![]() It was the dress-wearing, fox-headed entity immortalised on the cover of Foxtrot. In an episode of the 2007 British documentary series Seven Ages of Rock, Steve Hackett recalled the first appearance of Gabriel "in costume". According to Mike Rutherford, this drove Gabriel to find other ways to impress his personality on the audience, leading to his performing in various costumes. CostumesĮarly Genesis concerts were hampered by a bad public address system that made it difficult for audiences to understand what Gabriel was singing. ![]() A backdrop of fluorescent white sheets and a comparatively sparse stage made the band into a set of silhouettes, with Gabriel's fluorescent costume and make-up providing the only other sources of light. The concerts made extensive use of black light with the normal stage lighting subdued or off. Genesis drew some attention in Britain and eventually also in Italy, Belgium, Germany, and other European countries, largely due to Gabriel's flamboyant stage presence, which involved numerous bizarre costume changes and comical, dreamlike stories told as the introduction to each song (originally Gabriel developed these stories solely to cover the time between songs that the rest of the band would take tuning their instruments and fixing technical glitches). ![]() In 1970, he played the flute on the Cat Stevens album, Mona Bone Jakon. Gabriel has said to be influenced by many different sources in his way of singing, such as Family lead singer Roger Chapman and theatrical singer Arthur Brown. The name of the band was suggested by fellow Charterhouse alumnus, the pop music impresario Jonathan King, who produced their first album, From Genesis to Revelation. Gabriel founded Genesis in 1967 with fellow Charterhouse School pupils Tony Banks, Anthony Phillips, Mike Rutherford, and drummer Chris Stewart. He played drums in his first rock bands, and Mike Rutherford commented in 1985 that "Pete was-and still is, I think-a frustrated drummer". ![]() Gabriel attended Cable House, a private primary school in Woking St Andrews Prep School in Horsell and Charterhouse School in Godalming from 1963. His great-great-great-uncle, Sir Thomas Gabriel, 1st Baronet, served as Lord Mayor of London from 1866 to 1877. His father, Ralph Parton Gabriel (1912–2012), was an electrical engineer, and his mother, Edith Irene ( née Allen), who was from a musical family, taught him to play the piano at an early age. Peter Brian Gabriel was born on 13 February 1950 in Chobham, Surrey. In March 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of South Australia in recognition of his achievements in music. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010, followed by his induction as a solo artist in 2014. AllMusic has described Gabriel as "one of rock's most ambitious, innovative musicians, as well as one of its most political". In recognition of his many years of human rights activism, he received the Man of Peace award from the Nobel Peace Prize laureates, and Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was made a BMI Icon at the 57th annual BMI London Awards for his "influence on generations of music makers". Gabriel has won three Brit Awards-winning Best British Male in 1987, six Grammy Awards, thirteen MTV Video Music Awards, the first Pioneer Award at the BT Digital Music Awards, the Q magazine Lifetime Achievement, the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Polar Music Prize. Gabriel developed The Elders with Richard Branson, which was launched by Nelson Mandela in 2007. He has participated in several human rights benefit concerts, including Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour in 1988, and co-founded the Witness human rights organisation in 1992. In 1980, he released the anti-apartheid single "Biko". Gabriel has also been involved in numerous humanitarian efforts. He has also pioneered digital distribution methods for music, co-founding OD2, one of the first online music download services. He has continued to focus on producing and promoting world music through his Real World Records label. He co-founded the WOMAD festival in 1982. Gabriel has been a champion of world music for much of his career. The album's most successful single, "Sledgehammer", won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards. His 1986 album, So, is his best-selling release and is certified triple platinum in the UK and five times platinum in the U.S. After leaving Genesis in 1975, Gabriel launched a successful solo career with "Solsbury Hill" as his first single. Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis.
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