Kevin Killen (born October 22, 1959) is a Grammy Award-winning Irish music producer , engineer , and mixer known for his work with recording artists including U2 , Peter Gabriel , Elvis Costello , Tori Amos , Kate Bush , Jewel , Bon Jovi , Shawn Colvin , Shakira , and David Bowie .
101-445: Paula Dorothy Cole (born April 5, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter and producer. After gaining attention for her performances as a vocalist on Peter Gabriel 's 1993–1994 Secret World Tour , she released her first album, Harbinger , which suffered from a lack of promotion when the label, Imago Records , folded shortly after its release. Her second album, This Fire (1996), brought her worldwide acclaim, peaking at number 20 on
202-615: A Juno Award for recording and mixing Johnny Reid 's Fire It Up CD as Best Country Album. At the 59th Annual Grammy Awards held in February 2017, Kevin was awarded a Grammy for co-producing and mixing Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble’s Sing Me Home for Best World Music Album. In addition, he was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for David Bowie’s final studio album – Blackstar and
303-442: A kaftan and beads, showered the audience with petals he had picked from neighbouring gardens. In April 1967, after Garden Wall had disbanded, Gabriel and Banks were invited by fellow pupils Anthony Phillips and Mike Rutherford to work on a demo tape of songs. Gabriel and Banks contributed "She Is Beautiful", the first song they wrote together. The tape was sent to former Charterhouse pupil turned musician Jonathan King , who
404-672: A European leg from September 2013 to December 2014. In 2014, Gabriel was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist by Coldplay frontman Chris Martin . They performed Gabriel's "Washing of the Water" together. Gabriel performed " Heroes " by David Bowie with an orchestra at a concert in Berlin to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 2014. In 2016, he
505-518: A Puerto Rican youth living in New York City, and insisted upon writing all the lyrics himself, whereas on previous albums the lyrics had been divided among all the members of Genesis. Tensions increased during this period, and Gabriel split with the band to pursue a film project with William Friedkin , only to rejoin a week later. Matters were complicated further with the difficult birth of Gabriel's first daughter, resulting in periods of time away from
606-439: A boyishly short haircut, wearing loose fitting black sweatclothes, combat boots and nose ring . Imago Records folded and promotion of Harbinger was limited, affecting its sales. A single, "I Am So Ordinary", was released with a black-and-white video that reflected the album's artwork. In late 1996, Cole released her second album on Warner, This Fire , which was entirely self-produced. The album's debut single, " Where Have All
707-460: A champion of world music for much of his career. He co-founded the WOMAD festival in 1982. He has continued to focus on producing and promoting world music through his Real World Records label. He has pioneered digital distribution methods for music, co-founding OD2 , one of the first online music download services. Gabriel has also been involved in numerous humanitarian efforts. In 1980, he released
808-492: A collection of his own songs with an orchestra. The result, New Blood , was released in October 2011. In September 2012, Gabriel kicked off his Back to Front Tour which featured So (1986) performed in its entirety with the original musicians who played on the album, to mark its 25th anniversary. When the opening leg finished a month later, Gabriel took one year off to travel the world with his children. The tour resumed with
909-534: A fan invading the stage. The incident received front-page coverage in Melody Maker , giving them national exposure which allowed the group to double their performance fee. One of Gabriel's stories was printed on the liner notes of their live album, Genesis Live (1973). By late 1973, following the success of Selling England by the Pound (1973), which centred on English themes and literary and materialistic references,
1010-532: A floor tom-tom. Gabriel remarked of his early influences, " Hymns played quite a large part. They were the closest I came to soul music before I discovered soul music. There are certain hymns that you can scream your lungs out on, and I used to love that. It was great when you used to get the old shivers down the back." At age 12, Gabriel wrote his first song, "Sammy the Slug". Around this time, an aunt gave him money for professional singing lessons, but he used it to buy
1111-444: A fox's head, mimicking the album's cover. The idea of the fox costume had been suggested to him by Paul Conroy and Glen Colson, employees of Genesis's record label, Charisma Records . Gabriel said he consulted the rest of Genesis about the fox costume but grew tired of arguing about it, but the other members all maintained that nothing was said about it beforehand and that when Gabriel came out in costume they initially mistook him for
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#17328446725111212-478: A frontman, and during an encore performance of " The Knife " on 19 June 1971, he took a running jump into the audience, expecting them to catch him, only for them to instead move out of the way and leave him to land on the floor, breaking an ankle. He consequently had to perform Genesis's next several shows with a wheelchair and crutches. Also during the Trespass tour, he started to recite stories to introduce numbers as
1313-479: A hiatus to raise her daughter, Sky. A fourth album was recorded with Hugh Padgham but the label refused to release it; in 2005 Cole uploaded one of the tracks, " Singing Out My Life ", to her own website to get her sound heard. She also recorded a song called "It's My Life" during these sessions, which can be heard in Mercury automobile commercials. Cole also made a home recording of a song protesting President Bush and
