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Roberta Smith recorded her first songs as a 16-year-old flower-child and she has still retained the fresh-voiced youth of those early recordings. A boho singer-songwriter, she writes in an unusual style, the songs often

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Roberta Smith recorded her first songs as a 16-year-old flower-child and she has still retained the fresh-voiced youth of those early recordings. A boho singer-songwriter, she writes in an unusual style, the songs often unconventional in format and lyrically unexpected. She plays beautiful fingerstyle guitar and in some ways, her music defies comparison, although the influence of the 70s singer-songwriter movement is unmistakable. She started to write songs when she was 15 and rose to almost immediate

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Roberta Smith recorded her first songs as a 16-year-old flower-child and she
has still retained the fresh-voiced youth of those early recordings. A boho
singer-songwriter, she writes in an unusual style, the songs often
unconventional in format and lyrically unexpected. She plays beautiful
fingerstyle guitar and in some ways, her music defies comparison, although the
influence of the 70s singer-songwriter movement is unmistakable.

She started to write songs when she was 15 and rose to almost immediate
success at 16, winning a major talent competition and performing in the winners’ concert at Leeds Town Hall in front of 4,000 people. She was quickly taken up by Esther Ofarim’s (and later Scott Walker’s) management.

At University, she opened for Ralph McTell at Charles Morris Hall, played Leeds University Union and on the university TV network and at many venues in and around Leeds.
After University, marriage and four children, many appearances at many venues and even a spell playing Anne Boleyn in a medieval theatre restaurant, she is still here and still playing, writing and working towards bringing her music to a wider audience. Her passion for songwriting has never waned and she is very excited to be recording again and to be back on the London scene.

Roberta has guested on Radio Leeds, provided background music for the BBC
World Service, played at Leeds Town Hall, London’s Kashmir Club, the Bedford, the Old Town Hall Hemel Hempstead and at the Court Theatre, Tring.

She has also written original music for theatre plays, The Glass Menagerie,
Cider with Rosie and The Graduate.
Her most recent performances were at the Unitarian Church in Cambridge on August 24th 2021 and at the Bedford in London on August 31st 2021

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Education

Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Special Studies at University of Leeds
June 17, 1973

Qualifications

BA Honours Spanish Special Studies
June 19, 1972

Industry Experience

Education, Media & Entertainment
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