{"id":31445,"date":"2025-02-13T18:02:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T18:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-13-1950-peter-gabriel-was-born\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T18:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T18:02:26","slug":"on-this-day-feb-13-1950-peter-gabriel-was-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-13-1950-peter-gabriel-was-born\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Feb. 13, 1950: Peter Gabriel was born"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-13\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, Feb. 13, 1950 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Gabriel<\/strong> was born in Surrey, England. The musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and activist gained fame as the original lead singer of the rock band <strong>Genesis<\/strong> and appeared on the band&#8217;s first six albums.<\/p>\n<p>He left the group in 1975 and went on to have a hugely successful solo career, releasing his self-titled debut that year, which featured the future classic &#8220;Solsbury Hill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His fifth studio album, 1986\u2019s <em>So<\/em>, became his bestselling album, moving over 5 million copies in the U.S. It featured the number one song \u201cSledgehammer,\u201d as well as songs like \u201cBig Time,&#8221; &#8220;In Your Eyes,&#8221; and \u201cDon\u2019t Give Up\u201d with <strong>Kate Bush.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gabriel is the winner of\u00a0eight\u00a0Grammy Awards, as well as 13 MTV Video Music Awards, nine of which went to the video for &#8220;Sledgehammer.&#8221; He\u2019s also a two-time member of the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame, being inducted in 2010 as a member of Genesis and in 2014 as a solo artist.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel released his first new album in 20 years, <em>i\/o<\/em>, in 2023, which earned two Grammys for engineering at February&#8217;s 67th annual\u00a0Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Feb. 13, 1950 &#8230; Peter Gabriel was born in Surrey, England. The musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and activist gained fame as the original lead singer of the rock band Genesis and appeared on the band&#8217;s first six albums. He left the group in 1975 and went<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-13-1950-peter-gabriel-was-born\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}