1414-475: A lengthy argument with Banks, he was allowed to play a minor keyboard part on " I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) ", only for this part to be left out of the mix. "I Know What I Like" became Genesis's first hit single, reaching number 21 in the UK Singles Chart . The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974) was Gabriel's final studio album with Genesis. He devised its story of the spiritual journey of Rael,
1515-611: A lyric from her song Tiger . Cole announced a new Kickstarter project on June 16, 2016, for a covers studio album, Ballads . It raised $ 76,899. The album was released on August 11, 2017. The first single, a cover of Billie Holiday 's " God Bless the Child ", was released on June 1. The album hit #9 on the Billboard Traditional Jazz Album Chart. Paula Cole released her ninth studio album, Revolution , on September 13, 2019, on 675 Records. In 2021, Cole released
1616-646: A musical family. Gabriel was raised at Deep Pool Farm, Coxhill, a Victorian manor just outside Chobham. His great-great-great-uncle, Sir Thomas Gabriel, 1st Baronet , was Lord Mayor of London from 1866 to 1877. Gabriel attended Cable House, a private primary school in Woking , Surrey, followed by St Andrews Preparatory School for Boys in Horsell , Surrey. During his time at the latter, his teachers noticed his singing talent, but he opted for piano lessons from his mother and developed an interest in drumming. At age 10, he purchased
1717-508: A noise processing technique which came about while recording drums on " Intruder ", one of the tracks featuring Phil Collins . Collins implemented the reverb to great effect on his debut solo single " In the Air Tonight " and it has since became a signature sound of the 1980s and beyond. Upon completion Atlantic Records , Gabriel's US distributor who had released his first two albums, refused to put out Peter Gabriel 3: Melt as they thought it
1818-525: A powerful and original way". Gabriel used musicians from WOMAD to perform instrumental pieces with focus on rhythm and African, Middle Eastern and European textures, using the National Sound Archive in London for additional inspiration. The initial plan had dedicated ten weeks for recording before it was cut to three, leaving Gabriel unable to finish all the pieces he originally wanted to record. When
1919-587: A radio public service announcement . On July 10, 2007, Cole sang " God Bless America " during the seventh-inning stretch of the 2007 Major League Baseball All-Star Game . In August 2007, Cole toured with Mandy Moore , playing mid-size venues in the western United States. On June 17, 2008, she sang " The Star-Spangled Banner " at Game 6 of the NBA Finals in Boston. In August 2008 and 2009, Cole continued to tour and promote her CD Courage . Since 2013, Cole has been on
2020-512: A record deal by the jazz label GRP Records , but decided to turn it down. After graduating Berklee, she moved to San Francisco and began working on song ideas. She lived with three roommates and ate meagerly, building up her home studio and writing down song ideas including one that later became " Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? " Impressing label president Terry Ellis with her demo performances, she signed with his Imago Records in 1992, and
2121-522: A solo career with " Solsbury Hill " as his first single. His fifth studio album, So (1986), is his best-selling release and is certified triple platinum in the UK and five times platinum in the US. The album's most successful single, " Sledgehammer ", won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards and, according to a report in 2011, it was MTV 's most played music video of all time. Gabriel has been
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#17328446725112222-567: A solo piano version of "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?", which was replayed by the full band toward the end of the concert. Her performance was reviewed favorably in The Boston Globe on February 19, 2007. In March 2007, her official MySpace page previewed three new songs from Courage : "Comin' Down", "El Greco", and the album's first single, entitled "14". Cole is a member of the Canadian charity Artists Against Racism, and worked with them on
2323-521: A typical Genesis show had Gabriel wear fluorescent make-up, a cape, and bat wings for " Watcher of the Skies ", a helmet, chest plate, and a shield for " Dancing with the Moonlit Knight ", a crown of thorns and a flower mask for " Supper's Ready ", and an old man mask for "The Musical Box". Gabriel continued to fight for involvement with Genesis's keyboards throughout his time with the group, and following
2424-518: A way to cover the silence between songs while the band tuned their instruments, or while technical faults were being fixed. These stories were all improvised on the spot, and evolved as the tour went along. The opener of their next studio album, Nursery Cryme (1971), " The Musical Box ", was their first song in which Gabriel incorporated a story and characters into the lyrics; the lyrics to previous story-based Genesis songs such as "White Mountain" and "One-Eyed Hound" were all written by other members of
2525-527: A young man dying in his father's comforting arms. "Feelin' Love" was a single that was included on the soundtrack to City of Angels . In 1996, Cole, along with Sarah McLachlan , Suzanne Vega , Lisa Loeb and others, was a featured performer in a four show mini-tour that served as a prototype for what would become the Lilith Fair tour. She was also a headliner for the Lilith Fair tours in 1997 and 1998. She
