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Robert F. Smith (investor)
American businessman and philanthropist (born 1962)
Robert Frederick Smith (born December 1, 1962) is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of private equity firm Vista Equity Partners.[1][2] He graduated from Cornell University with a chemical engineering degree and from Columbia Business School with an MBA, before working as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs.
Early life
Smith was born in Denver, Colorado, the fourth generation in his family to be born in Colorado.[3] His parents were Dr. William Robert Smith, an elementary school principal, and Dr. Sylvia Myrna Smith, the principal of George Washington High School, who both had PhDs in education.[4][3][5][6] His father had attended the University of Denver on a band scholarship, playing percussion and piano.[7] Asked about his mother in 2020, he said: "She usually calls me to tell me what I can do a little better."[4] His paternal grandmot
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Robert Smith (musician)
English rock musician (born 1959)
This article is about the English musician with the band the Cure. For other musicians, see Robert Smith ยง Music.
Musical artist
Robert James Smith (born 21 April 1959) is an English musician who is the co-founder, lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and only continuous member of the Cure, a post punk rock band formed in 1976. His guitar-playing style, singing voice, and fashion sense, often sporting a pale complexion, smeared red lipstick, black eye-liner, unkempt wiry black hair, and all-black clothes, were highly influential on the goth subculture that rose to prominence in the 1980s.
Smith's other work includes playing the lead guitar as a member of Siouxsie and the Banshees from 1982 to 1984 and being the co-founder of the short-lived band the Glove in 1983. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Cure in 2019,[1] and Rolling Stone magazine ranked him as the 157th greatest singer of all time in 2023.[2]
Early life
Robert James Smith[ It’s Thursday 7 July 1983, and I am sitting on a Welsh sofa. The Cure are on Top Of The Pops, sandwiched between a sub-par ELO single and Jimmy The Hoover’s one hit. Stood inside a cage filled with dry ice, they perform The Walk, a piece of naggingly catchy, darkly danceable synthpop. Robert Smith, Ray-Bans welded to his face, has a guitar around his neck but doesn’t pretend to play it. Finally, something about the combination of his persona and The Cure’s deliciously mordant music clicks for me. Change a Big Issue vendor’s life this winter by purchasing a Winter Support Kit. You’ll receive four copies of the magazine and create a brighter future for our vendors I was hooked. Being a Cure fan became part of my identity. I started wearing eyeliner to house parties,•
Reading Robert Smith's diary made me fall in love with The Cure
spiking my hair up and dyeing it black, and persuaded my mum to knit me a baggy mohair jumper. I wasn’t alone. For thousands of my generation, being a Cure fan said something about who we were. Anyone wh
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