Robert Smith

Robert Smith is one of the very few artists who built an entire emotional climate and then lived in it for fifty years. Since founding the Cure in 1976, he has been its only constant — the smeared lipstick, the wild black hair, the shimmering guitar lines — and what reads as costume on imitators reads as conviction on him. What I treasure most is the contradiction he mastered: songs that mourn and dance at the same time. Generations of outsiders found shelter in that sound. Trends have lapped him a dozen times, yet nothing he made feels dated. To me, that is the clearest definition of an artist rather than an act.

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Name (English)

Robert Smith

Name (Japanese)

ロバート・スミス

Reading

ろばーと・すみす

Born

April 21, 1959 (age 67)

Origin

Blackpool, United Kingdom

Occupation

singer-songwriter / guitarist / singer / manufacturer / keyboardist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Boar

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Smith%20(musician)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B9%20(%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q491252

Tags

• singer-songwriter
• guitarist
• singer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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