{"name":"Desmond Child","title":"Desmond Child","id":2647,"slug":"desmond-child-1","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/api/v3/core/authors/2647/?format=json","bio_short":"Curt Smith is a musician, singer and songwriter, whose soaring voice is instantly recognizable to the millions of worldwide fans of Tears for Fears, the British group he co-founded in 1981. Still an active, acclaimed musician more than two decades later, Smith released his second solo album, &quot;Halfway, pleased&quot; via his own KOOK Media imprint in May 2008. In addition to his solo career, the prolific Smith has also written music for television and is collaborating on a theatrical musical.\n","artist_img":"//guitarparty.overcastcdn.com/images/CurtSmith1968HS1.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x675-c100.format-jpeg.jpg","songs":[{"id":2254,"title":"Heavens on fire","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/heavens-on-fire/"}]}