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Curt Smith (born 24 June 1961) is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer, who is best known as the co-lead vocalist, bassist and co-founding member of the pop rock band Tears for Fears along with childhood friend Roland Orzabal.
Tears for Fears are an English pop rock band formed in Bath in 1981 by Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal.Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate, Tears for Fears were associated with the synth-pop bands of the 1980s, and attained international chart success as part of the Second British Invasion.
Orzabal continued recording under the Tears for Fears name, releasing the albums Elemental (1993) and Raoul and the Kings of Spain (1995). As Tears for Fears, Orzabal and Smith released Everybody Loves a Happy Ending in 2004. [13] After almost a decade in development, the band's seventh album, The Tipping Point, was released in February 2022. [14]
It was Orzabal’s current wife, the above-mentioned writer/photographer Emily Rath, whom Orzabal married in April 2021, that encouraged Tears for Fears to make music again.
In 2016 and 2019 she toured with Tears for Fears, handling backing vocals and singing joint lead on "Woman in Chains". She also performed backing vocals on several tracks for Tears For Fears' next album, The Tipping Point, released in 2022, and joined Tears for Fears on the first leg of their US tour to support the album.
Smith left the group for a couple albums and Tears for Fears became an Orzabal solo project in the ‘90s, ... Jack Gillis took his wife Meg White’s last name when they married in 1996, but by ...
Back in the '80s, Tears for Fears was on top of the music world. But despite the huge commercial success of three straight albums, singer and bassist Curt Smith was rather miserable. “At the ...
Ian Christopher Stanley (born 28 February 1957) is a British musician, songwriter and record producer. He was a member of Tears for Fears for most of the 1980s, and played a key role in the making of their multi-platinum-selling second studio album Songs from the Big Chair.