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Peter Gabriel
Music
Events
Conspiracy of Hope. 1986. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Atlanta, Chicago, New York City, East Rutherford, Dublin, Wanganui 04-Jun-1986
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Human Rights Now! Tour 1988. 02-Sep-1988
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‘WITNESS empowers people to record injustice as it happens, and makes us all eye WITNESSes to human rights violations.’
Born in London in 1950 Peter Gabriel co-founded the band Genesis while still at school. He was part of Genesis from 1967 to 1975, when he left to pursue a solo career. In 1980, he collected together a group of talents to found WOMAD, which brings together traditional and modern music, arts, and dance from every corner of the globe.
Gabriel has been involved in a broad spectrum of human rights and environmental issues. In 1986 Gabriel joined U2, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, and many other artists for Amnesty International's Conspiracy of Hope tour, celebrating the organisation's 25th anniversary. Gabriel's song, 'Biko' was the first pop song that talked about the effects of apartheid, and in 1988 and 1990 he was involved in the Nelson Mandela concerts at Wembley. In 1988 Gabriel worked with Amnesty once again to set up the Human Rights Now! tour which featured Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Tracy Chapman and Youssou N'Dour.
In 1989, Gabriel visited the USSR to help launch Greenpeace and also contributed to the collaborative 'One World, One Voice' album. Following this, he initiated the 'Witness' programme, which arms activists from around the world with hand-held video cameras and other tools of mass communication to document Human Rights abuses. To date, they have supplied hundreds of cameras to over fifty countries, and have also set up a bi-weekly Witness web broadcast.
Photo credit: © NRK 2004
www.witness.org www.womad.org www.realworld.co.uk
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