Rob Smith (born 1982 in Dublin, Ireland) is a singer/songwriter and former street busker based in Ireland. In 2004, his home recordings got massive amounts of radio airplay in in Ireland. He has played at the Oxegen Festival in Ireland a number of times and other big music gigs around Dublin. His musical tastes include the Stone Roses and Paul Weller and has been favourably compared to these artists in Irish press, both magazines and newspapers. Several websites have reported that he rejected "more than one" record deal in his lifetime. He has also performed several times with The Stone Roses Experience in the Olympia Theatre in Dublin. He has managed to sell out shows both in Ireland and in the UK. His single "Soul Shaker", was a top 20 hit in Ireland. He is currently recording new material. Rob Smith also performed admirally while acting Cressa, a spare member of the Stone Roses in The Stone Roses Experience gig at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin.
Discography
Image:Nocover.png|"The Soul Shaker LP"2004
Image:Nocover.png|"Soul Shaker"2007 #18 (Ireland Combined Charts)
Trivia
- He currently lives in Terenure in Dublin. Home of fellow Irish artists The Coronas and Republic Of Loose.
- He is an avid fan of FC Barcelona and attends games in Camp Nou a couple of times a season. He has also worn a FC Barcelona shirt live onstage at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin aswell as onstage in The Cavern Club in Liverpool.
- He has dual citizenship for both Ireland and Argentina.
References
Other pages about Irish Argentineans
-Benito Lynch -Camila O'Gorman -Che Guevara -Chris de Burgh -Dalmacio Velez Sarsfield -Domingo Cullen -Eamon Bulfin -Edelmiro Julian Farrell -Edmundo Murray -Eduardo Casey -Franco Niell -Guillermo O'Donnell -Irish settlement in Argentina -John Coghlan (engineer) -Juan Martin de Pueyrredon -Maria Elena Walsh -Norma Nolan -Pacho O'Donnell -Ricardo Lopez Murphy -Rob Smith (musician) -Rodolfo Walsh -The Southern Cross -Tomas MacCormik -William Brown (admiral)
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