“We were touring the States tied to a load of drum machines and sequencers and synthesizers, playing to hundreds of thousands of people and yet feeling strangely removed from the music.”

English singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer

Curt Smith is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is best known as a co-founder of the pop rock band Tears for Fears, where he serves as co-lead vocalist and bassist alongside childhood friend Roland Orzabal. Smith has co-written several of the band’s songs and has taken lead vocals on some of its best-known tracks, including “Mad World,” “Pale Shelter,” “Change,” “The Way You Are,” “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” and “Advice for the Young at Heart.”