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Roland Orzabal
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English musician and singer
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Portsmouth, England, UK
Roland Orzabal (born 22 August 1961) is a British musician, songwriter and record producer. He is known mainly as a co-founding member of Tears for Fears, of which he is the main songwriter and joint vocalist, but he has also achieved success as a producer of other artists. In 2014, Orzabal published his first novel. Orzabal met Curt Smith while both were in their early teens in Bath, Somerset.…
Known for
- Tears for Fears Live (A Tipping Point Film) — Self2024
- Tears for Fears: Radio 2 in the Park — Self2023
- Classic Albums: Tears for Fears - Songs From the Big Chair — Self2020
- Tears for Fears: The Seeds of Love2020
- Tears for Fears: Rock in Rio — vocals, guitar2017
- BBC In Concert: Tears for Fears2017
- Tears For Fears: Bonnaroo Festival — Himself2015
- Tears for Fears : KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas Festival — Himself2014
- Best Of Night Of The Proms vol. 62013
- Tears for Fears - Live From Santa Barbara — Vocals2010
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1961-08-22
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Roland Orzabal is a British singer-songwriter, musician, and producer, most famously known as one half of the internationally popular outfit Tears For Fears which he co-founded in 1981 with Curt Smith. Born in Plymouth, England, Orzabal's family moved to Bath when he was a child. As a teenager, he met Smith and the pair later formed the ska band Graduate in the late 1970s. The five-piece band released one album, 1980's Acting My Age and found minor success in continental Europe <a href="https://
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jaime
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Portsmouth
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- new wave
- Instrument
- baritenor
- Record label
- Mercury Records
- Image
- Roland Orzabal.jpg
- Work location
- Bath
- Voice type
- tenor
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- Ian Stanley
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- Roland Orzabal
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- Roland Orzabal
- member of
- Tears for Fears
- date of birth
- 1961-08-22
- birth name
- Roland Jaime Orzabal de la Quintana
- start of work period
- 1979-00-00
- name in native language
- Roland Orzabal
- copyright representative
- PRS for Music
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