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Monday, 22 August 2011

Born on Aug 22: Roland Orzabal (Tears for Fears)

Roland Jaime Orzabal de la Quintana (born August 22, 1961) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He is known mainly as a co-founding member of Tears for Fears, of which he is the main songwriter and joint vocalist, but he has also achieved success as a producer of other artists.

Suffer the Children was written and sung by Roland Orzabal, it was the band's first release, recorded in Bath, England shortly after the 1981 breakup of Orzabal and Curt Smith's previous band Graduate. The song would eventually be re-recorded for inclusion on Tears for Fears' debut LP The Hurting (1983).

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