2626-512: Is an autobiographical song about a spiritual experience on top of Solsbury Hill in Somerset. "It's about being prepared to lose what you have for what you might get ..." said Gabriel. "It's about letting go." Gabriel toured the album with an 80-date tour from March to November 1977 with a band that included guitarist Robert Fripp of King Crimson often playing off stage and introduced as "Dusty Rhodes". In late 1977, Gabriel started recording
2727-443: Is to do it like a magazine, which will only come out once a year," he remarked in 1978. "So it's the same title, the same lettering in the same place; only the photo is different." Each album has, however, been given a nickname by fans, usually relating to the album cover. Peter Gabriel (a.k.a. Peter Gabriel 1: Car ) was released in February 1977 and reached No. 7 in the UK and No. 38 in the US. Its lead single , " Solsbury Hill ",
2828-554: The Billboard 200 album chart and producing two hit singles, the triple- Grammy nominated " Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? ", which reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997, and " I Don't Want to Wait ", which was used as the theme song of the television show Dawson's Creek . Cole was a featured performer in the 1996 prototype mini-tour for Lilith Fair , and also was a headliner for Lilith Fair in 1997 and 1998. She won
2929-822: The 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, but FIFA cancelled the idea in January 2006. At the opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , Gabriel performed John Lennon 's " Imagine ". In November 2006, the Seventh World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Rome presented Gabriel with the Man of Peace award. The award, presented by former General Secretary of the USSR and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev and Walter Veltroni , Mayor of Rome,
3030-512: The 2008 Academy Awards telecast because producers of the show were limiting his performance of "Down to Earth" from WALL-E to 90 seconds. According to Gabriel, his window was reduced to 65 seconds. John Legend and the Soweto Gospel Choir performed the song in his stead. Gabriel's 2009 tour appearances included Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Venezuela. His first ever performance in Peru
3131-541: The Brothers Quay and won a record nine MTV Video Music Awards in 1987. In 1998, it was named MTV's number one animated video of all time. So earned Gabriel two wins at the 1987 Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and Best British Video (for "Sledgehammer"). He was nominated for four Grammy Awards : Best Male Rock Vocal Performance , Song of the Year , and Record of the Year for "Sledgehammer", and Album of
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3232-437: The Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1998, and also became the first woman ever to be nominated for "Producer of the Year" in her own right in that same year. Her third album, 1999's Amen , marked a major stylistic departure for Cole, and this alienated many of her former fans; the album sales were disappointing compared to the multi-Platinum sales of her prior effort. She has since released several more albums, including
3333-621: The Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video in 1993 and 1994 for the videos to "Digging in the Dirt" and "Steam", respectively. Gabriel also won the 1996 Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video for his Secret World Live video. In 1997, Gabriel was invited to participate in the direction and soundtrack of the Millennium Dome Show , a live multimedia performance staged in the Millennium Dome in London throughout 2000. Gabriel said
3434-584: The Iraq War titled "My Hero, Mr. President!", which she posted on her website. Cole returned in June 2007 with her fourth studio album, Courage , which was released on Decca Records and produced by Bobby Colomby at Capitol Studios in Hollywood. Cole's fifth studio album, Ithaca , was released September 21, 2010. She wrote and co-produced all of the songs on the album. Cole says it "represents that inner fortitude and
3535-625: The Iraq War . Robert Morast of the Argus Leader reported that Cole was the first "bona fide mainstream musician" to take a public stance against the Iraq war. On her 2019 album Revolution , Cole covered a version of the Marvin Gaye song Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) which she said was about "planetary health". Cole told Billboard Magazine that while love songs matter, there should also be songs about important societal issues. Cole's song "Silent", also on
3636-486: The Pixar film WALL-E soundtrack in 2008 with Thomas Newman , including the film's closing song, " Down to Earth ", for which they received the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media . The song was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and an Academy Award for Best Original Song . In February 2009, Gabriel announced that he would not be performing on
3737-569: The jazz -influenced Courage (2007) and Ithaca (2010), which marked a return to her 1990s folk-rock sound. Her most recent release was titled American Quilt , and came out in May 2021. Cole's music sometimes addresses social issues, such as gender stereotypes , environmental issues, the history of slavery in the United States , and the Iraq war . Besides recording and performing, Cole has also served on
3838-468: The second Peter Gabriel studio album (a.k.a. Peter Gabriel 2: Scratch ) in the Netherlands, with Fripp as producer. Its "Mother of Violence" was written by Gabriel and his first wife Jill. Released in June 1978, the album went to No. 10 in the UK and No. 45 in the US. Gabriel's tour for the album lasted from August to December 1978. On this tour, Gabriel and his band shaved their heads. Gabriel recorded
