Robert James Smith (born April 21, 1959 in Blackpool, England), a guitarist… Read Full Bio ↴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.
Robert is the third of four children born to Alex and Rita Smith. His siblings are Richard, Margaret, and Janet (who is married to Porl Thompson, the lead guitarist of The Cure).
Smith grew up in a Catholic atmosphere and went to St. Mary's high school in England as a teenager. However, he is not religious, but sometimes he feels that he wishes he was. One example of his desire for belief is in the aptly-titled Faith.
Smith has written or co-written the bulk of The Cure's music and lyrics in a career spanning 35 years. He has also been involved in other musical projects, including a stint with Siouxsie & the Banshees and his side-project with Steven Severin called The Glove. He has also contributed vocals to a number of independent projects and performances, among them the B-side of the Faith cassette which is a 30 minute track from a movie project - Carnage Visors.
Robert Smith is instantly recognizable for his image, which includes deliberately smeared red lipstick and messy black hair that some have compared to a large spider. He first used Siouxsie Sioux's lipstick while he was high on opium. Smith's image has contributed to the frequent classification of The Cure as a goth band, a moniker Smith rejects. Smith is also known for his distinctive wavering singing style.
Smith's lyrics are frequently poetic and as frequently inscrutable. Smith has stated that they are often the product of some "altered state," such as drugs or sleep.
Smith met Mary Poole in school when he was 14 years old. Smith explains that his class was asked to choose partners for an activity. He mustered the courage to ask Mary and, as he says, got lucky. They have been together since and were married in 1988. The song "Love Song" was written as a wedding present for Mary. They have agreed to remain childless.
In October 2004, he stood in as one of three guest presenters for John Peel on BBC Radio 1, a week before the DJ's untimely death.
"Just Like Heaven" is reportedly Smith's favorite pop song that The Cure has produced and easily one of the public's most popular in which he details a lost love: " found myself alone alone alone above the raging sea / that stole the only girl I loved / and drowned her deep inside of me. "
Public opinion has often been that, according to the music he writes, Robert Smith must be a deeply depressed soul. However, this quote disputes that sentiment:
" At the time we wrote Disintegration...it's just about what I was doing really, how I felt. But I'm not like that all the time. That's the difficulty of writing songs that are a bit depressing. People think you're like that all the time, but I don't think that. I just usually write when I'm depressed." -Robert Smith in a 1989 interview
Smith is the only member who has been in The Cure the whole time it has existed. When asked who their favorite lineup is, most fans will almost always mention Smith along with Simon Gallup, Porl Thompson, and Boris Williams.
Collaborations
In 2003, Robert Smith worked in collaboration with the band Blink-182 on the track "All of This" off their album Blink-182.
In 2004, Blank & Jones remixed " A Forest" featuring Robert Smith on vocals. There is an EP+ Bonus DVD with 4 audio remixes, The music video featuring Robert Smith and an interview by Blank & Jones with Robert Smith that takes place before the video shoot. That year, he also provided vocals for Junior Jack for the club hit "Da Hype". In November, he joined Placebo onstage at their Wembley arena gig to sing Placebo's "Without You I'm Nothing" and Smith's own "Boys Don't Cry." Robert Smith also co-wrote and supplied vocals for the Tweaker song "Truth Is".
In 2004, Junior Jack also did a remix of the song Da Hype on his album Trust It featuring Robert Smith.
In 2005, Robert Smith teamed up with Billy Corgan, the former lead singer of both the Smashing Pumpkins and Zwan, to do a cover of the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody" on Corgan's first solo release, TheFutureEmbrace.
Solo discography
For more than two decades, Robert Smith has been hinting at a solo album which has never materialized. It is often believed that most of his solo writing ends up in The Cure, with such closer tracks as "Homesick", "Untitled", "Treasure", "Bare", "Going Nowhere", but Smith denied this, crediting those songs to other members:
" I didn't write "Homesick" and I didn't write the music too. It's another misconception. […] Out of the 12 songs on the CD, I think I only wrote six musically... "Untitled"... (to Simon [Gallup]) You wrote that one ? ...It was Roger [O'Donnell]. So it [(Disintegration)] couldn't have been a solo album and if I'd done on my own it wouldn't have sounded anything like The Cure anyway apart from my own voice. The Top album could have been a solo album but it's not true the way we worked in studio […] " – Robert Smith in a 1989 interview
In 2001 Robert was going to end "The Cure" and work on his solo album. He was convinced otherwise by producer Ross Robinson, who himself is a massive fan of The Cure. Ross told Robert that he "had to make at least one more Cure album, the Cure album". This is why the 2004 album is simply titled "The Cure" (says Smith in an AOL interview). Making that album reminded Smith of why he enjoys doing what he does and another Cure album is due out in April of 2006, putting the solo album on hold once more.
