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ALBUMI/O (Bright-Side and Dark-Side Mixes)Peter Gabriel
Albums by Peter Gabriel
ALBUMI/O (Bright-Side and Dark-Side Mixes)Peter Gabriel
ALBUMi/o (In-Side Mix)Peter Gabriel
ALBUMGrowing Up LivePeter Gabriel
ALBUMNew Blood (Special Edition)Peter Gabriel
ALBUMScratch My Back (Special Edition)Peter Gabriel
ALBUMUpPeter Gabriel
ALBUMLong Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof FencePeter Gabriel
ALBUMOVOPeter Gabriel
ALBUMSecret World LivePeter Gabriel
ALBUMUs (Remastered)Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel's Popular Music Videos
Sledgehammer
Peter Gabriel
Shock the Monkey
Peter Gabriel
In Your Eyes
Peter Gabriel
Solsbury Hill
Peter Gabriel
Games Without Frontiers
Peter Gabriel
Digging in the Dirt
Peter Gabriel
Don't Give Up
Peter Gabriel
Red Rain
Peter Gabriel
Steam
Peter Gabriel
Biko
Peter Gabriel
Artist Playlists
Peter Gabriel Essentials
Investigations and impulses from one of pop music's most diligent boffins.
Peter Gabriel Video Essentials
The art-pop icon revels in the mind-bending potential of video.
Peter Gabriel: Influences
Blues roots and African branches.
Set List: Peter Gabriel's i/o The Tour
Listen to the hits performed on their blockbuster tour.
Inspired by Peter Gabriel
The art-rock students who followed in his footsteps.
Artist Biography
"Peter Gabriel is one of the first artists to bring art-rock and world music into the mainstream. A key figure of the ’70s and ’80s, the British-born artist/activist started his career as the frontman of Genesis while still a teenager, helping forge a high-concept, restlessly ambitious sound that made the band a cornerstone of progressive rock. (Gabriel himself often changed costume multiple times during live shows, telling fantastical stories to hold the audience while the band retuned their battery of instruments.)
Gabriel left Genesis in the mid-’70s and embarked on a solo career that shaped his arty tendencies into increasingly pop forms, culminating in 1986’s era-defining So. Along with fellow Genesis alum Phil Collins, he became one of the few progressive rockers to survive the cultural transition to punk and New Wave, turning out a series of singles (“Solsbury Hill,” “Shock the Monkey,” “Games Without Frontiers,” “Sledgehammer”) by turns rhythmic, sophisticated, elusive, and complex, not to mention establishing himself as a regular face on MTV.
A champion of world music, he also cofounded the annual WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance) festival in 1980, later launching a label, Real World Records, dedicated to pushing international music onto a global stage. Relatedly, Gabriel has thrown considerable weight behind humanitarian causes, particularly in South Africa (his 1980 single “Biko” was named after anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko)—a legacy that led Nobel Peace Prize Laureates to award him a Man of Peace in 2006."
Gabriel left Genesis in the mid-’70s and embarked on a solo career that shaped his arty tendencies into increasingly pop forms, culminating in 1986’s era-defining So. Along with fellow Genesis alum Phil Collins, he became one of the few progressive rockers to survive the cultural transition to punk and New Wave, turning out a series of singles (“Solsbury Hill,” “Shock the Monkey,” “Games Without Frontiers,” “Sledgehammer”) by turns rhythmic, sophisticated, elusive, and complex, not to mention establishing himself as a regular face on MTV.
A champion of world music, he also cofounded the annual WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance) festival in 1980, later launching a label, Real World Records, dedicated to pushing international music onto a global stage. Relatedly, Gabriel has thrown considerable weight behind humanitarian causes, particularly in South Africa (his 1980 single “Biko” was named after anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko)—a legacy that led Nobel Peace Prize Laureates to award him a Man of Peace in 2006."
Hometown
Chobham, Surrey, England
Genre
Rock