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Peter Gabriel (born Peter Brian Gabriel on 13 February 1950) is an internationally-famous award-winning English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career. His 1986 album, So, is his most commercially successful, and the album’s biggest hit, “Sledgehammer”, won a record nine at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards. Throughout his career Gabriel has won numerous music awards, including three Brit Awards (winning Best British Male in 1987), six Grammy Awards, and thirteen MTV Video Music Awards. In 2007 he was honoured as a BMI Icon at the 57th annual BMI London Awards for his “influence on generations of music makers”. In 2009 he was awarded the Polar Music Prize and, in 2010, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis.

Gabriel founded Genesis in 1967 with fellow Charterhouse School pupils Tony Banks, Anthony Phillips, Mike Rutherford, and drummer Chris Stewart. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel began to experiment with various elements of world music as the underpinning for his dense, poetic lyrics. Although he released a series of successful song-oriented albums, Gabriel 1, 2, 3, and 4 (aka Car, Scratch, Melt, and Security), he didn’t really hit a commercial high until 1986 with his now seminal album So and its slightly less successful counterpart Us. After this came a 10 year hiatus until the album Up came out. This was followed by the ground breaking Growing Up tour. There was a DVD released of this tour. His 2010 studio album is Scratch My Back.
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  • Pellkoppf

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGxsE1b-g8A ♫

    26 Apr 2:35pm Reply

  • Adriannafiore

    If it weren't for my brother, Rob, I would never have realized the best music on Earth. Peter Gabriel's music moves me.

    22 Apr 1:55pm Reply

  • Abomination317

    Peter Gabriel is the best one.

    28 Mar 10:52pm Reply

  • Alan_New

    Don’t know which Peter Gabriel album I like more: Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel or Peter Gabriel. Or So.

    27 Mar 7:12am Reply

  • IAJP

    cool, i just found my dad's copy of 'passion'. i probably would never have bothered listening to him but after this i'm definitely going to check out his other stuff, mighty good.

    25 Mar 8:23pm Reply

  • lululusanji

    Thank god WALL-E introduced me to his music [11]

    25 Mar 12:35am Reply

  • MezzallicA

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1g3S18a5u4 IN YOUR EYES! Hi everybody!! This is our solidarity proposal from Italy to Africa! We hope you like it! PG the best!

    17 Mar 2:01am Reply

  • FutureOfTheLeft

    CURTAINS

    11 Mar 10:35pm Reply

  • marfis

    Soft rock, prog rock, art rock... who cares. I think PG is pretty much timeless - this is probably the reason for your discussion - you can't put him in a labeled box...

    4 Mar 4:44pm Reply

  • kaleido37

    anyways, Thank god WALL-E introduced me to his music [10]

    4 Mar 1:55am Reply

  • kaleido37

    "'art rock'." Die.[2]

    4 Mar 1:54am Reply

  • Delirium-Cordia

    "'art rock'." Die.

    24 Feb 9:33pm Reply

  • Dasein_60

    Let it begin .... I here San Jacinto in this track.

    8 Feb 7:51am Reply

  • ppgirls

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    7 Feb 9:05am Reply

  • Akayz7

    thank phil collins my peter gabriel introduced me to my dad. [3 (Melt)]

    5 Feb 2:28pm Reply

  • BoothsBullet

    if you dig peter gabriel, there's a chance you'll dig my stuff: http://willbrant.bandcamp.com

    13 Jan 8:46pm Reply

  • jazzthieve

    Having prog-rock influences certainly doesn't make it progressive rock. It's not because he has the roots with Genesis that his solo music also is prog rock-like. His 80's music certainly fits the bill of pop-rock / soft rock pretty well. After the 80s his music became a bit more diverse and more unique in style but still far from prog rock (which in essence died completely in the late 70s). If I would call it anything it would be 'art rock'.

    13 Jan 3:59pm Reply

  • jaateloauto

    hauzzer: Definitely has prog-rock influences. Although such an impression would be understandable if you go by the top tracks in Last.fm. Soft rock though when you look at his best work fits the bill even worse. The top tracks aren't really indicative of his albums.

    12 Jan 7:08pm Reply

  • Pellkoppf

    http://youtu.be/dGxsE1b-g8A ♫

    8 Jan 5:38pm Reply

  • hauzzer

    This isn't ... More like with healthy instrumentation.

    3 Jan 1:45pm Reply
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