# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-smith-q491252
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:27:25.793Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-smith-q491252"
name: "Robert Smith"
slug: "robert-smith-q491252"
description: "Robert James Smith is an English musician who is the co-founder, lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and only continuous member of the Cure, a post-punk band formed in 1976. His guitar-playing style, and distinctive singing voice shaped the sounding identity of the Cure. His fashion sense were highly influential on the goth subculture that rose to prominence in the 1980s."
tagline: "English singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Smith_(musician)_crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1959-04-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           67.44
  momentum:             10
  historical:           33.934144
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0809733/"
    handle:    "nm0809733"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0SHJWEBfbcjkE8bGiSTykk"
    handle:    "0SHJWEBfbcjkE8bGiSTykk"
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    title: "Robert Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "روبرت سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert Smith (musicien)"
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    title: "Robert Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert Smith"
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    title: "Robert Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smith"
    title: "Robert Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smith_(musicista)"
    title: "Robert Smith (musicista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Smith_(musician)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Smith_(musicista)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump