Latest Release

- 4 JUN 2023
- Road to Joy (Bright-Side Mix) - Single
- 1 Song
- So · 1986
- Peter Gabriel 1: Car · 1977
- So · 1986
- So · 1986
- Peter Gabriel 3: Melt (Remastered) · 1980
- So (Special Edition) · 1986
- Oh My My (Deluxe) · 2016
- Hit · 1977
- So (Special Edition) · 1986
- Stranger Things (Soundtrack from the Netflix Original Series) · 2005
Essential Albums
- 1992
- His multilayered pop songs are woven with world beats and modern technology.
- The experimental rocker gets particularly political on his third LP.
- 2019
- 2010
- 2002
- 2000
- 1994
2018
2004
2004
2004
2004
Artist Playlists
- Investigations and impulses from one of pop music's most diligent boffins.
- The art-pop icon revels in the mind-bending potential of video.
- Blues roots and African branches.
- The art-rock students who followed in his footsteps.
Live Albums
- 2012
Compilations
- 2019
- 2019
- 2015
- 2015
- 2003
Appears On
- Ava Bowers
- ElectroKingdom
- Hardage & ElectroKingdom
- Angelique Kidjo
About Peter Gabriel
"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 re-tuned 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 co-founded 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
- BORN
- 13 February 1950