Bath,
Somerset,
England
Genre(s)
Pop,
Rock
Occupation(s)
Musician,
Songwriter,
Record Producer
Instrument(s)
Vocals,
Bass,
Keyboards
Years active
1978
- 1993,
1997
- 2007
Label(s)
Zerodisc
Curt Smith (born June 24, 1961, Bath,
Somerset,
England)
is an English singer, bassist, synthesizer player and songwriter.
He is best known for forming the band Tears
for Fears, along with guitarist Roland
Orzabal. He was originally in the ska influenced band Graduate
and had also been in a band called Neon, featuring future members of Naked
Eyes.
Smith sings lead vocals on all the singles
released from The Hurting album. On Songs from the Big Chair
and The Seeds Of Love,
he played a lesser role as a vocalist and was predominantly a bass
player, though he did sing the lead for one of their biggest hits, "Everybody Wants to
Rule the World".
His last single as a lead vocalist with the group was
"Advice For The Young At Heart". After leaving Tears For Fears in 1991,
he recorded his first solo album Soul On Board,
but the album met with little success in the UK, and was never released
at all in the U.S.
After moving to New York, he formed a new band,
Mayfield. The band released a self-titled album, which met with little
success. Smith later released the album Aeroplane.
In the U.S., this was a six song EP, but in Canada and
elsewhere, it was essentially the earlier Mayfield album combined with
additional songs from the U.S. EP.
In April 2007, French record label XIII Bis Records released Halfway
Pleased, a solo album Smith had been working on since 2002.
It had been put on the shelf for a few years while he and Orzabal
worked on the recording, release and promotion of the Tears For Fears
reunion album, Everybody Loves A Happy Ending. Halfway
Pleased was mixed by Tim Palmer, and features the eleven
tracks Smith had been working on with songwriting partner Charlton
Pettus prior to the Tears For Fears reunion.
These included the original version of "Who You Are"
(which wound up being recorded by Tears For Fears on Everybody
Loves A Happy Ending); a live version of "Snow Hill" from the
2005 Tears For Fears UK tour; the single version of "Seven Of Sundays"
(re-recorded as a duet with French singer So); and a cover
of "On Ira Tous au Paradis" (which is also available on A
Tribute to Polnareff). A music video was made for "Seven of
Sundays".
Smith also runs Zerodisc,
a label and management company. In his early years in Bath, he attended
the Beechen Cliff School.
See also
External links
|
Tears
for Fears |
| Roland
Orzabal ·
Curt Smith
Ian
Stanley ·
Manny Elias
Discography
Studio albums: The
Hurting ·
Songs from the Big Chair ·
The Seeds of Love ·
Elemental ·
Raoul and the Kings of
Spain ·
Everybody Loves a
Happy Ending
Compilations: Tears Roll
Down (Greatest Hits 82-92) ·
Saturnine Martial
& Lunatic
Live albums: Secret
World
Singles: Suffer the Children ·
Pale Shelter
(You Don't Give Me Love) ·
Mad
World ·
Change ·
Pale Shelter ·
The Way You
Are ·
Mothers Talk ·
Shout ·
Everybody Wants to
Rule the World ·
Head Over
Heels ·
I Believe (A
Soulful Re-Recording) ·
Everybody Wants to
Run the World ·
Sowing the Seeds of Love ·
Woman in Chains ·
Advice for the Young
at Heart ·
Famous
Last Words ·
Laid So Low (Tears
Roll Down) ·
Break It Down Again ·
Cold ·
Goodnight
Song ·
Elemental ·
Raoul
and the Kings of Spain ·
Gods Mistake ·
Secrets ·
Falling
Down ·
Closest Thing to Heaven ·
Everybody
Loves a Happy Ending / Call Me Mellow ·
Secret
World
|