3939-503: The third Peter Gabriel studio album (a.k.a. Peter Gabriel 3: Melt ) in England in 1979. He developed an interest in African music and drum machines and later hailed the record as his artistic breakthrough. Gabriel banned the use of cymbals on the album in order to grant more sonic space for instruments like keyboards and synths. This resulted in the creation of the distinctive gated reverb ,
4040-509: The 100 most influential people in the world in 2008. AllMusic described Gabriel as "one of rock's most ambitious, innovative musicians, as well as one of its most political". He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010, and as a solo artist in 2014. In March 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of South Australia in recognition of his achievements in music. Peter Brian Gabriel
4141-439: The 1990s. He planned its release in the US without assistance from a label; he raised £2 million towards the recording and distribution of the album with Ingenious Media with the worldwide release handled through Warner Bros. Records . Gabriel appeared on a nationwide tour for the album in 2009. Gabriel was a judge for the 6th and 8th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists. Gabriel contributed to
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4242-582: The 1996 Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video , naming director Francois Girard and producer Robert Warr. Gabriel employed an innovative approach in the marketing of the Us album. Not wishing to feature only images of himself, he asked artist filmmakers Nichola Bruce and Michael Coulson to co-ordinate a marketing campaign using contemporary artists. Artists such as Helen Chadwick , Rebecca Horn , Nils-Udo , Andy Goldsworthy , David Mach and Yayoi Kusama collaborated to create original artworks for each song on
4343-440: The 1996 Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video . Cole was also the main female vocalist on Secret World Live , the audio album documenting the tour. The tour gave Cole international exposure as well as experience performing on a large stage. Her performance earned high praise: in a retrospective review, PopMatters wrote that Cole was "one of the real stars" on the tour, that she easily handled Kate Bush's parts, and that she
4444-707: The Australian film Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) with worldbeat music. Released in June 2002, Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Score – Motion Picture. Later in 2002, Up , Gabriel's first full-length studio album in a decade, was released in September 2002. He started work on it in 1995 before production halted three years later to focus time on other projects and collaborations. Work resumed in 2000, by which time Gabriel had 130 potential songs for
4545-673: The Beatles ' debut studio album Please Please Me (1963). In September 1963, he started at Charterhouse , a public school in Godalming , Surrey. There, he was a drummer and vocalist for his first band: the trad jazz outfit the Milords (or M'Lords). This was followed by a holiday band called the Spoken Word, which recorded an acetate in 1966. Gabriel played drums in both these bands, and his schoolmate Mike Rutherford commented in 1985 that "Pete
4646-448: The Cowboys Gone? ", went to No. 8 on Billboard magazine's pop chart. The follow-up single " I Don't Want to Wait " reached No. 11, its popularity bolstered by its use as the theme song for the hit teen drama series Dawson's Creek which debuted over a year after the album. The single "Me" (No. 35 Airplay chart) was also released as a radio-only single. The title "Hush, Hush, Hush", a duet with Peter Gabriel , talks about AIDS and about
4747-498: The Dirt " directed by John Downer. Accompanied by a video featuring Gabriel covered in snails and various foliage, this song made reference to the psychotherapy which had taken up much of Gabriel's time since the previous studio album. Gabriel describes his struggle to get through to his daughter in " Come Talk to Me " directed by Matt Mahurin , which featured backing vocals by Sinéad O'Connor . O'Connor also lent vocals to " Blood of Eden ", directed by Nichola Bruce and Michael Coulson,
4848-943: The Inside featuring three chart singles in "All I Want to Do", "Already Gone" and "It Happens", all Number One hits on the Billboard country singles charts. In 2014, he mixed Suzanne Vega 's latest release Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles and recorded David Bowie's single " Sue (Or in a Season of Crime) " from his release, Nothing Has Changed . Killen was awarded five Grammys for his contributions to Shakira 's 2005 album Oral Fixation, Vol. 1 . He has received Grammy nominations for Best Jazz Instrumental Category for his work on Allen Toussaint 's The Bright Mississippi (2009) and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, for Seth Glier 's The Trouble With People (2012). In 2013 he received
4949-461: The Secret World Tour in 1994. The couple divorced in 2007. They have one daughter, Sky, born in 2001. Cole is openly bisexual and came out in 2022. Peter Gabriel Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter and human rights activist. He was the original lead singer of the progressive rock band Genesis . After leaving the band in 1975, he launched
5050-448: The UK and No. 28 in the US. The second single, " Shock the Monkey ", became Gabriel's first top 40 hit in the US, reaching No. 29. To handle American distribution, Gabriel signed with Geffen Records , which—initially unbeknown to Gabriel—titled the album Security to differentiate it from the first three. Gabriel's 1982 tour lasted a year and became his first to make a profit. Recordings from
