Peter Gabriel
- Music Artist
- Composer
- Music Department
Peter Gabriel was educated at Charterhouse School, Surrey, England. He
was the lead singer of leading progressive rock band
Genesis from its inception until he
left in 1975 for a successful solo career as a singer-songwriter,
soundtrack composer and innovator in visual presentation of music,
music videos and digital methods of recording and distributing music.
He also became well-known as an anti-apartheid activist, for his
efforts to bring different styles of international music to the
attention of the West by establishing the WOMAD (World of Music, Arts
and Dance) Festival, his own Real World label and recording studios as
well as the addition of world music performers and styles into his own
music.
He has also worked extensively for Amnesty International as well
as many other humanitarian efforts, such as founding his own human
rights organization Witness and co-founding, with
Richard Branson and
Nelson Mandela, world human rights
advocacy group The Elders in July 2007. His dedication to humanitarian
causes was recognized with the Nobel Peace Laureates' Man of Peace
Award in 2006 and Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience
honour in 2008. His career in music has been cited as an inspiration by
many artists, including U2, R.E.M., Kate Bush, Moby, Marillion, Simple Minds, It Bites, Elbow, Darren Hayes (of Savage Garden) and Michael Glabicki (of Rusted Root).
His greatest commercial success came with the "So" album in 1986, which
was a worldwide smash and earned him the British Phonographic Industry
Award for British Male Solo Artist the following year. His lasting
impact on music has been recognized by the Music Industry Trusts' Award
in 2004, the Frankfurt Music Prize, the first Pioneer Award at the BT
Digital Music Awards, the Q Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, the
Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007, the BMI (Broadcast
Music Inc.) Icon Award in 2007, the MIDEM Personality of the Year in
2008 and the Polar Music Prize in 2009. He was inducted into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of
Genesis in 2010. In 2014, he became
the first and so far only Genesis member to join it as a solo artist
when Chris Martin from
Coldplay inducted him.
was the lead singer of leading progressive rock band
Genesis from its inception until he
left in 1975 for a successful solo career as a singer-songwriter,
soundtrack composer and innovator in visual presentation of music,
music videos and digital methods of recording and distributing music.
He also became well-known as an anti-apartheid activist, for his
efforts to bring different styles of international music to the
attention of the West by establishing the WOMAD (World of Music, Arts
and Dance) Festival, his own Real World label and recording studios as
well as the addition of world music performers and styles into his own
music.
He has also worked extensively for Amnesty International as well
as many other humanitarian efforts, such as founding his own human
rights organization Witness and co-founding, with
Richard Branson and
Nelson Mandela, world human rights
advocacy group The Elders in July 2007. His dedication to humanitarian
causes was recognized with the Nobel Peace Laureates' Man of Peace
Award in 2006 and Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience
honour in 2008. His career in music has been cited as an inspiration by
many artists, including U2, R.E.M., Kate Bush, Moby, Marillion, Simple Minds, It Bites, Elbow, Darren Hayes (of Savage Garden) and Michael Glabicki (of Rusted Root).
His greatest commercial success came with the "So" album in 1986, which
was a worldwide smash and earned him the British Phonographic Industry
Award for British Male Solo Artist the following year. His lasting
impact on music has been recognized by the Music Industry Trusts' Award
in 2004, the Frankfurt Music Prize, the first Pioneer Award at the BT
Digital Music Awards, the Q Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, the
Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007, the BMI (Broadcast
Music Inc.) Icon Award in 2007, the MIDEM Personality of the Year in
2008 and the Polar Music Prize in 2009. He was inducted into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of
Genesis in 2010. In 2014, he became
the first and so far only Genesis member to join it as a solo artist
when Chris Martin from
Coldplay inducted him.