Peter Gabriel is one of the co-founders of WITNESS, a human rights organization that provides support to advocacy groups and assists them in bringing exposure to their campaigns. One of their projects is providing groups with video equipment and access to media outlets so that they can broadcast their issues.

Peter’s music is extremely varied. One of his projects is WOMAD, an organization that supports and publicizes the work of non-Western musicians. This aspect of his oeuvre is not my favorite, and I can understand how some of his overplayed “hits” can be a bit grating after hearing them a million times; however, he has made some really amazing under-appreciated (at least by the masses) songs that are beautiful, wise, and compassionate. “Don’t Give Up” is a duet with Kate Bush, which is purportedly a song of support to the unemployed masses, and “Mercy Street” is a heartbreakingly gorgeous song about Anne Sexton. There are tons more, but these should be relatively easy to track down (they are both from So, which features “In Your Eyes,” which I can listen to pretty much endlessly, and “Sledgehammer” and “Big Time,” which I really never have to hear again, although I would happily do so in conjunction with watching their seminal videos.