5151-520: The UK. Gabriel toured worldwide with the New Blood Tour from March 2010 to July 2012 with a 54-piece orchestra and his daughter Melanie and Norwegian singer-songwriter Ane Brun on backing vocals. The follow-up, And I'll Scratch Yours , was released in September 2013. During the New Blood Tour, Gabriel decided to expand on the Scratch My Back concept and, with Metcalfe's assistance, re-record
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#17328446725115252-508: The US alone. It produced one of Gabriel's signature songs, that has become a concert staple: In Your Eyes , with a distinctive vocal appearance by Youssou N'Dour , and three UK top 20 singles: " Sledgehammer ", " Big Time " and " Don't Give Up ", a duet with Kate Bush . The first went to No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 , Gabriel's only single of his career to do so. It knocked " Invisible Touch " by Genesis, his former band, out of
5353-426: The US. Up until 1989, Gabriel was managed by Gail Colson . From 1989 to 1992, Gabriel recorded his follow-up to So , titled Us . The album saw Gabriel address personal themes, including his failed first marriage, psychotherapy, and the growing distance between him and his eldest daughter at the time. Gabriel's introspection within the context of the album Us can be seen in the first single release " Digging in
5454-518: The Year for So . Gabriel toured worldwide to support So with the This Way Up Tour, from November 1986 to October 1987. In 1988, Gabriel became involved as composer for Martin Scorsese 's film The Last Temptation of Christ (1988). Scorsese had contacted Gabriel about the project since 1983 and wished, according to Gabriel, to present "the struggle between the humanity and divinity of Christ in
5555-442: The album American Quilt . Cole said her 1996 song " Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? " was intended as a commentary on gender stereotypes, but the feminist message was misinterpreted by many listeners who did not realize the song was intended to be satirical. In 2003, Cole recorded a song called "My Hero, Mr. President" that she released for free download, which was critical of President George W. Bush and America's involvement in
5656-549: The album Revolution, is about her experience of being sexually assaulted early in her career and her refusal to continue to be silent about the experience. In May 2021, Cole told USA Today that her song "Hidden in Plain Sight" addressed the "shameful history of slavery." Cole performed a two-hour set at Berklee Performance Center in Boston, Massachusetts on February 16, 2007, during which she debuted several songs from her upcoming fourth studio album, Courage . The set began with
5757-679: The album was recorded in one week at a barn in Massachusetts. The musicians included co-producer/drummer Ben Wittman, guitarist Kevin Barry and bassist Tony Levin . She has worked with Wittman and Barry since she was 19. 7 is Cole's seventh studio album, released on March 23, 2015, via Cole's website and to other digital music outlets on April 10, 2015. In Cole's words, it is "a collection of songs that came suddenly and urgently. The songs demanded to be written and released, as if my subconscious needed to reach out to me; to tell me what it thought about all I
5858-512: The album, and spent almost two years on it before management at Virgin Records pushed Gabriel to complete it. Up reached No. 9 in the US and No. 11 in the UK, and supported with a world tour with a band that included Gabriel's daughter Melanie on backing vocals. The tour was documented with two live DVDs: Growing Up Live (2003) and Still Growing Up: Live & Unwrapped (2005). In 2004, Gabriel met with his former Genesis bandmates to discuss
5959-519: The anti- apartheid single " Biko ". 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. Gabriel developed The Elders with Richard Branson , which was launched by Nelson Mandela in 2007. Gabriel has won three Brit Awards —winning Best British Male in 1987, six Grammy Awards , thirteen MTV Video Music Awards ,
6060-503: The audience in a crucifix position. The stunt became a staple of his live shows. On Peter Gabriel four (a.k.a. Peter Gabriel 4: Security ), Gabriel took on greater responsibility over the production than before. He recorded it in 1981 and 1982, solely on digital tape, with a mobile studio parked at his home, Ashcombe House , in Somerset. Gabriel utilized a Fairlight CMI digital sampling synthesizer and incorporated electronic instrumentation with sampling world beat percussion. "Over
6161-431: The band of his intention to leave at its conclusion. Rutherford recalled that they all "could see it coming." Music critics often focused their reviews on Gabriel's theatrics and took the band's musical performance as secondary, which irritated the rest of the band. The tour ended in May 1975, after which Gabriel wrote a piece for the press on 15 August, entitled "Out, Angels Out", about his departure, his disillusion with
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#17328446725116262-425: The band. The other members complained that Gabriel was showing a lack of commitment to the band. Gabriel saw this as a "really unsympathetic handling of my dealing with a family crisis" and said it caused a breakdown in his relationships with the rest of Genesis; Rutherford later admitted that they had been overly fixated on their music and were very unhelpful in what must have been a difficult time for Gabriel. Gabriel
6363-449: The business, and his desire to spend time with his family. The news stunned fans of the group and left commentators wondering if the band could survive without him. His exit resulted in drummer Phil Collins reluctantly taking over on lead vocals after 400 singers were fruitlessly auditioned. Gabriel described his break from the music business as his "learning period", during which he took piano and music lessons. He had recorded demos by