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.
Robert is the third of four children born to Alex and Rita Smith. His siblings are Richard, Margaret, and Janet (who is married to Porl Thompson, the lead guitarist of The Cure).
Smith grew up in a Catholic atmosphere and went to St. Mary's high school in England as a teenager. However, he is not religious, but sometimes he feels that he wishes he was. One example of his desire for belief is in the aptly-titled Faith.
Smith has written or co-written the bulk of The Cure's music and lyrics in a career spanning 35 years. He has also been involved in other musical projects, including a stint with Siouxsie & the Banshees and his side-project with Steven Severin called The Glove. He has also contributed vocals to a number of independent projects and performances, among them the B-side of the Faith cassette which is a 30 minute track from a movie project - Carnage Visors.
Robert Smith is instantly recognizable for his image, which includes deliberately smeared red lipstick and messy black hair that some have compared to a large spider. He first used Siouxsie Sioux's lipstick while he was high on opium. Smith's image has contributed to the frequent classification of The Cure as a goth band, a moniker Smith rejects. Smith is also known for his distinctive wavering singing style.
Smith's lyrics are frequently poetic and as frequently inscrutable. Smith has stated that they are often the product of some "altered state," such as drugs or sleep.
Smith met Mary Poole in school when he was 14 years old. Smith explains that his class was asked to choose partners for an activity. He mustered the courage to ask Mary and, as he says, got lucky. They have been together since and were married in 1988. The song "Love Song" was written as a wedding present for Mary. They have agreed to remain childless.
In October 2004, he stood in as one of three guest presenters for John Peel on BBC Radio 1, a week before the DJ's untimely death.
"Just Like Heaven" is reportedly Smith's favorite pop song that The Cure has produced and easily one of the public's most popular in which he details a lost love: " found myself alone alone alone above the raging sea / that stole the only girl I loved / and drowned her deep inside of me. "
Public opinion has often been that, according to the music he writes, Robert Smith must be a deeply depressed soul. However, this quote disputes that sentiment:
" At the time we wrote Disintegration...it's just about what I was doing really, how I felt. But I'm not like that all the time. That's the difficulty of writing songs that are a bit depressing. People think you're like that all the time, but I don't think that. I just usually write when I'm depressed." -Robert Smith in a 1989 interview
Smith is the only member who has been in The Cure the whole time it has existed. When asked who their favorite lineup is, most fans will almost always mention Smith along with Simon Gallup, Porl Thompson, and Boris Williams.
Collaborations
In 2003, Robert Smith worked in collaboration with the band Blink-182 on the track "All of This" off their album Blink-182.
In 2004, Blank & Jones remixed " A Forest" featuring Robert Smith on vocals. There is an EP+ Bonus DVD with 4 audio remixes, The music video featuring Robert Smith and an interview by Blank & Jones with Robert Smith that takes place before the video shoot. That year, he also provided vocals for Junior Jack for the club hit "Da Hype". In November, he joined Placebo onstage at their Wembley arena gig to sing Placebo's "Without You I'm Nothing" and Smith's own "Boys Don't Cry." Robert Smith also co-wrote and supplied vocals for the Tweaker song "Truth Is".
In 2004, Junior Jack also did a remix of the song Da Hype on his album Trust It featuring Robert Smith.
In 2005, Robert Smith teamed up with Billy Corgan, the former lead singer of both the Smashing Pumpkins and Zwan, to do a cover of the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody" on Corgan's first solo release, TheFutureEmbrace.
Solo discography
For more than two decades, Robert Smith has been hinting at a solo album which has never materialized. It is often believed that most of his solo writing ends up in The Cure, with such closer tracks as "Homesick", "Untitled", "Treasure", "Bare", "Going Nowhere", but Smith denied this, crediting those songs to other members:
" I didn't write "Homesick" and I didn't write the music too. It's another misconception. […] Out of the 12 songs on the CD, I think I only wrote six musically... "Untitled"... (to Simon [Gallup]) You wrote that one ? ...It was Roger [O'Donnell]. So it [(Disintegration)] couldn't have been a solo album and if I'd done on my own it wouldn't have sounded anything like The Cure anyway apart from my own voice. The Top album could have been a solo album but it's not true the way we worked in studio […] " – Robert Smith in a 1989 interview
In 2001 Robert was going to end "The Cure" and work on his solo album. He was convinced otherwise by producer Ross Robinson, who himself is a massive fan of The Cure. Ross told Robert that he "had to make at least one more Cure album, the Cure album". This is why the 2004 album is simply titled "The Cure" (says Smith in an AOL interview). Making that album reminded Smith of why he enjoys doing what he does and another Cure album is due out in April of 2006, putting the solo album on hold once more.
