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Peter Gabriel

English musician (born 1950)

This article is about the musician. For other uses, see Peter Gabriel (disambiguation).

Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and human rights activist. He came to prominence as the original frontman of the rock band Genesis.[1] He left the band in 1975 and launched a solo career with "Solsbury Hill" as his first single. After releasing four successful studio albums, all titled Peter Gabriel, his fifth studio album So (1986) became 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. A 2011 Time report said "Sledgehammer" was the most played music video of all time on MTV.[2]

A supporter of world music for much of his career, Gabriel co-founded the World of Music, Arts and Dance (WOMAD) festival in 1982,[3] and has continued to produce and promote world music through his Real World

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Karol Beffa

French musician

Karol Beffa, born on 27 October 1973 in Paris, is a French and Swiss composer and pianist.

Biography

Beffa is the son of French-Swiss linguist and ethnologist Marie-Lise Beffa and French linguist Richard Zuber [fr], and the nephew of industrialist Jean-Louis Beffa.[1][2] He studied at École normale supérieure, then economics at ENSAE Paris and at Trinity College, Cambridge.[3]

Beffa studied harmony, counterpoint, fugue, music theory, improvisation and composition at the Conservatoire de Paris, France's premier higher musical education institution, where he won eight first prizes. He taught at Paris-Sorbonne University and at École polytechnique. He wrote his PhD (2003) on György Ligeti's Etudes for piano. Since 2004, he has been an associate professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure.[4]

As a composer, his catalogue consists of several hundred works which have been performed in countries including China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States

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