6464-498: The course of the last two albums," he observed, "I've got back into a rhythm consciousness. And the writing—particularly with the invention of these drum machines—is fantastic. You can store in their memories rhythms that interest you and excite you. And then the groove will carry on without you, and the groove will be exactly what you want it to be, rather than what a drummer thinks is appropriate for what you're doing." The fourth Peter Gabriel , released in September 1982, hit No. 6 in
6565-509: The end of 1975, the fruits of a period of writing around 20 songs with his friend Martin Hall. After preparing material for a studio album Gabriel recorded his solo debut, Peter Gabriel , in 1976 and 1977 in Toronto and London, with producer Bob Ezrin . Gabriel did not title his first four studio albums. All were labelled Peter Gabriel , using the same typeface, with designs by Hipgnosis . "The idea
6666-649: The faculty at Berklee College of Music since 2013. Cole was raised in Rockport, Massachusetts . Her mother, Stephanie Cole, a mixed media artist, was an elementary school art teacher; her father, Jim Cole, was a professor of biology and ecology at Salem State College and played bass in the polka band "Johnny Prytko and the Connecticut Hi-Tones". Her older sister Irene played piano. She has stated she has Irish, Swedish, Italian, Polish, English and Native American ancestry. She attended Rockport High School where she
6767-528: The film was finished, Gabriel worked on the soundtrack for an additional four months to develop more of his unfinished ideas. Its soundtrack was released as Passion in June 1989. It won Gabriel a Grammy Award for Best New Age Performance and a nomination for a Golden Globe for Best Original Score – Motion Picture . In 1990, Gabriel put out his first compilation album, Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats , which sold 2 million copies in
6868-724: 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 . He was made a BMI Icon at the 57th annual BMI London Awards for his "influence on generations of music makers". In recognition of his many years of human rights activism, he received the Man of Peace award from the Nobel Peace Prize laureates in 2006, and Time magazine named him one of
6969-410: The flute, accordion, tambourine and bass drum, and incorporating his soul music influences. Gabriel explained that he was driven to play these instruments because he was uncomfortable with doing nothing during instrumental sections. He would have preferred to play keyboard instruments, but "Tony [Banks] was extraordinarily possessive about the keyboards. I'd done a bit of flute at school, I always liked
7070-561: The group. Gabriel was the primary writer of "Harold the Barrel", another story song on Nursery Cryme , with Collins helping him on the lyrics. The shows featuring Foxtrot (1972) marked a key development in Gabriel's stage performance. During a gig in Dublin in September 1972, he disappeared from the set during the instrumental section of " The Musical Box " and reappeared in his wife's red dress and
7171-403: The journey I've been on." Raven , Cole's sixth studio album, was funded by a Kickstarter campaign which ran from September 22 to October 29, 2012, and raised $ 75,258. The album was released on April 23, 2013, on her 675 label. Cole wrote the 11 songs on the album including two from early in her career, "Imaginary Man" and "Manitoba". Her mother had saved these songs on cassette tapes. Most of
7272-467: The multi-million-selling CD. Coulson and Bruce documented the process on Hi-8 video. Bruce left Real World and Coulson continued with the campaign, using the documentary background material as the basis for a promotional EPK, the long-form video All About Us and the interactive CD-ROM Xplora1: Peter Gabriel's Secret World . Gabriel won three more Grammy Awards , all in the Music Video category. He won
7373-530: The next four years. He first worked with U2 in 1982, assisting Steve Lillywhite on the band's 1983 album War . His work with U2 continued with The Unforgettable Fire , working with the production/engineering team of Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois , who Killen would again work with on Peter Gabriel 's So . In 1991, Killen co-produced and mixed the original soundtrack to the popular music film , The Commitments . Among Killen's more recent credits include, mixing Sugarland 's multi-platinum Love on
7474-654: The possibility of staging The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974) as a reunion tour. He ultimately dismissed the idea, paving the way for Banks, Rutherford and Collins to organise the Turn It On Again: The Tour . Gabriel produced and performed at the Eden Project Live 8 concert in July 2005. He joined Cat Stevens on stage to perform " Wild World " during Nelson Mandela 's 46664 concert. In 2005, FIFA asked Gabriel and Brian Eno to organise an opening ceremony for
7575-459: The release of the album with the Secret World Tour , first using touring keyboardist Joy Askew to sing O'Connor's part, then O'Connor herself for a few months. O'Connor quit the tour, and was replaced by Paula Cole , the latter appearing on the tour recordings: a double album Secret World Live , and a concert video also called Secret World Live , both released in 1994. The film received
7676-484: The sound, and a little bit of oboe (I was an even worse oboe player, but it made a couple of good noises now and again). Then the bass drum was something physical, visual, that I could kick hard and occasionally it was in time!" The album sold little and at one point, Gabriel secured a place at London School of Film Technique because Genesis "seemed to be dying." Genesis recruited guitarist Steve Hackett and drummer Phil Collins . Gabriel began growing in confidence as