Interview
Robert Smith Lyrics
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Dickie Goodman & Friends All your marsupial annotations That you carry around may rin…
Eminem and D-12 All my life I been underrated man This shit ain't nothing…
Eric Nam Hey girl, hello 오늘 기분 어때요 이렇게 만나게 돼서 난 좀 설레요 우선 먼저…
Flint Town's F.O.D. All my life I been underrated man This shit ain't nothing…
G-Rizm I'm your girl Ano Damo And we right her on the…
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Gleb Blow a hole in ya trunk - afraid of us You…
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IAM Si c'est une interview que vous voulez, je vais vous…
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KANGDANIEL Hello (hello) 널 알고 싶어졌어 So show me somethin', oh 하나부터 열까지 물어…
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Lino Sous les éclats de rire de la foudre et le…
M. Ward что твой внутренний голос говорит тебе каждый день? честно …
Mew You tell me in so many hushed words In your chrysalis…
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Saga Good afternoon! May I introduce myself? With a story to be…
Shaimus In our lives, how do we perceive? Do we know what's…
Sido Hallo, Ich bin's wieder Frank Furz vom Schulradio Schlaue We…
Simon Bookish I find myself in an imposing boardroom lined in oak for a…
Slim Thug What's good everybody? It's your girl Alana D. Chillin' with…
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Styles P & Jadakiss Anthony Donahue here with the legendary (Ahaa!) Not Steven A…
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TakeOff & Offset They say that nigga that don't talk much is that…
The Holloways Every little bit hurts Every little bit hurts Every night …
The Iron Maidens Keith Wilfort: How did you feel when you finally learned tha…
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U-Roy Ayo shoutout Mayor Penguin Music Who has 24 beats available …
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Weezer Hey Hey, yeah, um, I would like to know Yes Yes Come on g…
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Young Jeezy Im inside a boudoir Getting head I′m so raw You know why…
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Z Ro & Slim Thug What's good everybody? It's your girl Alana D. Chillin' with…
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강다니엘 Hello (hello) 널 알고 싶어졌어 So show me somethin', oh 하나부터 열까지 물어…
에릭남 Hey girl, hello 오늘 기분 어때요 이렇게 만나게 돼서 난 좀 설레요 우선 먼저…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Robert Smith:
09. Very Good Advice I give myself very good advice But I very seldom follow…
A Forest Come closer and see See into the trees Find the…
C Moon Check, mm, check, mm, check it out mm-mm Uh huh, mh…
Da Hype I´m flying again, so good to pretend, I´m in love…
Forest Come closer and see See into the trees Find the…
Not In Love I saw your picture hangin' on the back of my…
Pictures Of You If I should stay Well, I would only be in your…
Pirate Ships Far away Far away child Turn your eyes Far away child I wil…
Pirate Ships {12/89} Far away Far away child Turn your eyes Far away child I wil…
Pirate Ships [ Far away Far away child Turn your eyes Far away child I wil…
Small Hours Going to get on up and fly away Go on out…
Small Hours (feat. Robert Smith) Going to get on up and fly away Go on out…
There's a Girl in the Corner And you′re not coming back And you're not coming back from…
Very Good Advice I give myself very good advice But I very seldom follow…
Witchcraft Those fingers in my hair That sly Come hither stare That str…
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June Asiimwe
Robert Smith is a rare gem in the music industry. So authentically himself and he's remained down to earth all these years. Definitely one of my favorite people in music.
Alicia Orsidobson
He’s one of the most Genuine Rocker
Alicia Orsidobson
Truly
Alicia Orsidobson
One time I saw an interview with Maynard James Keenan of Tool
The journalist asked Maynard about Al Jorgensen of Ministry the question was what would Al be doing for a profession if he wasn’t a musician?
Maynard answered that he thinks Al would make a great Kindergarten teacher. I died laughing. 😂
I love these interviews with Rockers and Punks and Goth rockers. That’s why I love them. No Filter and Witty sometimes dull but genius humor in their answers to the questions that they are asked
Alicia Orsidobson
🖤💋🖤
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@theWARMJET yep he’s o gothic snowflaje alright.
Logan White
It’s weird for me to say, but this is part of why I like Robert so much. He converses with people just like I do. Just with such an open mind, and has a colorful opinion or perspective about everything, with a twinge of dry humor in the mix.
daniel stigol
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Derek Trotter
@daniel stigol yep 👍 😂
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