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Robert Smith

Robert Smith was born in Blackpool in 1959 and started the band that became the Cure with school friends in 1976; he has been its singer, guitarist, main songwriter and only constant member ever since. He also played guitar in Siouxsie and the Banshees from 1982 to 1984. Songs of a Lost World (2024), the Cure’s first album of new songs in 16 years, won the band its first Grammys in 2026.

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Robert Smith on stage with the Cure at Roskilde Festival in 2012
Photo: Bill Ebbesen, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped, via Wikimedia Commons