He recently contributed to the wall-e soundtrack, singing the end title song Down to Earth, and composing two other tracks. He also sang the Randy Newman composed title song to Babe: Pig in the City called That'll Do.
Gabriel has composed and recorded soundtracks for films as diverse as Birdy (which contained re-purposed snippets of his studio albums to date), Passion: Music from The Last Temptation of Christ, and Rabbit Proof Fence. His 2010 studio album is Scratch My Back. This was followed by the ground breaking Growing Up tour. After this came a 10 year hiatus until the album Up came out.
Although he released a series of successful song-oriented albums, Peter Gabriel 1, 2, 3, and 4 (aka Car, Scratch, Melt, and Security) and chart success in the UK with the top 5 single Games Without Frontiers his commercially strongest period began in 1986 with his now seminal album So and its slightly less successful counterpart Us. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel began to experiment with various elements of world music as the underpinning for his dense, poetic lyrics. Gabriel founded Genesis in 1967 with fellow Charterhouse School pupils Tony Banks, Anthony Phillips, Mike Rutherford, and drummer Chris Stewart. In 2009 he was awarded the Polar Music Prize and, in 2010, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis. In 2007 he was honoured as a BMI Icon at the 57th annual BMI London Awards for his “influence on generations of music makers”.
Throughout his career Gabriel has won numerous music awards, including three Brit Awards (winning Best British Male in 1987), six Grammy Awards, and thirteen MTV Video Music Awards. His 1986 album, So, is his most commercially successful, and the album's biggest hit, "Sledgehammer", won a record nine at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards.
After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career. Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an internationally-famous award-winning English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis.