Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1905
- Works
- 31
Top works
- Fairweather
- Writing fiction
- Sports
- Babe Ruth's America
- Baseball: a historical narrative of the game
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1969-08-06
- Active to
- 2003-10-21
acoustic rockamericanfolk rockindieindie folkindie pop
Discography
- Shytown / No Confidence Man1994
- Roman Candle1994
- Needle in the Hay1995
- Elliott Smith1995
- Speed Trials1996
- Division Day / No Name #61997
- Either/Or1997
- Ballad of Big Nothing1998
- XO1998
- Waltz #2 (XO)1998
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 61,409
- Total plays
- 282,889
Tags
Gothicpoppost-punkrockalternative
Robert James Smith (born April 21, 1959 in Blackpool, England), a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, has been the lead singer and driving force behind English post-punk band The Cure since its founding in 1976. Highly influenced by The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and even David Bowie he started playing guitar at the age of 12. Smith has played the 6 and 12 string guitars; 4 and 6 string bass guitars; double bass; piano; drums; violin; trumpet and trombone, in various combinations. <a href="https://w
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Family name
- Smith
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Place of death
- Brooklyn
- Occupation
- television actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
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- writing language
- English language
- date of death
- 2001-06-26
- date of birth
- 1912-12-15
- start of work period
- 1927-00-00
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