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Roland Jaime Orzabal de la Quintana (born 22 August 1961) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and author. He is the guitarist, co-lead vocalist, main songwriter, co-founder, and the only constant member of Tears for Fears.
May 20, 2022 · It makes perfect aesthetic sense that today, at a seasoned 60, Tears For Fears anchor Roland Orzabal has the long silvery locks and scholarly salt-and-pepper beard of a majestic,...
Oct 11, 2021 · Meanwhile, back in England, Smith's bandmate Roland Orzabal had received an invitation to audition for the reality-TV show Popstar to Operastar. Orzabal, who had sung opera in the past, felt...
Tears for Fears are an English pop rock band formed in Bath in 1981 by Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal. Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate, Tears for Fears were associated with the synth-pop bands of the 1980s, and attained international chart success as part of the Second British Invasion.
Jan 1, 2023 · Co-founded in 1981 by Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal in Bath, England, Tears For Fears’ had a set of influences and creative principles that would see them skew more musically progressive than their peers.
Roland Orzabal: Staying “Absolutely Vital” with Tears For Fears. by Larry Crane | Photographs by Frank Ockenfels. If you look at the history of Tears For Fears, the original duo of Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith only made three albums – The Hurting, Songs from the Big Chair, and The Seeds Of Love – before splitting in 1991.
Feb 24, 2022 · 9. Nearly 40 years ago, British new wave duo Tears for Fears released The Hurting, an opus “very much influenced by a Californian psychologist called Arthur Janov and his primal scream therapy”...
May 18, 2022 · Forty years ago, armored with adolescent angst and a talent for songwriting, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith formed one of pop music’s most influential duos, Tears For Fears. In 1982, they topped...
Feb 25, 2022 · Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith talk about new album 'The Tipping Point,' and why their older classics are a hit with the TikTok generation.
Feb 19, 2022 · As 2020 dawned, Roland Orzabal of Tears for Fears decided it was time to become a functioning human being again. Some 2½ years previously his beloved wife of nearly four decades, Caroline, had...
