Peter Brian Gabriel was born on 13 February 1950, in Chobham, Surrey England. He is a musician, singer, and songwriter, best known for being the lead singer of the progressive rock band Genesis. He has also had a very successful solo career and is responsible for several advancements in music. All of his efforts have helped put his net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Peter Gabriel? As of mid-2016, sources estimate a net worth that is at $70 million, mostly earned through a successful career in the music industry. He has won multiple awards throughout his career, and became one of the biggest influences in music of his time. All of these ensured the current position of his wealth.
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Peter Gabriel Net Worth $70 million
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Peter’s mother was very music oriented, and taught him how to play the piano at a young age. He attended Cable House and then Charterhouse School from 1963. When he was first starting out in bands, he played the drums but would eventually change roles.
In 1967, he founded the band Genesis alongside Charterhouse Schoolmates Chris Stewart, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, and Anthony Phillips. They created their first album entitled “From Genesis to Revelation” and soon would grow in popularity. Gabriel also tried his hand at playing the flute as heard on Cat Steven’s album entitled “Mona Bone Jakon”. Genesis was starting to gain attention in various countries in Europe especially for their stage performances; Peter was well known for his unusual costumes, and soon they would start touring around the world. Eventually, Peter left the band in 1975, a move which surprised a lot of fans; according to him, tension was developing within the band because of his status and stage persona, which became especially noticeable while making their album “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway”, mainly written by Gabriel. He also opted to stay (at home) with his wife and first child, and that helped him reach his decision.
Eventually, Peter embarked on a solo career, and released his first four solo albums called “Peter Gabriel”; in order to separate them from one another, they were marked with roman numerals signifying their order of release, but were also referred to as “Car”, “Scratch”, “Melt”, and “Security” because of the covers’ artwork. Gabriel would pick up on his trend and name subsequent albums using one word, including “Up”, “So”, and “Hit”. His net worth was rising steadily.
After the release of his first album, he embarked on darker experimental tones which led to good reviews but no hit songs. Eventually, Peter found a greater interest in world music and started to apply this on his third album, which would end up gaining significant success with songs such as “Biko” and “Games Without Frontiers”. He would continue to tour to promote each of his albums and would find a significant increase in net worth after the 1986 album “So”, which reached top spots on the Billboard 200 and UK Albums Chart. It also went on to be certified triple platinum in the UK, with multiple chart topping songs in several countries. The song “Sledgehammer” would get nine MTV Music Video Awards and was regarded as one of the pioneers for current music videos, especially in terms of effects.
Gabriel continued his releases, and often worked on soundtracks of films such as “The Last Temptation of Christ”.
Eventually, Gabriel took a break from music, resurfacing in 2000. His return was marked by the release of the album “OVO” and Peter would start working on the soundtrack of the animated film “WALL-E”. In 2010, he released the album “Scratch My Back”, and the follow-up album “And I’ll Scratch Yours” which were mainly cover songs from various popular artists. One of his latest projects is the tribute song entitled “I’m Amazing” which was dedicated to Muhammad Ali.
For his personal life, Peter Gabriel was married Jill Moore(1871-87) and they had two daughters. He then went on to have a relationship with Rosanna Arquette but they never married. Gabriel has been married to Meabh Flynn since 2002, and they have two sons.
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