Gabriel's earliest preoccupation was rock music at Charterhouse, a reputable English boarding school, he cofounded a band with some friends. And in some ways I've tried to carry it on." The singer told Los Angeles Times writer Amy Harmon that Gabriel senior "was campaigning for electronic democracy, for home shopping, films on demand and education and entertainment accessible to anyone." These concepts may have seemed outlandish in the days when the novelty of television hadn't yet worn off, but Gabriel noted, "I listened to him and championed the idea since I was old enough to understand what he was saying. His father, an Italian-born electrical engineer, was something of a visionary whose interests prefigured many of his son's technological passions. Gabriel was born in Cobham, a town in the English county of Surrey, in 1950.
He has also founded his own production facility and record label, campaigned for a bevy of worthy causes, and made strides toward the establishment of the first digital theme park. Since his departure from the progressive rock band Genesis in the mid-1970s, he has produced an ambitious-and at times tremendously successful-body of work as a solo artist.
Yet the clarity of his vision reconciles his differing impulses. A shy Englishman with a penchant for rock spectacle, a fiercely cerebral writer who champions the liberation of the body and the emotions, and a gatherer of ancient international music who also works on the frontier of interactive technology, Gabriel embraces an array of seemingly incompatible pursuits.
PETER GABRIEL IN YOUR EYES MANDELS FULL
E-mail- the surface, singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel seems full of contradictions. Other-Real World Information (SASE required): The Box Magazine, P.O.
Addresses: Record company-Real World/Geffen, 9130 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90069. Education: Attended Charterhouse public school in Godalming, Surrey. Born May 13, 1950, in Cobham, Surrey, England son of an electrical engineer married Jill Moore (divorced) children: Melanie, Anna-Marie.