and pricing for your campus.
Speaking reel
Watch the room lean in.
Speaking reelTwo minutes from assemblies, conferences, and youth events — the best way to know if Samuel is right for your audience.
Speaking reel — 90–150 sec
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Schools · Conferences · Youth events · Community events
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Built formore thanone stage.
Built for more than one stage16
Samuel’s age when he sang on Season 5 of NBC’s The Voice.
The Voice — Season 5 clip
Embedded from Samuel's unlisted YouTube link. Add the video ID in site.ts.
At sixteen, Samuel sang “Where Is the Love?” for millions on national television — rapping and singing both parts. No chair turned.
He heard “no” in front of the whole country and kept going. That moment is now one of the most important stories he tells students: a setback doesn’t decide your future — your response does. The full story →
“This guy’s good.”
— Blake Shelton, NBC’s The VoiceVerify wording
What people are saying
In their own words.
TestimonialsA principal's words about how students responded to Finding Your Purpose will go here.
“A teacher or counselor's reflection on what changed on campus after the assembly.”
“A parent on what their kid said in the car after the assembly.”
Schools, districts & organizations
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- PTA logo
- Conference logo
- Publisher logo
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- Organization logo
- Media logo
Free For parents & guardians
Help your kid knowwho they are — beforethe world tells them.
The Finding Your Purpose Family KitA free kit for parents of kids ages 8–17: the words to use when bullying, screens, and self-doubt show up at home — plus a 7-day purpose challenge your child will actually do.
$109 valueYours free.
The Dream Worksheet
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The 7-Day Purpose Challenge
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A Message From Samuel
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Audiobook narration by Samuel Picou
Give your booka voice youraudience will remember.
Audiobook narrationNarration, production, mixing, and mastering for authors and publishers — especially inspirational, leadership, and personal-growth titles that need a voice listeners can trust.
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Narration
Professional, direction-ready narration with consistent tone, clean pronunciation, and a delivery shaped to your message and reader.
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Production
Editing, proofing against the manuscript, pickups, and pacing — so the finished book sounds like one continuous, intentional performance.
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Mixing & Mastering
Broadcast-quality audio mastered to ACX and major retailer specifications, ready for Audible, Spotify, and beyond.
Now playing · 01/04
Inspirational Non-Fiction
Warm · steady · conversational
About Samuel
One communicator.Many mediums.
About Samuel PicouSamuel Picou is a speaker, musician, educator, author, audiobook narrator, and entrepreneur — best known to many from Season 5 of The Voice.
He founded The Christian Music Academy to help others find confidence in their gifts, and today brings the same conviction to schools, conferences, community events, and the recording booth.
- Stage
- Speaker
- Music
- Singer & musician
- Classroom
- Music educator
- Page
- Author
- Microphone
- Audiobook narrator
- Business
- Founder & entrepreneur
Speaking topics
Messages forevery room.
Speaking topicsEvery message is tailored to the age, setting, and goals of your audience — from a kindergarten assembly to a leadership keynote.
- 01Finding Your PurposeFlagship school assembly
- 02Anti-BullyingCulture & courage
- 03Identity & ConfidenceWho you are before what you do
- 04LeadershipInfluence starts small
- 05Your Story Is Your SuperpowerOvercoming setbacks
- 06Youth EventsCamps, conferences, teen programs
- 07Community & Awareness EventsNonprofits, cities, alopecia awareness
- 08Leadership & Personal DevelopmentFor adults and organizations
Beyond The Cover
Samuel Picou
The book · Available now
Beyond The Cover
Beyond The CoverWhat alopecia, bullying, and a national stage taught me about who you really are.
Samuel Picou lost all of his hair to alopecia as a child — and learned early what it feels like to be judged by the cover. Beyond The Cover is the story of what happened next: the bullying, the stage of NBC's The Voice at sixteen, and the slow discovery that the thing that made him different was the thing that gave him purpose.
On the road
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Media and press kitOn stage
Samuel speaking — wide, low angle, stage light
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headshotHi-res
Student interaction
Samuel with students in the gym / assembly floor
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Headshot — alternate
Three-quarter portrait, natural light
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Performing
Samuel performing — keys or vocal, warm stage light
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Studio
Recording booth, microphone detail, headphones
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