7777-410: The soundtrack to Birdy , Gabriel shifted his musical focus from rhythm and texture, as heard on Peter Gabriel four and Birdy , towards more straightforward songs. In 1985, he recorded his fifth studio album, So (also co-produced with Lanois). So was released in May 1986 and reached No. 1 in the UK and No. 2 in the US. It remains Gabriel's best-selling album with over five million copies sold in
7878-483: The team were given free rein, which contributed to the various problems they encountered with it, such as a lack of proper budgeting. He also felt that management, while succeeding to get the building finished on time, failed to understand the artistic side of the show and its content. Gabriel's soundtrack was released as OVO in June 2000. The Story of OVO was released in the CD-booklet-shaped comic book which
7979-513: The third single to be released from the album, and once again dealing with relationship struggles, this time going right back to Adam 's rib for inspiration. The album is one of Gabriel's most personal. It met with less success than So , reaching No. 2 in the album chart on both sides of the Atlantic, and making modest chart impact with the singles "Digging in the Dirt" and the funkier " Steam ", which evoked memories of "Sledgehammer". Gabriel followed
8080-465: The top spot, which was also their only US number one hit. In the UK, the single went to No. 4. In 1990, Rolling Stone ranked So at No. 14 on its list of "Top 100 Albums of the Eighties". "Sledgehammer" was particularly successful, dealing with sex and sexual relations through lyrical innuendos. Its famed music video was a collaboration between director Stephen R. Johnson , Aardman Animations , and
8181-570: The tour were released on Gabriel's debut live release, Plays Live (1983). Gabriel produced versions of the third and fourth Peter Gabriel albums with German lyrics. The third consisted of the studio recordings, overdubbed with new vocals. The fourth was remixed, with several tracks extended or altered. In 1983, Gabriel developed the soundtrack for Alan Parker 's drama film Birdy (1984), co-produced with Daniel Lanois . This consisted of new material, without lyrics, as well as remixed instrumentals from his previous studio album. After finishing
8282-474: The two last legs of Peter Gabriel 's 1993–94 Secret World tour. A video of the concert was shot just days after Cole joined the tour. The video was released as Secret World Live , with Cole covering all the primary female vocals and featured in duets with Gabriel, especially the songs " Don't Give Up " on which she sang the part that Kate Bush recorded with Gabriel in 1986, and " Blood of Eden " recorded by Gabriel and Sinéad O'Connor in 1992. The film received
8383-584: The voice faculty at Berklee College of Music while continuing an active performing career. In 2024, Cole competed in season twelve of The Masked Singer as "Ship" where she briefly rode a ship-like vehicle in the first appearance and had Jewel (who won season six as "Queen of Hearts") as her Mask Ambassador. She was eliminated in the Group A finals alongside Marsai Martin as "Woodpecker" and did an encore of "I Don't Want to Wait". In June 2002, Cole married Moroccan musician Hassan Hakmoun , whom she had met on
8484-583: Was "maybe a superior vocalist" to Sinéad O'Connor. Shortly after the tour, Cole released her first album Harbinger in 1994. She appeared with Melissa Etheridge to sing a duet on VH1 . Imago Records went out of business a few months after the album came out. In 1995, Cole signed on to Warner Bros. Records . Warner reissued Harbinger in the autumn of 1995. Harbinger featured songs dwelling on Cole's personal thoughts on discrimination and unhappiness. The songs were musically lush but driven and bleak. The accompanying artwork featured photographs of Cole with
8585-417: Was - and still is, I think - a frustrated drummer." In 1965, Gabriel formed Garden Wall with school friends Tony Banks on piano, Johnny Trapman on trumpet, and Chris Stewart on drums. Banks had started at Charterhouse at the same time as Gabriel; the two were uninterested in school activities but bonded over music and started to write songs. At a final concert before they broke up, Gabriel, dressed in
8686-527: Was an acknowledgement of Gabriel's extensive contribution and work on behalf of human rights and peace. The award was presented in the Giulio Cesare Hall of the Campidoglio in Rome. At the end of the year, he was awarded the Q magazine Lifetime Achievement Award, presented to him by American musician Moby . In an interview published in the magazine to accompany the award, Gabriel's contribution to music
8787-569: Was born on 13 February 1950 in Chobham , Surrey , England, son of Ralph Parton Gabriel (1912–2012) and Edith Irene (1921–2016), daughter of Colonel Edward Allen, chairman of the Civil Service Department Store on the Strand, London . Gabriel's father was an electrical engineer and dairy farm-owner from a long-established family of London timber importers and merchants, and his mother was from
8888-705: Was coached by veteran artist's manager John Carter on the album project that would become Harbinger . Cole got her first big professional break when she was invited to perform on Peter Gabriel 's 1993–94 Secret World Tour . To replace Sinéad O'Connor who left the tour, Gabriel sought Cole on the recommendation of his studio engineer Kevin Killen . Gabriel left an answering machine message for her at her apartment in San Francisco, and she immediately flew to Mannheim, Germany , for her only rehearsal with Gabriel, shortly before performing in front of 16,000 people. Cole joined
8989-488: Was described as "vast and enduring." Gabriel took on a project with the BBC World Service 's competition "The Next Big Thing" to find the world's best young band. Gabriel judged the final six young artists with William Orbit , Geoff Travis and Angélique Kidjo . In June 2008, Gabriel released Big Blue Ball , an album of various artists collaborating with each other at his Real World Studios across three summers in
