About Curt Smith
Curt Smith is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is best known as the co-lead vocalist, bassist, and co-founding member of the pop rock band Tears for Fears along with childhood friend Roland Orzabal. Smith has co-written several of the band's songs, and sings lead vocals on the hits "Mad World", "Pale Shelter", "Change", "The Way You Are", "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", and "Advice for the Young at Heart". They first formed a band in their teens, and Smith taught himself to play bass guitar. After Graduate and Neon disbanded, Smith and Orzabal founded Tears for Fears in 1981. In 2000, routine legal paperwork obligations led to Orzabal and Smith's first conversation in nearly a decade. A 2003 single release of the song reached number one in the UK for three consecutive weeks and won Orzabal his second Ivor Novello Award.
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