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Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

Robert Smith

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Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
Guitarist
Keyboardist
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Singer-Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
Robert James Smith
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