9090-562: Was featured on the song " A.I. " by American pop rock band OneRepublic from their fourth studio album Oh My My . Kevin Killen Killen was studying sciences at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland in 1979 when a friend told him that Lombard Sound Studios was seeking a trainee. The studio hired him, and was engineering within six months. Two years later, Killen left Lombard Sound to work at Windmill Lane Studios , where he worked for
9191-511: Was for Gabriel to cover an artists' song if they, in turn, covered one of his for an album simultaneously released as I'll Scratch Yours , but several participants later declined or were late to deliver and it was placed on hold. Gabriel avoided using drums and guitar in favour of orchestral arrangements, and altered his usual songwriting method by finishing the vocals first and then the song, for which he collaborated with John Metcalfe . Released in February 2010, Scratch My Back reached No. 12 in
9292-525: Was going through. I recorded this album live, as an acoustic quartet. It sounds like a soft, soulful album made in the 1960s and the songs speak for themselves." Cole announced that she was selling her new live album This Bright Red Feeling exclusively on CD at live shows and at her website, with intentions to put it online for digital sale soon. The album is a recording of her live New York City show on May 1, 2016, but also includes re-recordings of two of her biggest commercial hits. The album's title comes from
9393-720: Was held in Lima on 20 March 2009, during his second visit to the country. On 25 July 2009, he played at WOMAD Charlton Park, his only European performance of the year, to promote Witness. The show included two tracks from the then-forthcoming Scratch My Back : Paul Simon 's "The Boy in the Bubble" and the Magnetic Fields ' "The Book of Love". In 2009, Gabriel recorded Scratch My Back , an album of cover songs by various artists including David Bowie , Lou Reed , Arcade Fire , Radiohead , Regina Spektor and Neil Young . The original concept
9494-500: Was immediately enthusiastic, largely due to Gabriel's vocals. He signed the group and suggested a band name of Gabriel's Angels, but it was unpopular with the other members. They settled on King's other suggestion, Genesis . After King suggested they stick to more straightforward pop, Gabriel and Banks wrote " The Silent Sun " as a pastiche of the Bee Gees , one of King's favourite bands. It became Genesis's first single, released in 1968. It
9595-548: Was included on their debut studio album, From Genesis to Revelation (1968). After the commercial failure of From Genesis to Revelation , the band went their separate ways, and Gabriel continued his studies at Charterhouse. In September 1969, Gabriel, Banks, Rutherford and Phillips decided to drop their plans and make Genesis a full-time working band. In early 1970, Gabriel played the flute on Mona Bone Jakon by Cat Stevens . The second studio album by Genesis, Trespass (1970), marked Gabriel expanding his musical output with
9696-438: Was initially not a success but was remixed by producer Jonathan Peters into a successful dance song. The song "Be Somebody" was featured and performed by Paula and the band at P3 on the hit TV show Charmed in 2000. The album which had guest appearances by DJ Premier and long-time Cole fan Tionne Watkins featured some R&B and hip-hop influences but failed to match the success of This Fire . During this time Cole took
9797-515: Was late to deliver the lyrics, but has denied that he was too busy to write much music for the album and relied on contributions from Banks and Rutherford. Banks corroborated that Gabriel was the primary composer of the Lamb songs " The Carpet Crawlers " and "The Chamber of 32 Doors" and the sole composer of "Counting Out Time". During a stop in Cleveland, Ohio, early into the album's tour, Gabriel informed
9898-485: Was nominated for several Grammy Awards in 1997. Among them was "Producer of the Year" (Cole was the third woman to ever be nominated in this category after Janet Jackson in 1990 and Mariah Carey in 1992, but the first as a solo nomination); she did not win, but she did go on to win "Best New Artist" that same year. In 1999 Cole released Amen with the newly formed Paula Cole Band. The album's debut single "I Believe in Love"
9999-537: Was not commercial enough. Gabriel signed a recording contract with Mercury Records . Released in May 1980, the album went to No. 1 in the UK for three weeks. In the US, it peaked at No. 22. The single " Games Without Frontiers " went to No. 4 and " Biko " went to No. 36 in the UK. After a handful of shows in 1979, Gabriel toured the album from February to October 1980. The tour marked Gabriel's first successful instance of crowd surfing (following his failed June 1971 attempt when touring with Genesis) when he fell back into
10100-495: Was part of the CD edition with the title "OVO The Millennium Show". Around that same time, the Genesis greatest hits album, Turn It On Again: The Hits (1999), featured Gabriel sharing vocals with Phil Collins on a new version of " The Carpet Crawlers " entitled "The Carpet Crawlers 1999", produced by Trevor Horn . In 2002 he stuck with soundtrack work for his next project, scoring for
10201-455: Was president of her senior class and performed in school theatrical productions such as South Pacific . Cole then attended Berklee College of Music in Boston , where she studied jazz singing and improvisation with Bob Stoloff . She sang jazz standards at lounges and nightclubs. One of the school projects was with Vox One, a chorus group at Berklee that later turned to pro as well. She was offered
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